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The United States Postal Service has the following challenging employment opportunity for a highly motivated and innovative individual. The Talent Acquisition Specialist position is available in Washington, DC. The successful candidate must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and experience the following requirements.

Location

US POSTAL SERVICE

Eagan IT/ASC

Eagan, MN 55121-9000

Position Information

TITLE: Infrastructure Architect I

GRADE: EAS-21

FLSA DESIGNATION: Exempt

OCCUPATION CODE:

NON-SCHEDULED DAYS: Saturday/Sunday

HOURS: 08:00 A.M. to 05:00 P.M.

SALARY RANGE: 86,420.00 – 100,795.00 USD Annually

BENEFIT INFORMATION: The salary will be based on previous experience, salary history, and current postal pay policies. We offer excellent benefits including health and life insurance, retirement plan, savings/investment plan with employer contribution, flexible spending, flextime scheduling of core work hours, annual and sick leave.

Background Check

The Inspection Service criminal background check is conducted using United States information resources only (e.g., FBI fingerprint check, state and county checks). A criminal background check involves a 5-year inquiry for any location where the individual has resided, worked or gone to school within the United States or its territories. As a result of this limitation, the criminal background checks of individuals who have not resided in the United States or its territories for the preceding 5-years may not be considered complete. The Inspection Service may be able to process inquiries for U.S. Citizens only, but only if their time spent out of the country was spent as: a trailing spouse or dependent of someone working for the U.S. government (military or civilian), a missionary, a student attending school in a foreign country, a Peace Corps participant, or as an employee of a U.S.-based employer/company. If the Inspection Service is unable to perform a complete background check because of residency outside the United States, such individuals will be ineligible for Postal employment.

Functional Purpose

Serves as an architect for cloud and on-premise infrastructure implementations and operation to ensure performance, reliability, and security of enterprise applications and systems. Implements and operates infrastructure technologies via planning, process, procedure, automation, and optimization.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

1. Serves as an architect on projects and initiatives for on-premise and cloud-based infrastructure solutions. Provides technical guidance and expertise to professionals and other stakeholders involved in the implementation and operation of cloud-based and on-premise infrastructure technologies and architecture to ensure developed solutions align with business organizational strategies and objectives.

2. Implements and operates enterprise-wide IT infrastructure solutions including: physical and virtual IT hardware environments and platforms, operating systems, databases, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, virtualization, storage, web and application servers, event streaming, APIs, containerization, and other IT software environments and platforms.

3. Implements and operates IT infrastructure solutions related to Cloud, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and on-premise to be used for applications, enterprise data, and other architectures.

4. Implements, maintains, and validates IT Infrastructure processes, procedures, standards, triage, designs, guides, operations, future strategies, and current state layouts using collaborative tools to share consistent knowledge, security, and reliability of IT Infrastructure technologies to stakeholders.

5. Provides technical assistance to and collaborates with stakeholders engaged in the implementation, operation, usage, and maintenance of infrastructure solutions. Escalates significant issues to appropriate personnel for awareness.

6. Identifies and resolves issues encountered on IT systems related to implementation, operation, and usage by leading the triage through complete technical assistance, guidance, advice, tuning, modifications, communications, and reporting.

7. Implements and monitors optimized performance measurements, resiliency, and security metrics. Implements and maintains processes for the evaluation of infrastructure effectiveness, including the defining and tracking of performance metrics. Develops, presents, and publishes deliverables (e.g., CPU/memory utilization) for broad stakeholder consumption.

8. Facilitates coordination and ongoing communications with contract vendors to ensure clear expectations, appropriate prioritization, consistent service, and to troubleshoot issues.

SUPERVISION

Manager unit to which assigned.

The United States Postal Service has the following excellent and challenging employment opportunity for highly motivated and innovative individuals. Successful candidates must demonstrate through a combination of education, training, and experience the following requirements:

Requirements

1. SPECIAL CONDITIONS: Applicant must submit to a Moderate Background Investigation (MBI) or Tier 2 investigation. This investigation requires, among other things, completion of a questionnaire and fingerprinting for a criminal records check. The investigation may require a drug test. The successful applicant will be required to meet and maintain the requirements of this level of background investigation while holding this position.

2. Ability to resolve incidents and restore network and IT infrastructure services through technical assistance, guidance, triage, coordination, collaboration, and configuration.

3. EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: Applicants must possess one of the following: 1. Bachelors or Graduate degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems, or a closely related field from a college or university accredited by a national or regional accreditation organization recognized and sanctioned by the U.S. Department of Education. OR 2. Possess four (4) years of equivalent professional experience managing enterprise-wide infrastructure technologies.

4. Knowledge of physical and virtual information system infrastructure sufficient to implement and operate infrastructure technologies, and the modernization of legacy infrastructure technologies.

5. Knowledge of cloud services (e.g., Amazon, Microsoft, and Google) sufficient to implement and operate cloud infrastructure services.

6. Ability to implement and operate the integration of on-premise and cloud technologies from providers (e.g., Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, HP, Linux, SAP) with existing organizational technologies, systems, or services.

7. Ability to implement and operate existing, new, and emerging infrastructure technologies by following processes, standards, and procedures to ensure consistency, security, and reliability.

8. Ability to implement and operate automation technologies to provision, patch, upgrade, deploy infrastructure across the enterprise.

9. Ability to implement and maintain processes used for evaluating infrastructure performance, including procedures to define performance metrics, analyze data, and improve infrastructure operability.

10. Ability to communicate, orally and in writing, sufficient to develop and present technical documentation; provide written and/or verbal guidance on technical issues; and prepare/publish/present recommendations and reports to all levels of management including executive leadership.

**This position requires an MBI clearance. This process can take up to 6 weeks from the date the offer letter is returned**

Reimbursement of relocation expenses will not be considered.

Qualified applicants must successfully pass a pre-employment drug screening to meet the U.S. Postal Service's requirement to be drug free.

Applicants must also be a U.S. citizen or have permanent resident alien status.

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