Our client is the leading provider of wireless telecommunications in the world. They build great mobile products that enable billions of people worldwide to enjoy more of what life has to offer. Due to solid and stable growth, we are seeking an Network Infrastructure Technical Lead to join our client as a permanent employee in the Alpharetta area of Atlanta, Georgia. The Network Technical Lead is responsible for 'owning' the end-to-end deployment architecture for a specific Service, service line, or group of services. The position will report to the Head of Infrastructure Operational Services. This role will primarily work with R&D, Software Architects and Project Managers in a virtual team and focus on designing, building and deploying high availability, robust, resilient and supportable solutions. With a focus on the infrastructure and operational elements of designing and deploying a service, examples could include ensuring services are highly available, have sufficient infrastructure capacity in place and are fully resilient across multiple data centers. Essential requirements include a proven track record of designing and supporting consumer internet infrastructure technologies, holding a role as a service architect or senior systems engineer. This role will operate within a highly matrix environment which requires strong stakeholder management and communication skills. Key Responsibilities Work closely with R&D, Software Architects and other Solution Architects in designing infrastructure architecture best practice methodologies, ensuring high availability for high volume internet services. Work as part of a virtual team of specialists responsible for defining and driving infrastructure technology standards across the Service Platforms team, including hosting, network, storage, virtualization and edge computing amongst others. Contribute as part of a "solution architect community", namely a strong virtual team of like minded individuals to help drive a philosophy of continuous service improvement in infrastructure technology design. Evaluate the latest technologies, with the goal of ensuring reliability and resilience while rapidly scaling the infrastructure to meet high volume demand. Understand business requirements and translate these into innovative technical solutions. Requirements Desired Skills & Experience Degree in Computing Science or equivalent 7+ years experience in relevant software or internet service industry with a service operational background. 5+ years as a Service or Solutions Architect or Senior Systems Engineer Originates new concepts; recognized technical or creative leader Experience in mentoring and coaching on infrastructure technologies Leads teams by example and encourages innovative thinking Strong analytical and strategic skills Excellent negotiation and communication skills Ability to succeed in a highly matrixed, virtual and international culture where change and speed are part of daily work. Experience in Internet technologies : horizontally scaled systems, high-throughput services Data Centre & Service Continuity Management. Operating Systems: Red Hat Linux, CentOS Application Servers and Open Source Components: Linux, JBoss. Apache Lucene, PHP, Data-Grid Technologies Storage Engineering: Network storage (NAS, SAN & Virtualized), Luster Database Admin : Oracle Coherence, MySQL, MSSQL (Other RDBMs technologies) Deployment Tools: CVS, Subversion, Clearcase and Puppet (at least one tool) Monitoring Tools: Nagios Professional, Cacti