What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Architect position at Saxon Global?
Role- Network Architect
Rate - $90 / hr on C2C
Location- 2 MetroTech Center, 3rd Fl Brooklyn New York 11201
Work Auth- All Except H1B
Client - NYC Govt.
Dept of Education : 2 MetroTech Center, 3rd Fl Brooklyn New York 11201
Domain - Telecommunication
Network Architect
On-site Downtown Brooklyn, NY 11201
35 hours / week (mandatory 1 hour lunch break)
12 months (Extendable)
Dept of Education : 2 MetroTech Center, 3rd Fl Brooklyn New York 11201
Overview :
The Internet and Data Center Technologies Team is responsible for supporting our data center network infrastructure that hosts our applications and services. This infrastructure provides internet connectivity for all teachers, students, and administrators citywide within our organization. Providing, supporting, and designing network connectivity for all our applications and services that
travel the network infrastructure is critical for the business and day-to-day operations.
Our unit is also tasked with ensuring there is enough bandwidth to be consumed by the user community. With the increasing demands on the network, bandwidth is being consumed at a high rate. These critical positions will be responsible for designing, engineering, and implementing data center network upgrades that will support the Internet bandwidth initiatives and expansion of the hosting infrastructure. Additionally, the resource will be responsible for planning and migrating network connectivity from legacy infrastructure to the new and decommissioning end-of-life equipment. We require IT professional services to support the Internet and Data Center Technologies Team with above projects and any support escalations related to them.
High-Level Project Goals :
- Design network architecture to support the expansion of the data center network.
- Deploy data center network infrastructure (Cisco - ACI, Nexus switches, ASR routers, FirePower firewalls, VMware NSX, F5 Load Balancers) including racking and cabling.
- Configure and test the network infrastructure.
- Migration of legacy network connectivity to new infrastructure.
- Decommission legacy network equipment.
Responsibilities :
Network Architect to work with Internet and Data Center Technologies team to evaluate current data center infrastructure and develop architectures to replace legacy infrastructure and expand the network capacity. In addition, the selected candidate will help deploy the new infrastructure and migrate the connectivity. Plan and coordinate network migration activities with various stakeholders. The Network Architect will be responsible for :
Mandatory Qualifications :
The successful candidate must have minimally achieved the following level of experience :
Preferable Qualifications :
Salary : $90
