Lead Consultant Prof Services ATC
AT&T
- Atlanta, GA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Collaborate, confer and provides consulting services and manages project activities from client identification through final invoicing.
- Works on billable consulting service projects.
- Demonstrates broad product knowledge with the customer within a specific discipline.
- Works independently on highly complex projects , or may work in a team as assigned by the project leader.
- Technical responsibilities will include problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design, implementation, testing, client training, and deployment.
- Leads all technical aspects of delivery, customer satisfaction, and accurate timekeeping for billing purposes, on projects where the Consultant is the only technical resource or lead technical resource.
- Demonstrates expert knowledge of principles, theories and concepts in applicable discipline, plus high level of working knowledge in other related fields. May assist less experienced peers when needed.
- Work is performed under minimal direction.
- As a member of a team of advanced infrastructure consultants and lead consultants, you will use your in-depth knowledge of networking to design and implement solutions for our clients.
- Responsible for consulting project activities from client identification through final invoicing.
- Fulfills billable consulting service projects.
- Acts as the subject matter expert within a specific discipline.
- Typically leads an engagement team, consisting of other Consultants and/or Sr. Consultant, or may be the sole consulting resource on a project.
- Technical responsibilities include problem identification, system architecture definition, hardware/software specification and/or design, implementation, testing, client training, and deployment.
- Typically viewed as a mentor or coach.
- Creates recommendation and implements new methods, techniques and /or procedures.
- 10+ years of experience in the planning, design and implementation of complex networks as part of a large enterprise network team, or within the professional services or network integration environments.
- Planning, design and integration of secure network technology.
- A positive, energetic attitude and a serious desire to have an impact on your company and the industry.
- Accomplished at developing Visio designs/diagrams and documenting professional, cohesive deliverables. Sample deliverables will be requested as evidence of documentation skills.
- Verifiable strong ethics, trustworthiness, accountability and reliability in being resourceful and self-directed while possessing both a positive leadership and collaborative teamwork style.
- Thorough understanding of internetworking technologies and how technologies are deployed in complex, global networks. IPv4 and IPv6 experience.
- WAN and preferably iWAN Expertise – Transport and Access Planning, Design and Deployment Experience
- Experience in analysis and selection of transport and access technologies including; MPLS, Private Line, Hybrid WAN, Internet Complex, Ethernet, Internet VPN, DWDM, and wireless.
- MPLS Integration including MPLS equipment & transport selection, QoS, MPLS IP Routing and MPLS migration planning/transition
- LAN Expertise – Planning, Design and Deployment Experience
- Experience in equipment selection, sizing and detailed engineered design
- Data center expertise including core, distribution and segmentation
- Wireless equipment selection, sizing and detailed engineered design
- Layer 2 vs Layer 3 segmentation
- Virtualization using path segmentation (GRE, VRF-Lite, L3VPN’s, L2VPN’s)
- IP Routing – Planning, Design & Deployment Experience
- IP Routing Protocols – OSPF, BGP, M-BGP, EIGRP capabilities and corresponding configurations.
- IP Addressing – NAT, DNS/DHCP, Address Summarization as it impacts IP addressing and IP routing.
- Data Center Expertise – DC Core Network Planning, Design and Deployment Experience
- Experience in analysis, design, engineering and deployment of DC core networks built on legacy architectures and fabric enabled architectures.
- Experience with Load Balancing, DNS/DHCP, NAT, WANx and Proxies
- Experience with separation and segmentation technologies (VLAN, VRF)
- Experience with network virtualization technologies
- Experience with Cisco ACI SDN technologies
- Network Equipment – Strong knowledge of features, functionality and configurations for Cisco Systems, Nortel, Juniper, Extreme Networks, etc.
- Firewall design, configuration, network segmentation and implementation experience, such as Cisco ASA, CheckPoint, Fortinet, etc.
- Understanding of load-balancing, F5 experience is a plus.
- Knowledge and experience with SDN, Juniper, Velocloud, VMware/Virtualization, and/or IoT is also a significant plus.
- Bachelor’s degree
- Industry Certifications CCIE, or proven equivalent experience with CCNA, CCNP or CISSP
- Very strong leadership, documentation, project management skills.
- Ability to lead, coordinate complex networking engagements for very large environments in a nebulous or unfamiliar setting.
- Ability to travel for engagement requirements.
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected.
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone