US OPPORTUNITY SACRAMENTO, ARIZONA & NEVADA
Responsibilities
- Lead up the effort to architect and craft the next generation WAN to meet the ever evolving workload needs due to organic growth and acquisitions
- Partner with business units to best understand the organization’s needs and plan, design, implement & support production data centers around the globe.
- Deliver architecture, design and configuration standards
- Work with multi-functional organizations to integrate newly acquired WAN and Internet infrastructures into the primary enterprise network, and successfully support our 24/7 engineering farms, business applications and on-prem infrastructure & cloud
- Design, Configure, Implement and Support connectivity from leading Cloud providers (AWS, Azure) to on-prem, Cloud Data Center via MegaPort optimized per business requirements.
- Develop WAN as a service including all aspects of the catalog. Example monitoring package, roadmaps, SOPs.
- Adopt automation workflows to the WAN service
- Plan, design and coordinate the implementation of WAN or Internet related activities in support of defined requirements generated by business and growth demands
- Validate project requirements, define project scope, develop project schedules and produce detailed designs for assigned projects
- Produce work breakdown structures that demonstrate understanding of proposed changes and how the change will be executed with minimal service impact
- Performs analysis and diagnosis of highly sophisticated networking problems related to WAN or Internet
- You’ll build simulated networks in test labs to resolve highly significant problems and compatibility issues
- Prepare and maintain up to date documentation details of the deployed solutions
- Plans and executes highly sophisticated network upgrades and migration activities
- Assists with deployment and strategy of tools and related Network Management Systems and Cloud Computing
- Improve QoS for network in all data centers
- Manage network uptime by auditing & enhancing network monitoring
- Management of multiple high-visibility, high-impact projects simultaneously
- Proactively identify gaps, risks and issues and navigates organizational structure to resolve them
- Provides mentorship for existing network team members as appropriate
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with proven track record in network engineering support environment, including planning , design and implementation of global infrastructures
- Solid experience in network and infrastructure operations, management and implementation, SDP, SDWAN, VM, supporting On-prem, DevOps, and CloudOps infrastructures.
- Experience and expertise in WAN network architecture and design in highly available, mid to large-scale, multi-site, international environment
- Strong WAN background with minimum one full cycle SD WAN project implementation experience.
- Experience in Aryaka Managed SD-WAN infrastructure implementation, Cisco ACI Solution architecture, Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) for the virtual network edge, Cisco Application Policy Infrastructure Controller (APIC), and Cisco Application Virtual Switch (AVS) for the virtual network edge is a plus.
- Expert knowledge in building hybrid cloud approach
- SSL Certificate Implementation/configuration
- Strong knowledge and experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, routing, QOS, VLAN, ACL, NAC.
- Expert knowledge and experience VPN encryption technologies, modern switching platforms, and firewalls including policy implementation and capacity management
- CCIP/CCNP, CCIE, Cloud certification required
- Expert knowledge of Cisco equipment is highly desirable
- Virtualization technologies, both networking (VRF, VDC, EVPN) and compute (VMware, Openstack)
- Understanding high performance computing (HPC) environments
- High level internetworking problem solving in an enterprise level network environment
- Expert knowledge and experience with routing protocols and traffic engineering
- Experience with low-level infrastructure testing and troubleshooting tools including packet capture devices, network
- equipment debug and diagnostics, (Wireshark, NetFlow)
- Experience in security-policy implementation and how to manage design and support of network environments to maintain policy integrity
- Experience in improving network monitoring in order to avoid service disruptions.
- Proven ability to manage mission-critical, highly visible infrastructure projects to completion.
- Experience in Telephony & understanding of various standards, govt regulations is a plus
- Automation experience is a plus
- Knowledge of network management, network availability and capacity management
- Expertise in collaborating with carriers to run circuit delivery, problem solving and migration
- Understanding and practical experience in Network design and architecture, Cloud based services (PaaS, IaaS, SaaS), Virtualization / Containerization, Mobile security (MDM, MAM), Encryption / PKI, Database security, Application / API security, Identity Management (IDM), and ‘Infrastructure as code’ management processes is a plus
- Good verbal, written, social, and presentation skills
- Be creative and have initiative
- Computer Science degree
- At least 7-8 years of experience in a multiple operating system environment and working with different areas of networking.