Role & responsibilities:

• Collaborate with team members, IT leadership, and enterprise stakeholders on cloud, data center, and premise network architecture for global scale; document problem statements, project requirements, and architecture details
• Lead the development and execution of an architecture roadmap for networking at global scale and drive ongoing efforts to ensure that the roadmap is aligned with business needs
• Provide clear and concise recommendations to remediate performance/scaling bottlenecks
• Create and update graphical and written network architecture documentation following industry best practices
• Maintain expertise in routing, switching, load balancing, wireless networking, and network security technologies to ensure that cost-effective solutions and processes are deployed and aligned with business and security needs
• Monitor network infrastructure and traffic; identify and document problem areas and recommend network infrastructure and performance improvements based on current and projected enterprise network environment
• Assess new technologies and best practices for adoption
• Drive standardization and automation in all aspects of the network environment
• Create and maintain graphical and written network architecture, infrastructure, and technical standards documentation
• Communicate with all stakeholders in a timely, clear, and concise manner
• Performs network troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose complex network problems
• Define network technology strategies, best practices, guidelines and standards based on emerging technologies
• Develop a high performing, highly available distributed mesh network infrastructure which is able to meet application roadmaps capable of adapting to security requirements
• Optimizing and evolving the current network for performance, resiliency and availability

Required Qualification:

• 7 years’ experience architecting scalable cloud, data center and office network infrastructure using public cloud technology and enterprise-class routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless networking devices
• 10 years’ experience with OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and multicast routing protocols, Voice Over IP, and QoS configuration on routers and switches in enterprise environments using IPv4
• 5 years’ experience with enterprise wireless networking solutions such as Aruba, Cisco, or Meraki
• Demonstrated experience with network configuration management and monitoring tools
• Demonstrated experience with access control technologies such as Cisco ISE and Aruba ClearPass
• Experience with documentation and presentation tools such as Google Suite, Microsoft Office, and Visio
• LAN/WAN experience including installation and troubleshooting of leased lines, TDM, FDM, WDM, DWDM, CWDM and multi-vendor networks that encompass switches, routers, firewalls, wireless, and NFV and VMware Virtualization technologies.
• Must maintain influential knowledge of industry trends and innovation in network technologies
• Experience with TCP/IP, Multicast, IPSec/SSL, SNMP, SMTP, E/IGRP, OSPF, RIP, BGP, IS-IS, SPBm 802.1Q, 802.1x NAC, and other communication and routing protocols
• Hands on experience with video surveillance, IP Telephony, VoIP, and teleconferencing and related equipment.
• Internetworking technologies include ATM, MPLS, POS, SRP/DPT, SONET/SDH, BroadBand Cable/xDSL, and SDN/SD-WAN.
• Hands on experience with Cisco ONS, CRS-1, ASR (XE,XR iOS),12000s, ISR, Nexus

Preferred Skills

• Advanced Cisco networking certification (CCNP R&S, CCIE R&S)
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python or shell scripting
• Proficiency with SD-WAN and network automation using orchestration platforms, scripting and REST APIs
• Strong interest in continuing networking education and certification