With more than 120 operations and approximately 20,000 employees worldwide, Precision Castparts Corp. is the market leader in manufacturing large, complex structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components, aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications. In addition, we are the leading producer of airfoil castings for the industrial gas turbine market. We also manufacture extruded seamless pipe, fittings, and forgings for power generation and oil & gas applications; commercial and military airframe aerostructures; and metal alloys and other materials for the casting and forging industries. With such critical applications, we insist on quality and dependability – not just in the materials and products we make, but in the people we recruit.

PCC is relentless in its dedication to being a high-quality, low-cost and on-time producer; delivering the highest value to its customers while continually pursuing strategic, profitable growth.

In 2016, Berkshire Hathaway, led by Chairman and CEO Warren E. Buffett, acquired Precision Castparts Corp.

Summary

The Senior Information Technology Infrastructure Architect (SITIA) is responsible for the design and architecture of Metals business initiatives. Identification and determination of standards for Cloud architecture and design, server, storage, and client computing. The Senior Information Technology Infrastructure Architect will ensure compliance with PCC Corporate IT Policy and compliance and reporting for Sarbanes Oxley.  The individual must possess excellent interpersonal skills and have a strong background in working with enterprise application administrators, business owners and senior management. The ideal candidate will have experience from both technical and operational architecture roles.

Primary Responsibilities

• Leads in the selection and tailoring of approaches, methods, and tools to support Cloud platform adoption and design infrastructure that is fit for purpose.
• Provide technical leadership on the design, documentation, and review of technology solutions that meet the business and IT needs of the organization and determining costs and benefits.
• Leads in data architecture design and review processes, including planning, and monitoring efforts, reviewing deliverables, and communicating to management.
• Leads in defining UNIX and Linux hardware and software requirements, acquisition, installation, and configuration.
• Leads in the documentation of activities, system changes, procedures, policies and standards for the UNIX and Linux architecture.
• Documenting your designs in a form suitable for a broad range of stakeholders - logical and physical architectures high level designs.
• Uses a rigorous approach to automated testing of infrastructure via integration tests, performance tests and acceptance tests and familiarity with the tools that support them.
• Define the operational processes to effectively manage the cloud environment.
• Articulate architectural differences between solution methods.
• Plans, leads, organizes, and controls projects related to selection, acquisition, development, and installation of IT systems for the enterprise.
• Analyzes emerging technologies and makes recommendations for adoption in data centers and client computing.
• Collaborate with other Systems Administrators who oversee the Data Center, VmWare, Oracle, Storage, Backup and SAP.
• Provide ongoing troubleshooting, support, and maintenance of production systems, including 24/7 on call coverage.

General Responsibilities

• Superior ability to prioritize work appropriately, be flexible and be well organized.
• Adapt daily to changing environment requirements and manage multiple tasks.
• Provide reporting for Sarbanes-Oxley audits and internal audits.
• May be required to work nights and weekends during (un)planned outages and other special circumstances, will need to respond to severe incident escalation on-call.
• Lead team initiatives and coach junior team members
• Assume total responsibility for work assigned and deliver on commitments.
• Preparing architectural design documentation, including diagrams and inventories
• Evaluating hardware sizing to meet application requirements.
• Document system design and related processes
• Advanced knowledge with Unix/Linux Windows Server administration and operation

Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s Degree preferred in a related field or recognized qualifications in Computer Science, Business, or a related discipline; equivalent experience and/or current certifications acceptable substitutes.
• Exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and the ability to work with all levels of the organization.
• 10 years plus experience in a senior IT Administration Role, or experience in an architectural role. in a major corporation or manufacturing firm
• Certifications in required areas a plus.
• Azure/AWS/Google Cloud Architecture experience or certification
• Strong scripting tool and script writing skills (VB Script, Perl, Windows Command, .NET, PowerShell)
• Excellent English communication and customer service abilities
• Experience with Dell/EMC storage technologies
• Some travel may be required to PCC facilities or vendor training.
• Excellent English communication and customer service abilities