Solution Architect

Business Unit:Cubic Transportation SystemsCompany Details:When you join Cubic, you become part of a company that creates and delivers technology solutions in transportation to make people’s lives easier by simplifying their daily journeys, and defense capabilities to help promote mission success and safety for those who serve their nation. Led by our talented teams around the world, Cubic is committed to solving global issues through innovation and service to our customers and partners.
We have a top-tier portfolio of businesses, including Cubic Transportation Systems (CTS) and Cubic Defense (CD). Explore more on Cubic.com.Job Details:

Solution Architecture and DevOps: 

• Provide advanced solution architecture design and engineering review for customer systems and services requirements definition, architecture development, and system level design and integration for computing, data storage, data retention and recovery needs of business-critical applications and functions 
• Participate in Engineering working groups, and ensure that the technology organization is aligned to corporate technology directions 
• Assist application development life cycle by serving as a general operational infrastructure product SME to help identify and qualify infrastructure improvement opportunities that will enhance a systems stability, availability, TOC, and resiliency. 
• Provide advanced technical direction and leadership to the lower-level systems administrators and engineers through the planning, implementation and support processes 
• Lead requirements derivation and analysis, system specification, system design, functional partitioning, and system architecture definition 
   

Crisis, Incident and Problem Management: 

• Provide Infrastructure Architecture leadership to the team into the crisis, incident and problem management processes 
• Provide updates to the Crisis Manager, Stakeholder Manager, Cubic Managers and the Client as required 
• Participate in Infosec and DevSecOps working groups. 

Change and Release Management: 

• Participate in the deployment of new releases into all Environments in conjunction with the Engineering team, the Release and Change Managers to ensure deployments are well planned, documented and executed and result in successful outcomes with robust back out plans where appropriate 
• Interface and coordinate tasks with internal and external technical resources. Collaborates with Project Managers and technical directors to provision estimates, develop overall implementation solution plan, and serve as a lead as required, to implement the installation, customization, and integration efforts 

Job Requirements and Skills: 

Shift Timings - 6 AM - 3 PM IST

Work Mode- Minimum 4 days work from office in a week
 

Personality and Soft Skills: 

• Strong verbal, written communications and interpersonal skills.  Ability to interact professionally with internal and external customers, and technical and non-technical persons. 
• Adherence to change control policies and documents their work regardless to time pressures. 
• Must be able to work under project deadlines pressures, and associated schedule constraints  
• Must be calm and able to stay focused under pressure 
• Responsible, organised, logical thought process 
• Have a positive attitude and enthusiasm to achieve business deliverables 
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills a must 
• Must be able to travel to Cubic offices and customer sites as needed 

Knowledge and Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science or related DevOps disciplines, or equivalent experience 
• 5-10 years’ experience in a high-performance datacenter with direct support, systems engineering, design and architect responsibilities. 
• 24x7 operations experience required. 
• Strong DevOps skills and hands-on tooling experience 
• Highly developed understanding of Virtualisation Technologies including Windows/Unix/VMWare 
• Advanced knowledge and experience working with high transaction, resource intensive OLTP and batch process databases to include system performance monitoring and tuning for optimal performance. 
• Advanced knowledge of high-availability and redundancy technologies. 
• 3+ years in architecture and design of high performance, highly available solutions 
• 3+ years’ experience working with storage solutions and related hardware such as SAN and iSCSI. 
• 3+ years with high availability solutions such as MSCS or Oracle RAC 
• Advanced knowledge of backup, restore and disaster recovery planning and deployment. 
• Knowledge of network, security and IP Telephony management systems 

Tooling and Technical Skills: 

• Azure Cloud Networking (i.e. Load Balances, Firewalls, Virtual Networks, NSGs, vWAN and ExpressRoute), Azure Resource Manager (ARM), Azure Kubernetes Services (AKS) 
• Terraform, Ansible, Visual Studio, Docker, Git 
• NGINIX, SNMP v3, App Dynamics, SolarWinds 
• Linux, Windows, Oracle 
• PCI DSS compliance 
• Thales HSMs (Hardware Security Modules) 

 
General Duties and Responsibilities: 

• Comply with Cubic’s Quality Management System  
• Comply with Cubic Occupational Health, Safety and Environment policies and procedures  
• Comply with security in accordance with established policies and procedures of the organisations  
• Comply with Cubic Human Resources Procedures  
• Other duties as requested  

Conditions of Employment:   

• The successful outcome of a National Police Check  

Worker Type:Employee