Enterprise Infrastructure Director jobs in Pennsylvania

Company Description

As the global leader in health and wellness innovation since 1935, GNC motivates people to reach their goals with the most trusted and exciting selection of products in the industry.

As #TeamGNC, we work hard to ensure that our consumers come first. We are always cultivating and collaborating on new ideas to bring innovative solutions to the forefront and testing new solutions to translate goals into action. Our team members are advocates for change and innovation. 

There is no greater gift than good health and no greater satisfaction than helping others to achieve it. Be a part of helping others to Live Well!  

Job Description

The Sr. Enterprise Infrastructure Architect is the principal lead for the Sr. Enterprise Architecture Solutions Team in terms of designing and building on-prem and cloud-based solutions. The focus of the role is on the development of highly significant business outcomes for the enterprise. The Sr. Enterprise Infrastructure Architect will lead discussion and engagement sessions, will own solution development, architecture as well as implementation of all Azure solutions. The Sr. Enterprise Infrastructure Architect designs installs and configures production and non-production computing platforms to ensure availability, adequate capacity, good response time/system performance, and recoverability. The scope of technologies includes but is not limited to all Azure services, Windows servers, virtual infrastructure, storage, backup/recovery systems, and application presentation infrastructure. 

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Works with the Enterprise Infrastructure Team to develop and implement solutions across the enterprise.
• Plans, upgrades, and deploys systems using established standards.
• Designs systems to meet requirements and functional specifications and acts as the evangelist for Azure services.
• Serve as the escalation point for problems and incidents not resolved by the System Administrators and System Engineers.
• Develops ideas for implementation to improve overall service availability. 

• Works closely with various IT areas to design support transitions and streamline support tasks. 
• Provides training to System Engineers, Systems Administrators, and Service Desk technicians.
• Assists with task and project level planning and accurately reports the status of all assignments.

• Demonstrates deep engineering and development expertise on Microsoft Azure PAAS and IAAS stack of services on delivery engagements.
• Designs high performance, scalable and secure cloud native and hybrid cloud applications.
• Leverages Azure storage and messaging services such as Service Bus Topics, Event Hubs, Azure Blob and Table Storage, Azure SQL to support delivery engagements.
• Integrates identity management and modern authentication and authorization protocols such as OIDC, OAuth 2.0 using Azure Active Directory, Azure AD B2B and ADFS.
• Installs, configures, manages, patches, and secures hardware/software according to established standards and compliance requirements.
• Develops ideas for implementation to improve overall service availability.
• Develops relevant metrics (KPI/SLA/SLO) to identify improvement opportunities and implements processes to improve those metrics.
• Actively develops and maintains Standard Operating Procedures, processes, and troubleshooting documents.
• Additional duties as assigned

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Responsible for supervising multiple projects.

Qualifications

• Associates or Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field; or an equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the key accountabilities of the job required

• Advanced degree (MBA, Master’s) preferred
• Azure Certifications preferred
• 8 years of relevant experience in cloud architecture and implementation required
• 5 years in a leadership role (direct or indirect)
• Prior managerial/supervisory experience preferred
• Container experience such as Kubernetes preferred
• Certificates management
• Windows Server OS (Various Version) and Microsoft Active Directory including DNS, LDAP, etc.
• System Backup and Recovery (Veeam)
• Experience with Virtual Infrastructure technologies (VMWare and Hyper-V)
• Experience with Storage Infrastructures (HP/3PAR/PURE)
• Experience with System Security Design and Principles
• Demonstrated experience with Scripting and Powershell
• High degree of proficiency MS Office Suite, Outlook & Internet applications
• Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, budgeting, project management (from conception to completion), & planning skills
• Strong verbal and written communication skills (including analysis, interpretation, & reasoning)
• Solid understanding and application of mathematical concepts
• Ability to develop and maintain collaborative relationships with peers and colleagues across the organization, as well as, internal and external clients
• Ability to work well autonomously and within a team in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
• Ability to work with and influence peers and senior management
• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines and reporting

Additional Information

PHYSICAL ASPECTS/WORK ENVIRONMENT:

• Regularly required to stand; walk; sit; use hands or fingers to handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl; and talk or hear. 
• Regularly/Occasionally lift and/or move up to 50 pounds. 
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.
• The noise level in the work environment is usually low/moderate.

* Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals to perform the essential functions.

GNC Holdings LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer