Senior Network Architect Enterprise & Cloud Networking

About the role

The position requires an onsite presence at the downtown Columbia USC campus. Occasional remote work is permissible, but the majority of work will take place on site.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical and project leadership for enterprise network architecture, advanced engineering, modernization, and infrastructure implementation initiatives, including hands-on engineering when required.
• Design and engineer scalable, resilient, and secure LAN, WAN, wireless, data center, cloud, VPN, firewall, and Network Access Control solutions.
• Develop and maintain enterprise network architectures, engineering standards, technical roadmaps, network diagrams, and other technical documentation; review and validate network designs and engineering solutions developed by other technical staff.
• Analyze institutional business and technical requirements and translate them into enterprise network designs and implementation strategies.
• Lead network modernization lifecycle planning, capacity planning, and remediation of aging or at-risk infrastructure.
• Develop and implement monitoring, observability, automation, orchestration, and operational metrics to proactively assess and improve enterprise network health, capacity, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Serve as a senior technical resource and Tier III escalation point for complex network incidents and engineering issues, performing advanced troubleshooting and providing architecture-level guidance and resolution when required.
• Cookordination architecture and engineering activities with Network Operations, Information Security, Physical Network Infrastructure, Facilities Planning, project teams, contractors, consultants, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and solutions and provide technical recommendations supporting procurement, investment, and long-term infrastructure planning.
• Provide technical mentoring, knowledge transfer, and engineering guidance to Network Operations and other technical personnel; participate in maintenance windows and after-hours support when required.

Requirements

• Must have experience with enterprise network architecture and engineering within complex mission-critical environments (4+ years).
• Experience with LAN/WAN technologies including Juniper enterprise routing and switching, TCP/IP enterprise routing protocols, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (4+ years).
• Experience leading complex network architecture and engineering initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, troubleshooting, and operational transition (4+ years).
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure modernization lifecycle planning, capacity planning, resiliency, and high-availability design (4+ years).
• Experience with network security architecture and technologies including Fortinet firewalls and VPN/SASE technologies, Network Access Control (NAC) segmentation, and security policy implementation (4+ years).
• Experience with cloud and hybrid networking including AWS or Microsoft Azure (4+ years).
• Experience with network automation, orchestration, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code concepts and technologies (4+ years).
• Experience with enterprise network monitoring, observability, analytics, metrics, and performance management (4+ years).
• Knowledge of technical documentation standards, development, and architecture diagrams.
• Experience with project management and enterprise implementation.
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and customer service skills.
• Advanced troubleshooting and technical leadership during complex or mission-critical network incidents.
• Strong technical communication, documentation, stakeholder coordination, vendor management, and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Demonstrated project leadership experience coordinating complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, stakeholders, vendors, and organizational units.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, network engineering, computer engineering, or a closely related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• One of the following certifications: Juniper Networks Certified Professional – Enterprise Routing and Switching (JNCIP-ENT) or higher, Fortinet Certified Professional (FCP) or higher certification relevant to network security, firewalls, or secure networking, Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Enterprise) or Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification relevant to network security, firewalls, or secure networking, Aruba networking certification relevant to enterprise switching, wireless, or network architecture, AWS or Microsoft Azure certification relevant to advanced networking or cloud network architecture, ITIL Foundation or higher, CompTIA Security+.

Skills

• Experience with enterprise network architecture and engineering within complex mission-critical environments (4+ years).
• Experience with LAN/WAN technologies including Juniper enterprise routing and switching, TCP/IP enterprise routing protocols, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (4+ years).
• Experience leading complex network architecture and engineering initiatives from requirements and design through implementation, troubleshooting, and operational transition (4+ years).
• Experience with enterprise infrastructure modernization lifecycle planning, capacity planning, resiliency, and high-availability design (4+ years).
• Experience with network security architecture and technologies including Fortinet firewalls and VPN/SASE technologies, Network Access Control (NAC) segmentation, and security policy implementation (4+ years).
• Experience with cloud and hybrid networking including AWS or Microsoft Azure (4+ years).
• Experience with network automation, orchestration, scripting, and Infrastructure as Code concepts and technologies (4+ years).
• Experience with enterprise network monitoring, observability, analytics, metrics, and performance management (4+ years).
• Technical documentation standards development and architecture diagrams.
• Experience with project management and enterprise implementation.
• Excellent written, verbal, analytical, and customer service skills.
• Advanced troubleshooting and technical leadership during complex or mission-critical network incidents.
• Strong technical communication, documentation, stakeholder coordination, vendor management, and knowledge-transfer skills.
• Demonstrated project leadership experience coordinating complex technical initiatives across multiple teams, stakeholders, vendors, and organizational units.

Benefits

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