Lead Network Architect/Engineer

Duties & Responsibilities:

- Leads a small team of Network Architects with day-to-day and long-term tasks.

- Set priorities and goals for the team and individuals. Provide constructive feedback to team members.

- Provides Level 3 & Level 4 technical support and administration for network-based operating systems such as Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, F5 load balancer, and Infoblox NIOS.

- Provides Level 3 and Level 4 technical support and administration for Routing and Switching, DNS and DHCP, and network load balancing

- Develop, define, and create best practices processes for Network infrastructure, Data Circuit technologies, and WAN design.

- Participate in a regular on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support

- Designs and administers security practices to meet various regulatory and policy requirements

- Acts as subject matter expert (SME) for all Network; Load balancer-related activities.; DNS and DHCP-related activities; and Wireless, Circuit, and WAN designs.

- Coordinate & participate in service/support needs with vendors,

technical support, application support, and infrastructure support.

- Test and deploy security patches to identity systems to help

maintain PCI, SOX, and other regulatory compliance requirements.

- Maintains, analyzes, and troubleshoots the various and compute

infrastructure to ensure all services are optimally structured to

provide defined service levels for:

o   Uptime

o   Stability

o   Performance

o   Quality

- Performs capacity planning and ensures that optimum levels are

achieved, sustained, and consistently improved.

- Develop automation scripts and custom scripts for support,

monitoring, and metrics gathering

- Assist with circuit orders and monthly billing reviews.

- Performs on-call support every 5th week.

Qualifications

- BA/BS in technology or related degree or equivalent technical

certification and experience

- At least 8 years of Network engineering/architecture and (level 3 & 4) technical support experience

- Experience leading other network professionals (assigning tasks, mentoring, etc.)

- Experience as a Network Architect in a large enterprise environment (global experience preferred)

- Strong technical experience with routers, switches, firewalls,

wireless, WAN design, SDWAN, DNS, DHCP, and Load Balancing

- Must have deep knowledge of BGP, and OSPF

- Experience performing capacity planning to predict usage trends for upcoming hardware/software needs

- Ansible for network automation

- Bash and/or Python scripting experience

- Ability to perform on-call support on a rotational basis

- Juniper certification is must.