Marriott International - Columbia, SC
posted 5 months ago
The Architect, Network DevOps will lead the transformation of the strategy and platforms for next-generation operations across Marriott's global networks, including Property Networks, Datacenter/Cloud Networks, and Corporate Networks. This role requires close collaboration with a matrixed team of network architects to drive the adoption of DevOps practices and operating models globally. The Architect is accountable for establishing management-level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines, other MI teams, outsourcing vendors, and external suppliers to define and implement the Network DevOps roadmap, building and enforcing the standards defined in it. Additionally, this position defines and supports service delivery and operational support standards for Next Generation Operations, partnering with global technology peer teams to meet service level requirements and resolve service delivery issues across the portfolio. The Architect, Network DevOps brings a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex problems, driving the engineering and operations for network software development, automation, provisioning, performance management, and tools/APIs for self-service across the globe. This key position is responsible for ensuring that overall requirements by customers and peer delivery and operations groups are met. Accountabilities include, but are not limited to, managing relationships with continental IT executives, property LAN service providers (LSPs), end-user computing services delivery, hosting services, enterprise availability, server, storage, virtualization, inclusive of security/privacy, risk management, and disaster and crisis management. The successful candidate will provide architecture leadership for all phases of the infrastructure lifecycle from ideation through execution, and ongoing management and support, with specific attention to identifying opportunities for proactive and reactive (self-healing) automation solutions across the network. They will develop and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize, optimize, and automate the network designs, tooling, and operations to reduce implementation cycle times, eliminate service downtime, optimize performance, and ensure that all security and compliance requirements are fully governed.