To be successful, this position will need to be constantly aware of future IT industry trends and design and implement systems that align this awareness with key business objectives. This high-level expertise must be combined with excellent hands-on implementation, deployment, and maintenance skills, with expertise in both Linux and Windows administration. A strong desire to mentor other members of the IT Architecture team is required.

Expertise in solutions research, proposal writing, project management, and technical documentation writing is critical to communicate with a) executive management during the project initiation and deployment stages, and b) Helpdesk staff during the go-live and ongoing maintenance stages of a project.

Projects on the horizon include centralized authentication (Active Directory), groupware, enterprise level storage (SAN), disaster recovery/backups, automated workstation management and inventorying, system monitoring, and wired and wireless networking.

Dealer.com has over 300 employees and is on a rapid growth trajectory. This position has the opportunity to build the enterprise-level IT architecture necessary to support future company growth, including significant employment increases and multiple physical sites. The ideal candidate would have demonstrated success in leading a company's IT Architecture through a similarly steep growth curve.

An eager, high-energy candidate is desired to jump right in, tackle many projects at once, and help take the IT organization to the next level.

Provide leadership to the IT Architecture team
Mentoring/training of IT Architecture and Helpdesk teams

Maintain knowledge of the IT industry landscape and future IT trends

Design IT systems to meet business objectives

Present proposals for large IT projects to executive team for review and sign-off

Deployment/rollout planning including impact assessments on other IT systems, Helpdesk, and end users

Project management for IT projects

Hands-on IT systems implementation for both Linux and Windows

Hands-on systems administration/maintenance for both Linux and Windows

The ideal candidate will be an experienced IT Architect, with 5-7 years experience in both Linux and Windows environments. Demonstrated training/mentoring experience is a plus. BS in IT field preferred, but comparable work experience will be considered.

Special Skills - Expertise with 5 or more skills required

Windows Server 2000/2003, Active Directory, RedHat Linux, Solaris, OSX Server, MySQL, apache, zenoss, perl, PHP, bash, Windows scripting (wscript, batch files), samba, DNS (Windows & BIND), NIS, LDAP, SNMP, enterprise wifi, routing, firewalls, CLI switch configuration, DHCP, openvpn, postfix, courier-imap, SAN/NAS technology, VMWare

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