Sr Network Architect
Expert Technical Solutions
- Norcross, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Supervise and mentor a small team of Network Engineers
- Review and adjust accordingly team member’s plans and configuration scripts, with extreme accuracy
- Assess the future and current needs and delegate out tasks to team members and follow up/review for completeness
- Discover, assess, design, and implement as it relates to network initiatives
- Perform diagnostic analysis of the network system, identify possible faulty devices, troubleshoot network problems and outages and prepare necessary documentation detailing actions taken
- Ensure all network devices are monitored with necessary services along with configurations backed up
- Lead responsibility for networking projects
- Participates in new technology or solutions meetings with stakeholders
- Participate in on-call rotation; available evenings, weekends and holidays
- Bachelor’s Degree in CS, IT or Engineering (or equivalent work experience)
- Preferred Certifications: CCIE, Azure – Any MS Azure Certifications will suffice
- 10+ years working experience with Cisco IOS devices including configuration, management, and troubleshooting.
- 2+ years working as Senior Network Engineer and Team Lead.
- Working experience in monitoring and troubleshooting within a large enterprise and large-scale LAN/WAN environments including routers, switches, VMWare, and load balancers.
- Expert level knowledge and experience in various network technologies, services, and protocols that are typical of a large enterprise network including VPC, BGP, MPLS, VRF, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, and QoS.
- Experience with Wireless Control Systems and Access Point technologies.
- Strong understanding of change control methodologies and experience implementing and modifying change processes and procedures, as necessary.
- Hands on experience and expert knowledge of Nexus VPC and layer 2 technologies.
- Experience installing/cabling network equipment in a data center.
- Experience in Microsoft 365 / Office 365
- Expert knowledge of Azure Networking with hands on experience
- Knowledgeable about Network Access Control solutions and products, hands on experience is a plus
- Experience with Cisco DNA and Cisco ISE
- Preferred experience with as many of the following as possible:
- Meraki Switches/AP’s, Cisco Nexus 9k switches
- Cumulus Networks
- Linux
- Ansible/Gitlab
- Virtualization (VMWare)
- NGINX load balancers
- Nagios Monitoring
- Azure Cloud
- Palo Alto
- Occasional travel may be required (up to 20%)