Network Architect

Duration: 12 Months

Position Description

A Senior Enterprise Architect applies their management skills and specialized functional and technical expertise to support complex projects in applying organizing principles and methods of enterprise architecture. Methods of enterprise architecture include IT business systems development and technical solutions that align with the business process. This is accomplished through requirements analysis, needs assessments, and selection and implementation of integration strategies including lifecycle sustainability.

The Senior Enterprise Architect will provide subject matter expertise in industry, and have specific knowledge of methods including architect enterprise strategy, enterprise architecture development and management; business process design and re-engineering; investment decision making and support for solution architecture development/management; and support the attainment of business strategy and its alignment with processes and information technology strategy.

Skills Required

The Senior Enterprise Architect will possess knowledge and technical expertise in standards and technologies to support complex business analysis, solution selection, systems design, and application integration.

Additional Skills Required

• Expertise in complex transport protocols and configurations, specifically Virtual Cross Connect (VXC), dot1q, and Q-in-Q.
• Expertise in architecting and managing high-performance, cross-cloud connectivity.
• Expertise in data center & edge engineering with Cisco ACI fabric implementations using Nexus 9k (C9504, C93180YC) and ASR 1000 series edge routing.
• Expertise in securing enterprise environments via Zscaler tunnels, Palo Alto (Physical/Virtual), Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), and cloud-native firewalls.
• Proficiency with troubleshooting and performance monitoring using Thousand Eyes, Cribl, PRTG, and Wireshark.
• Proficiency with AWS Transit Gateway, Direct Connect Gateway (DGW) / Virtual Private Gateway (VGW), Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) design, Load Balancing, and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) networking.
• Proficiency with Azure Express Route, Virtual Wide Area Network (WAN), Azure VMware Solution (AVS), App Service, Hub/Spoke peering, and Private Endpoints.
• Proficiency with Google Cloud Platform (GCP), cloud router, Network Connectivity Center (NCC) Hub/Spoke, Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE), and Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) attachments.

Experience Required

This classification must have a minimum of seven (7) years of applying Enterprise Architecture principles.

At least five (5) years of that experience must be in a lead capacity.

Education Required

This classification requires the possession of a bachelor’s degree in an IT-related or Engineering field.

Additional qualifying experience may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis.

Additional Education Required

This classification requires both Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Service Provider and CCNP Enterprise certifications with Specialist credentials in Core and Advanced Routing for both tracks. The certification status will be verified.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender, identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.