Sr. Network Architect
Location's: Sunnyvale, CA. & Spring, TX.
Contract Role.
Essential Responsibilities
- Work closely with business management to resolve business process and productivity needs and an appropriate technology strategy to support business goals.
- Analyze technical needs, requirements, and state of the network’s infrastructure design, integration, and operations.
- Work with technical management to architect networks that effectively reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements, and other technology parameters.
- Develop design principles, models, plans, internal standards, budgets, and processes based on industry best practices.
- Establish governing principles for network design and deployment.
- Participate in selection of networking technologies and products for implementation
- Must have strong communication skills, presentation skills, ownership acumen, and be able to deconstruct complex problems and projects into execution detail
- Lead teams of other network designers and engineers in developing detailed designs and quality-control mechanisms during implementation.
- Continually update understanding of business and technology status and objectives and respond to strategic design requests as the business evolves.
- In-depth understanding of business strategy and ability to communicate effectively effectively with senior business leaders and C-level executives.
Required Skills
- Expert knowledge and experience configuring and operating Cisco, Juniper, Brocade and Arista switches and routers. CCIE, CCNP and Juniper certifications preferred
- Expert in Carrier technologies including but not limited to: BGP, VRF Lite, ISIS, MPLS, BFD, CCC, GRE and RSVP
- Expert in Routing Protocols including but not limited to: IBGP, OSPF, VRRP, VARP, HSRP, and PBR
- Expert in administering firewall policies on multiple platforms: Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco & Fortinet
- Experience with configuration, installation, troubleshooting, and supporting network equipment, wireless access points, firewall policies across different platforms
- Detailed oriented and organized
- Excellent client relationship skills
- Excellent documentation skills using Microsoft Office and Visio
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work early mornings and/or late nights to execute critical network changes
- Ability to travel
- Ability to learn new and unfamiliar technologies and products, independently using documentation and online resources
- Works well in a fast pace environment with tight timelines for deliverable's
- CCIE Certification is preferred.