Principal Architect (Infrastructure)

ADP is searching for a Principal Architect to join its team. This role can report out of our Alpharetta, GA, Miami, FL, Norfolk, VA or Roseland, NJ offices. This is a Hybrid role.
The ideal candidate for this position must have extensive experience with majority of the following F5 load balancers, Citrix Load Balancers, HAProxy, NGINX, API-Gateways, DNS, Content Delivery Networks (CDN), Web Application Firewalls (WAF), Digital Certificates, OpenSSL, Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure) and have a background in meeting security compliance such as HiTrust, ISO, and PCI. We want smart and flexible thinkers for whom problem solving is second nature. We encourage responsible creativity along with a personal commitment to our customers. Delivery of innovative web infrastructure solutions and tools from concept to operations with a focus on new technologies, particularly public and private cloud-based solutions, software defined infrastructure, and automation.
Unlock Your Career Potential: Technology at ADP. Do you enjoy exploring, identifying and inspiring the future of the workplace and the lives of millions of people? At ADP, the world's largest B2B cloud company, our Technology team is comprised of brilliant engineers, architects, data scientists, infrastructure experts, and more. We were first in our industry to offer a SaaS solution and continue to push the envelope utilizing the latest operating platforms to deliver the highly automated, intelligent and predictive solutions that are redefining what is possible. Named one of Forbes' "Most Innovative Companies" and one of Computerworld's "100 Best Places to Work in IT", we are committed to leading the way in product development and research, empowering you to bring to life the latest innovations that will forever change the way businesses manage their most vital asset, employees.
In this role you will be responsible for:

• Support adoption of new Web Services Security technologies and tools, recommend capability improvements, and assist in lab/QA deployments for technology trials.
• Participate in all facets of requirements gathering, prioritization, design, development, testing and execution (Proof of Concept) of Web Services engineering and security requests
• Work closely with senior IT and business leaders to align IT activities with business strategy & objectives.
• Build strong cross-organizational relationships; effectively work with staff across the IT organization and the broader enterprise to align the network security technologies with overall organization needs.
• Liaise with vendors and service providers to identify and select the products or services that best support the organization's global network strategies.
• Provide Infrastructure performance and capacity guidance by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing data and trends.
• Identify emerging network & web security solutions and in coordination with Global Security, evaluate products.
• Regularly communicate the status of web services and network security initiatives to IT leadership and internal business partners
• Be a mentor to other team members and lead through example by influencing the use of standards defined by the team and technical leadership.

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or Computer Science. Master's preferred.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressive experience with Web Infrastructure Architecture & Security Design
• Experience in Administration and management of F5 LTM & GTM Load balancers and/or HA Proxy, NGINX, Citrix load balancers
• Experience with Firewalls - Fortinet, Palo Alto a plus
• Experience with API Gateways. Web Application Firewalls and BOT Protection. F5 Shape experience a plus.
• Experience with Cloud Web Application Firewalls - Akamai Kona Defender, AWS WAF, Imperva, Cloudflare
• Understanding of PKI, Digital Certificates including but not limited to OpenSSL and Keytool commands for certificate creation, format conversion, export and import of certificates to the key stores, encoding and decoding of files, message level encryption as well Mutual Authentication
• Linux (SLES and RHEL)

We strive for every interaction to be driven by our CORE values: Insightful Expertise, Integrity is Everything, Service Excellence, Inspiring Innovation, Each Person Counts, Results-Driven, & Social Responsibility.
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: Preference will be given to candidates who have the following:

• Experience with Web Services, Firewalls Load Balancing, API Gateways, DNS, Web Application and API security
• Experience with F5/ Citrix Netscaler/ HA Proxy/ NGINX, Palo Alto/ Fortinet, Akamai/ Cloudflare/ Imperva
• Experience with BOT Detection platforms

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