Beacon Technologies is seeking a Technical Architect III for our client partner. This important technical and business role on our client's team is an exciting opportunity to adapt your experience to evolve and support our infrastructure, application, process, and security architectures. Candidate MUST be a WI resident or willing to relocate to WI at their own expense prior to starting the role. This position can work 100% remote (within the state of WI) or in the office.

• Position’s skill requirements and preferences with a minimum of 7 to 10 years of experience.
• Experience with WAN / LAN configurations using Cisco routers and switches. QoS, NAT, routing, split tunneling, static routes, EIGRP, and 802.1x.
• Experience with Firewall configuration, management, and support. Including firewall clusters, router-based firewalls, and VPN concentrators.
• Cybersecurity skills, including knowledge of Zscaler and Crowdstrike.
• Experience with Network monitoring tracking uptime, latency, and throughput.
• Analyze trends to build cases for change to enhance performance, scalability, and security.

Nice to Have Skills:

• Experience with cloud and on-premises based authentication, SSO, and implementing role-based security configurations.
• Experience with data security, governance, and education practices.
• Experience with scripting, version control, testing, containerization, and orchestration.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and support the organization's IT infrastructure.
• Provide architectural frameworks for information systems, security, and application delivery.
• Understand user and process requirements and ensure those requirements can be achieved through high quality deliverables.
• Align development plans to ensure effective integrations and automations among systems and the IT infrastructure.
• Monitor technological advancements to ensure continuous improvement and alignment with standards and emerging business requirements.
• Understand the interactions, data flows, and security between systems and services within the environment, and evaluate the operational impact of changes.
• Analyze and test systems to ensure performance, reliability, security, and scalability are aligned with standards.
• Maintain documentation while developing operational frameworks and proposals.
• This position requires multiple disciplines with experience in cloud services, on-premises datacenters, networking, data, communications, security, storage platforms, and system performance.
• Combined with technical expertise, this position requires frequent team and customer consultations on technical configurations and escalated requests, all contributing to the effective use of the architecture to enable our client’s business goals.
• Design an approved data integration that effectively benefits all customers.
• Collaborate with the development team to recommend an implementation methodology and ensure the data set being integrated meets all applicable security requirements.
• Recommend testing and performance routines and documentation details.
• Plan a multi-site network infrastructure change designed to improve bandwidth and cybersecurity and enable a cloud-based storage gateway for long term data archiving.
• Work with the PROTECT application team to evaluate performance outcomes and make recommendations where applicable.
• Project manage a multi-site infrastructure change that includes multiple router upgrades, split tunneling configurations, and select on-site servers for local and CJIS compliant data storage.
• Test to confirm that all hardware and software changes fully meet the customer’s expectations.
• Ensure all CJIS compliant data is encrypted during transit and at rest.
• Configure role-level access to support least privileged access to the environment and applications.
• Perform broad network performance and reliability monitoring. Trend the captured data to build a case for increased service levels derived from locations with network bandwidth and latency constraints.
• Prioritize recommendations based on available service options and budget. Where service updates are unavailable, recommend solutions that measurably improve performance and the user experience.
• Be a subject matter expert on escalated tickets from the help desk.
• Include the customer in all relevant communications and document resolutions on the support ticket.
• Implement routine evaluations of available and adopted cybersecurity solutions.
• Stay current with implemented feature sets and configurations and present recommendations that support change benefits and ROI.
• Configure, manage, support, and test systems that interact with and store CJIS data. Ensure that all related systems maintain compliance with CJIS security standards.
• Document design and implementation of the secure solution and represent our client on CJIS audits.

About Beacon Technologies

Are you looking to advance your career in information technology? Beacon Technologies offers career advancement opportunities, extensive training, and excellent benefits including paying for health and dental premiums for salaried employees. In addition to providing interesting opportunities, Beacon Technologies provides that old fashioned, personal touch, so you feel like a part of the Beacon team.

Beacon Technologies, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer with a functioning Affirmative Action Plan. It is the policy of Beacon Technologies, Inc. to ensure equal employment opportunity without discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, disability, marital status, citizenship, national origin, genetic information, ethnicity, ancestry, disability, medical condition, military and veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Beacon Technologies, Inc. prohibits any such discrimination or harassment.