Operations Infrastructure Architect

Type: Full Time
Location : San Jose, CA
Req # 31670

Primary Job Responsibilities

Analyze business requirements to determine system design, potential issues, and related cost for each project request. Contribute significantly to eBay’s feature prioritization and systems architecture.

Review Requirement Documents, and develop implementation strategies that preserve the integrity, availability, stability, and scalability of site systems and designs, consistent with cost (Capital and Labor) constraints.

Produce design documents to effectively handover system architecture to other Operations departments for successful systems implementation.

Demonstrate expertise and leadership in problem solving. Work with Business Units, Systems Administrators, Network Engineers, Applications Developers, Architects, Data Base Administrators, and Suppliers to prevent or solve difficult performance problems.

Interact with internal and external technical leaders to develop innovative solutions that meet market needs with respect to availability, functionality, performance, scalability, and reliability, realistic implementation schedules and adherence to architectural goals and principles.

Contribute to the selection, prototyping, and implementation of hardware, Operating Systems, applications, and technical solutions to business problems.

Job Requirements

Very strong leadership and ability to command respect at all levels of the organization.

Ability to quickly learn existing complex systems infrastructure.

Demonstrable analytical and problem solving skills, particularly as it relates to systems design. Experience in developing quality centric processes.

Facilitation and team-building skills at all levels. Ability to influence, train, mentor and leverage the skills of others, including business partners and technical team.

Excellent communication and relationship skills, especially the ability to articulate advanced technical topics (e.g. process scheduling, disk and file system I/O, layered software designs and implementations, kernel internals, TCP/IP communications at all levels); Ability to articulate business issues/concerns with staff, peers, superiors, and outside parties (e.g. vendors, partners).

Expertise breadth or depth in covering the following technologies: Solaris operations, programming services and internals (other unix variants are a plus); Linux; Win2K; Managing/Tuning Database servers; Database Design; Advanced Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM); VERITAS Cluster Server (VCS) or other High-availability service, especially in a SAN environment; design and operations of SAN environments; high availability strategies; TCP/IP and load balancing strategies; Applications design and implementation; C/C++ programming; J2EE; Messaging and Queuing; SMTP; Utility scripting (e.g. awk, sed, perl, bourne); Web services design

Internet service experience, especially on a large scale. Experience with high volume web systems or large transaction client-server systems.

Ability to thrive in a high-pressured but highly structured, customer-oriented environment. Ability to contribute to multiple projects/demands simultaneously.

Knowledge and experience using eBay's websites strongly preferred.

Experience interacting with vendors.

12+ years of professional related experience.

BSEE, CS or other relevant technical degree required.


Basic Qualifications This individual is required to demonstrate Technical Architectural Leadership, playing a vital role in the design, operation, implementation, and maintenance of eBay's web properties running in 24x7x52 environment. A 12 year history of technical preparedness for this role is required.


Education Bachelors Degree or Equivalent