Principal IT Architect, Sumo Logic

• You are a strong infrastructure engineer and architect who is passionate about scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-efficient infrastructure solutions
• You care about producing clean, elegant, maintainable, robust, well-tested code; you do this as a member of a team, helping the group come up with a better solution than you would as individuals and providing SME-level guidance and insight
• Ideally, you have experience with performance, scalability, and reliability issues of 24x7 uptime systems and solutions
• 10+ years of industry experience with a proven track record of ownership and delivery
• Experience developing scalable, secure, and resilient infrastructure architectures and implementations
• Experience in observability and cost-optimization in application, server, and cloud (AWS preferred) settings
• Experience working with Fortinet and Cisco network devices on a system administration and configuration level
• Experience with DNS optimization and consolidation (CloudFlare, AWS Transit Gateway, and Route53 preferred) as well as VPN management (FortiClient, ZScaler, and Pritunl preferred)
• Hands-on infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred) as well as CI/CD pipelines (Scalr and GitHub Actions preferred)
• Experience with writing business application processes and integrations at an enterprise level (Python preferred, Bash and Shell acceptable)
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience building robust and well-architected designs for enterprise scale systems with a focus on security and cost first architectures
• Experience and comfort with an on-call schedule for enterprise systems during daylight hours regional time

Desirable

• As a Principal IT Architect, you will actively contribute to, architect for, and lead IT in the design and development of new infrastructure automation projects
• You will be instrumental in helping us solve, by architecture and implementation, complex hybrid infrastructure problems among IT’s robust inventory of networking systems, applications, and cloud infrastructure
• You will work closely with a team of highly skilled individuals to deliver on high impact engagements at Sumo Logic, reporting directly to the Director of Infrastructure and Architecture in IT
• Designing and implementing complex and well-architected enterprise infrastructure solutions that support mid-to-large size organizations
• Work to improve existing IT-managed systems, solutions, and process through architectural reviews and design enhancement initiatives
• Experience in devops methodologies and practices as applied to infrastructure, cloud, application and network solutions
• Improve systems to provide strict compliance adherence, security guardrails, and cost-optimization
• Lead and contribute to the re-architecting of IT systems, solutions, and processes for more streamlined, scalable, and resilient implementations
• Design and manage the flow of data through corporate systems to ensure compliance, data integrity, and data security
• Deliver well-architected, end-to-end provisioning solutions to a growing enterprise organization across multiple environments and types of infrastructure
• Build strong partnerships and engage with other teams at Sumo Logic to create solutions that enable and benefit all parties and increased derived value