Data Center Network Service Delivery Manager; TX

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience, may have supervisory or lead experience
• 8+ years of enterprise data center networking experience.
• Demonstrated experience withMPLS, BGP, and OSPF routing design and operations
• Cisco data center platform experience including:
• Cisco ASR routers
• Cisco Nexus switches
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) design and operations experience
• Experience with firewall management and network security operations.
• Experience managing multi-tenant network environments, including:
• VRF
• MPLS
• Strong understanding of enterprise data center network architecture, routing, switching, security, and connectivity.
• Experience managing complex, high-availability network environments.
• Strong network service delivery and operational leadership experience.
• Cisco CCNP (Data Center or Enterprise) Certification
• Must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with cloud connectivity, including:
• Megaport
• AWS Direct Connect
• Azure Express Route
• Cisco CCIEstrongly preferred.
• ITIL Foundation preferred.
• Government IT networking experience preferred.
• Experience managing network infrastructure within agovernment or regulated environment.
• Experience with large-scale multi-site data center networks.
• Experience with SDN transformation and network modernization.
• Experience with network automation and automated security rule management.
• Experience supporting multi-vendor/MSI government IT environments.

Peraton is hiring a Data Center Network Service Delivery Manager to support the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR).This position provides overall network service delivery leadership across the Austin Data Center (ADC), San Angelo Data Center (SDC), and Cyrus One colocation nodes in Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio.

The successful candidate will oversee a complex enterprise data center network environment encompassing theDCN Ring, LAN infrastructure, firewalls, load balancers, cloud connectivity, VRFs, routing, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), remote access infrastructure, firewall automation, and network laboratory operations.

Candidate must be willing to travel to both sites
- Austin and San Angelo TX. and must be local to the Austin TX area or willing to relocate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintain overall accountability for all data center network services across:
• Austin Data Center (ADC)
• San Angelo Data Center (SDC)
• Cyrus One colocation nodes
• ManageDCN Ring operations, including a20 Gbps MPLS network across five locations:
• Austin Data Center
• San Angelo Data Center
• Austin Cyrus One
• Dallas Cyrus One
• San Antonio Cyrus One
• Oversee LAN operations at both Consolidated Data Centers, including approximately:
• 205 data switches
• 164 fabric extenders
• 64 firewalls
• 44 load balancers
• Manage Cyrus One  colocation nodesin:
• Austin
• Dallas
• San Antonio
• Manage public cloud connectivity across:
• Azure Government
• AWS Government
• Azure Commercial
• AWS Commercial
• Oversee approximately
  60 Gbps of cloud connectivity via Megaport.
• Manage approximately
  40–50 VRFs.
• Provide operational oversight of:
• OSPF
• MPLS
• MP-BGP
• BFD
• Lead Software-Defined Networking (SDN) operations and evolution.
• Oversee automated firewall rule management.
• Manage a minimum
  500-user two-factor remote access infrastructure.
• Maintain theLAN laboratory used for pre-production change testing.
• Coordinate network service delivery, operational performance, change management, incident resolution, and infrastructure evolution.
• Maintain network availability, stability, security, and performance across the in-scope environment.