Job Description

Posting Open Until Filled

Our culture in the Department of Atlanta Information Management (AIM) is rooted in our shared core values: Transparency, accountability, collaboration, service, and integrity. The AIM team understands our role as a strategic partner to departments throughout the city; we strongly believe technology has the potential to elevate the City of Atlanta and is essential to moving the mayor’s vision forward. With the effective use of technology, we become more efficient, more effective, and innovative. We become more capable of enhancing the experience of all affected by City government. AIM’s mission is to advance Atlanta by being consistent in the delivery of innovative, reliable, secure, and user-focused technology solutions.

Our team members exemplify the shared core values above, so if you have these characteristics, consider joining us as we work to advance technology for the city, its esteemed citizens, and valued visitors.

High level position responsible for designing and managing the overall structure and strategy of the city enterprise network and systems. Develop long-term IT strategies that support business objectives and growth, including the adoption of new technologies. Responsible for system designing and creating high-level designs for IT systems, including hardware, software, network, and data architectures, ensuring they meet performance and security requirements ensuring seamless integration of new technologies into existing systems, minimizing disruptions and maximizing functionality. Provide backup support for other members of the OIT Engineering team.

Primary Areas Of Responsibility

Overall/Enterprise Network Strategy and design

Enterprise Routing/Switching

Firewall Administration

Design and Install

Cloud network architecture

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (IT Architect)

Develops and maintains the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical network architecture.
Provides technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision making down to the project planning level.
Provides leadership, guidance, and technical assistance to other Network Engineers.
Leads the design, development, and implementation of highly complex and highly available LAN/WAN systems in accordance with the City of Atlanta’s goals and objectives.
Serves as the lead network engineer, technical architect/design expert and implementation expert for networking components in an integrated enterprise LAN/WAN environment.
Provides expert level production support as the Tier 3 escalation point of contact.
Collaborates with contractors, vendors, and other internal departments as needed to resolve complex technical issues.
Serves as the subject matter expert (SME) on complex projects that have a network infrastructure component.
Works within established change management policies to ensure awareness, approval, and success of changes made to the network infrastructure.
Responds to, updates, and resolves incident tickets and tasks as assigned.
Maintains and updates technical skills by participating in educational opportunities such as training/certifications, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and/or participating in professional organizations.
Recommends and documents enhancements and optimization to enterprise networking systems and infrastructure.
Configures, maintains, troubleshoots, and upgrades various networking components and services as required.
Racks, wires, and mounts networking components as needed.
Documents networking environment using industry standard tools (Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Word, etc.).
Provides after-hours production support on a rotational basis.
Performs other duties as assigned.

Responsibilities

Minimum Qualifications – Education and Experience

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering (equivalent professional experience may be considered for substitution for the required degree on an exception basis).5 years of specific network experience.

Preferred Qualifications - Education & Experience & Certifications

Master’s degree in computer science or engineering (equivalent professional experience may be considered for substitution for the masters degree on an exception basis) with 5-8 years' of directly related professional work and certification in Network and or IT Architect (CCIE)

Essential Capabilities And Work Environment

Required physical, lifting, and sensory capabilities are requirements to perform the job successfully. Typical environmental conditions associated with job.

On-call availability for rotating schedule

City of Atlanta jobs

Information Technology (IT) Architect