Principal Architect

Job Description

Delivering first-in-class content in the best and most engaging ways possible while equipping our people to do so requires an incredible amount of talent… and technology. The technology and operations group covers things like the company's data strategy, content delivery systems, master control operations, broadcast engineering, advertising technology, and the technology platform for HBO Max, while also supporting the everyday underpinnings of our company. Join our community of extraordinary team members who are truly building the tools that will run the future of entertainment.

Job description:

This position is responsible for the architectural design, build, stability, integrity, and efficient operation of the large scale production operations platform architectures that support WarnerMedia's News, Sports and Entertainment websites. The Applications Architect must possess very strong technical and problem solving skills. The Architect must possess the ability to work under pressure with aggressive deadlines, be able to prioritize projects, and maintain focus. The individual must have a positive attitude, strong leadership and collaboration skills, have a passion for lean process and agile methodology, should be innovative, creative, quick thinker, fast learner, and a team player with a strong customer service focus.

Principle Responsibilities:
• Collaborate with Cloud Architecture, Network Engineering, and Application Operations teams on scalable, performant platform solutions that meet business requirements
• Collaborate with development teams and business clients in ''whiteboarding'' systems design, capacity/redundancy planning and product/platform architecture deployments
• Improve performance and scalability in system environments by researching, evaluating and recommending new technology products and services
• Create and update system and procedural documentation.
• Continuously updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities, open source user groups, reading professional publications and white papers. Stays abreast of current and cutting edge Internet operations best practices, establishes personal professional network related to systems architecture trends, gives presentations to technical and business teams
• Schedules installations/upgrades and maintenance in accordance with established IT policies and procedures and business requirements. Works closely with business owners on change and maintenance windows/requests.
• Champion tools recommended by Cloud Architecture. Work with business groups to understand tools they use and or seek.
• Form policies and procedures within cloud operations to meet ISO standards.

Qualifications:
• Tactful, resourceful and possess an agile, ''DevOps/SRE'' approach to systems engineering
• Four-year college diploma or university degree in computer science or software engineering or equivalent practical work experience.
• 5+ years of verifiable experience in System administration, architecture and implementation for enterprise level organizations.
• Works well with others in an integrated team environment.
• Must be able to mentor and train other system engineers on architecture best practices and operations related issues.
• Knowledgeable regarding emerging technologies in the digital media marketplace.
• Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform, and/or Azure.
• Tools knowledge – FoxPass, AlertLogic. CloudHealth
• Security Authentication – SAML, IAM, Okta, MFA, Key rotation.
• Self-motivated and goal oriented, who can adhere to departmental processes and procedures and able to work with minimal supervision.
• Able to multi-task and manage changing and possibly conflicting priorities to meet demands of internal and external customers.
• Excellent analytical, communication (verbal and writing) skills, process-oriented.
• Must be able to communicate effectively with management, multiple business units and product development teams.

Jobcode: Reference SBJ-dy75eq-3-143-17-128-42 in your application.