Core Responsibilities:
1. Provides the architectural leadership in shaping strategic infrastructure technology programs and planning
2. Leverages knowledge capital available through subscription research services and critical resources for related knowledge capital inclusive of blogs podcasts webinar etc.
3. Produces technology roadmaps defines reference and implementation architectures and develops proof-of-concept prototypes and initial implementation models.
4. Ensures implementation solutions support architecture objectives (availability scalability performance security etc.) as appropriate and monitors implementation activities to ensure architecture and design principles are upheld.
5. Utilizes partnership skills especially in the areas of persuasion influence conceptualizing solutions and problem solving.
6. Communicates complicated technical concepts effectively to a broad group of stakeholders.
7. Establishes relationships with IT leaders architects and technical specialists for the purpose of advancing proposed architectural solutions and ensuring availability of infrastructure technologies and support.
8. Possesses deep understanding of the competitive landscape and corporate and business unit strategies to provide context for architectural decision making.
9. Identifies and mitigates risks of introducing architecture technology enhancements ensures that IT project teams comply with IT Governance policies and procedures.
10. Participates in special projects and performs other duties as assigned.
11. Defines enterprise DDI architectures including authoritative recursive and hybrid DNS models.
12. Provides architectural leadership for global traffic management (GTM) solutions including Akamai GTM and their integration with enterprise DNS platforms.
13. Establishes standards for DNS DHCP and IP address management (DDI) resiliency availability scalability and performance to support critical enterprise and customerfacing applications.
14. Designs and governs DDI architectures including DNS views zone design delegation models DHCP scopes IPAM workflows and rolebased access controls.
15. Ensures DDI and traffic management architectures support disaster recovery georedundancy application failover and automationdriven recovery scenarios.
16. Defines patterns for secure DNS architectures including DNS security controls segmentation and integration with enterprise security and zerotrust initiatives.
17. Leads the integration of DDI platforms with automation and orchestration tools enabling APIdriven DNS/IP lifecycle management and infrastructureascode workflows.
18. Partners with network application cloud and security teams to ensure DDI designs align with enterprise reliability security compliance and operational governance objectives.
Qualifications:
Minimum of eight years related work experience with at least three years of technology architect experience.
Undergraduate degree or equivalent combination of training and experience. Graduate degree preferred.
Deep understanding of DNS architecture DDI services (DNS DHCP IPAM) and enterprise DNS operations.
Architectural experience designing and governing DDI platforms for enterprisescale deployments.
Experience designing and governing global traffic management solutions including Akamai GTM and their interaction with enterprise DNS ecosystems.
Strong knowledge of DNS automation APIdriven provisioning and lifecycle management in largescale environments including experience with IaC pipelines.
Deep understanding of how DDI and GTM integrate with application network cloud and security architectures.
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is not offering visa sponsorship for this position.About Vanguard
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How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning collaboration and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
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