What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Architect position at LingaTech?
Location: Richmond, VA
Position Type: Hybrid, required onsite for quarterly meetings
Contract Length: 8 months
Position Overview:
This role involves strategic planning, design, and implementing secure, efficient network solutions aligned with organizational goals, providing documentation, guidance, and best practices for future network enhancements.
Duties:
Position Type: Hybrid, required onsite for quarterly meetings
Contract Length: 8 months
Position Overview:
This role involves strategic planning, design, and implementing secure, efficient network solutions aligned with organizational goals, providing documentation, guidance, and best practices for future network enhancements.
Duties:
- Document comprehensive network designs that integrate multiple network technologies, such as LANs, WANs, wireless networks, and VPNs,to support the organizations business operations and communication needs.
- Design and document the entire network implementation process
- Monitoring network performance and taking follow-up steps to resolve latency issues and security concerns
- Performing regular network upgrades to create greater efficiency
- Creating documentation throughout the design and deployment process for future reference
- Develop patterns and standards for all network designs
- The ability to analyze data traffic and system performance to determine future upgrades.
- Work with our IT staff and thirds-party equipment and software vendors to ensure the network needs are met.
- Research new technologies and solutions, and asses new technologies for adoption
- Define multisite network operations and software applications.
- Train, mentor, and transfer skills to the extended team.
- Works on highly complex projects that require in-depth knowledge across multiple specialized architecture domains and networking layers.
- Aligns architecture strategy with business goals.
- Defines, explains, and advocates technology strategy.
- 7 years of experience in technical design and architecture around network equipment and network software systems.
- 7 years of experience in handling issues that arise with large networks, prioritize network security and compliance, understanding security protocols, firewalls
- 7 years of experience with Network Security Frameworks and Best Practices, Cloud Networking and Virtualization Technologies, Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructure and Protocol
- 7 years of experience with Project data and documentation tools & experience with developing network design documentations and presentations using VISIO
- 5 years of experience in design, build and maintain multi-tier networks
- 5 years of experience with Advanced Network Design and Architecture planning, proficiency in Network Simulation and Modeling Tools
- 5 years of experience conducting site assessment of current remote site WAN/LAN/WLAN environments, identifying network problem areas and develop hierarchical based network design
- 5 years of experience designing and implanting multiple global Azure cloud solutions to support revenue generation. Worked to move key servers to cloud based services.
