Hosting Architect in Lake Forest, IL at Reynolds Consumer Products

Job Title: Hosting Architect  

City: Lake Forest / State: Illinois                                                   

Job Description

Join Reynolds Consumer Products…a world of opportunities! At Reynolds Consumer Products we are passionate about achieving results and have fun winning as a team! We are committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace environment in which individual differences are recognized, respected and appreciated.

At Reynolds, we provide amazing job opportunities for growth with competitive salaries and benefits in an exciting, dynamic, fast-paced, and fun workplace environment. Are you looking to build a strong career? Then we have an opportunity for you! We are searching for a Hosting Architect to join our team in Lake Forest, IL. (Hybrid if candidates live within 50 miles)

We will consider 100% remote for candidates located in the following states: AR, GA, IL, KY, MD, NC, OR, SC, TX, UT VA, WI.

Your Role:

As a Hosting Architect, you will work in close collaboration with other engineering development teams, partnering with them and other business / technical leaders to facilitate the development of underlying hosting infrastructure that supports their application’s needs.

You will have the opportunity to:

• Provide vision and direction for the future of our Cloud and On-Premise Data Infrastructure.
• Act as trusted advisor on internal strategic initiatives by providing objective, practical and relevant ideas, insights and advice.
• Design scalable and highly available hosting solutions and develop comprehensive platform modernization and migration strategies for existing IaaS/PaaS/Container Services environments.
• Create solutions using automation tools such as PowerShell DSC.
• Document current systems and draft and maintain policies, guidelines, and standard operating procedures.
• Document hosting requirements and produce infrastructure build plans.
• Troubleshoot application/database performance issues related to connectivity, access, and security and create topology diagrams for applications and hosting platforms.
• Envision, develop, prove, and recommend innovative solutions meeting current and future business requirements.
• Define, document, publish and governance of platform hosting standards.
• Implement process improvements, methodologies, and/or strategies based on organization goals and business needs.
• Design data recovery and backup system and define data retention, backup, and recovery methods and plans.

Ultimately, you will be responsible for design and build of Reynolds server environment on-premise and cloud-based solutions ensuring that they are reliable, secure and delivered on time.

You will love it here if…

• You are a creative and dynamic problem‐solver
• You are committed to excellence
• You thrive in a fast paced and high‐energy environment
• You are creative and are comfortable inventing and deriving new ways of doing business

We need you to have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years’ experience as a VMware Architect / Administrator for a large enterprise
• 5+ years’ experience with architecture, design, configuration, and deployment within the AWS platform 
• 5+ years' experience with Windows Server OS, Linux OS, Web SSO, SAML, OAuth2, and Active Directory 
• Strong understanding of networking (OSI Model, Designing Topologies, Routing Protocols, virtual switches native to VSAN)
• Strong working knowledge and hands on experience with AWS EC2, S3, RDS, Cloudwatch, Load Balancers, VPCs, and Transit Gateways

Icing on the cake:

• Certified AWS Solutions Architect, preferred
• Knowledge of Ignio and Centilytics, preferred
• Demonstrated experience configuring and upgrading single ESXi hosts to 2-node VSANs and multi-node VSAN Clusters, preferred

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Drive Your Career across a world of opportunities!  

For applicants or employees who are disabled or require a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process, you may request assistance by emailing us at Recruitment@ReynoldsBrands.com.

No recruiter calls or emails please.

Reynolds Consumer Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer EEO AA M/F/Vet/Disability.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their age, race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, genetics, or disability.

Reynolds Consumer Products is an Equal Opportunity Employer that complies with the laws and regulations set forth in the following EEO is The Law Poster: http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/pdf/eeopost.pdf

The Pay Transparency Regulations Frequently Asked Questions can be found on this link: 

Pay Transparency Regulations Frequently Asked Questions | U.S. Department of Labor (dol.gov)

The poster and the supplement can be found on this link.

http://www.dol.gov/ofccp/regs/compliance/posters/ofccpost.htm