Senior Architect

Key Responsibilities

• Define the target operating environment
• Design for client resiliency
• Assist with solution design
• Define non-functional requirements

Job Expectations

• Work with stakeholders and service providers aligned to the Business' strategic objectives
• Evaluate the impact of strategic design decisions
• Contribute to the architecture roadmap

Technical DMZ Architect

• Provide DMZ/Remote Access/SDWAN/Hosting/B2B/VPN Infrastructure Architecture
• Create network level HLD and LLD designs
• Solution delivery
• Assess design submissions for security compliance against baselines
• Shepard requestors through technical challenges until designs are complete
• Act in a liaison role between Global Information Security and as an escalation point for engineering / operations
• Self-starter who can lead projects
• Must be able to troubleshoot multivendor solutions in lab or POC environments
• Manage assigned networking projects, program components and deployments to deliver services in accordance with established company objectives

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years industry experience with technology domain experience
• Experience integrating solutions with Cloud provider environments such as MS Azure, AWS, Google, IBM
• Strong understanding of network security architecture and traffic segmentation
• Working knowledge of public cloud networking concepts within GCP, AWS, and Azure environments
• Solid routing, switching, Arista, Cisco Nexus, Firepower/ASA, Fortinet router and DMZ/ISP experience
• Solid understanding of TCP/IP concepts, SDN, OSPF, BGP, VLAN, IPSEC, ISAKMP, PKI, QOS, Multicast, trunking/port-channeling, VRRP, FHRP protocols, enterprise level MPLS, VDC, flavors of VPC, SDN
• Familiar with best practices to install and deploy various Arista & Cisco routing and switching platforms such as ISR, ASR, Catalyst and Nexus
• Experience with large scale, complex network/DMZ environments and Authentication mechanisms (e.g. Active Directory, Ping federate)
• Experience with scripting languages

Desired Qualifications

• Experience integrating enterprise networks with: Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Microsoft Azure
• Understanding of cloud connectivity services such as: Cloud Interconnect, Direct Connect, ExpressRoute
• Site-to-site VPN architectures
• Experience test tools including Quali Cloud Shell, and Viavi Tera VM
• General experience with security technologies, such as firewalls, intrusion detection, threat mitigation
• Exposure to EOS and IOS-XR routing
• IPv6 Knowledge/experience to support certification testing of IPv6 capabilities
• Experience with automation and development of automation scripts
• Python experience
• Experience with automation skills/tools such as: Arista CloudVision, Terraform, Ansible, Netconf, YANG