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Role :  Lead Network Engineer/Architect

Location : Jersey City, NJ, 07302 (Hybrid)

Work Authorization :  USC/GC

Working with Prime vendor || Jefferies

Job Description: 

Qualifications:

• Extraordinary technical communicator who is skilled and experienced with connecting the dots for organizations as well as influencing and advising on organizational strategies.
• Ability to persuade and change the technical thinking of others in a leadership role while maintaining strong relationships.
• Financial experience
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment that sometimes has minimal direction but requires you to have proactive discussions to help drive projects and initiatives.
• Delivering under tight deadlines while multitasking, prioritizing projects, communicating priority updates to team members, and conducting meetings with team members and stakeholders
• Exhibit critical-thinking and the ability to creatively solve problems.
• Motivated and inventive, has a committed drive for contributing and making a difference.
• Experience working on application and infrastructure implementation projects and ensuring results conform to network architecture standards.

Technical Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical experience in networking, network security and leading a team.
• Working understanding of open-standard networking protocols and the ability to identify and implement these protocols at an enterprise level.
• Ability to conduct Network Operational analysis to solve issues using network flow analysis, packet captures and event correlation tools.
• Experience building out multi sized datacenters, campuses and branch sites using enterprise architecture principles, industry standards and best practices.
• Network Security experience designing and implementing firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and NAC solutions for data and endpoint protection.
• Experience in multiple technical domains such as server, storage, desktop, security, and network infrastructure.
• Working knowledge implementing Cloud networking solutions with AWS and Azure
• Deep understanding of networking and firewall hardware platforms for Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, F5 and Aruba Silver-Peak
• Experience designing and implementing cloud hosted SaaS solutions for end user remote and branch secure connection.
• Working knowledge on building and implementing a network automation design that automates networking tasks across multiple vendors and platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting networks that host trading applications collocated. 

Vendors and Protocols:

• Networking: Cisco, Arista, Aruba Silver-Peak (SD-WAN)
• Firewall and SaaS: Palo Alto, Prisma Access
• Load-Balancers and WAFs: F5 Big-IP, Cloud-Flare
• DDOS: Cloud-Flare and Radware
• Network Observability: cPacket, Viavi, Wireshark, Thousand-Eyes, Grafana and Elasticsearch
• Clouds: AWS, Azure
• Wireless: Cisco and MIST
• Networking Protocols: BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Multicast, MLAG, VPC, MSTP, Rapid-PVST+, LACP, mutual route redistribution, VXLAN, eVPN, FTP
• Programming and Automation: Python, JSON, Jinja, Itential workflow automation
• Micro-Segmentation: Illumio

Responsibilities:

• Design and Deploy Networks:
  • Collaborate with application, infrastructure, and business stakeholders to formulate and implement a network architecture built on resiliency and scalability.
  • Develop standardization and deployment documents with team members that drives the install and configuration of networking hardware.
  • Evaluate pre-production designs and standards in a development environment using success criteria for product and platform selection.
  • Develop standardization for day-2 network infrastructure deployments, configurations, monitoring and automation.
  • Research and evaluate products doing proof-of-concept analysis across multiple vendors which also includes functionality and cost.
  • Develop strategies to conduct bi-annual resiliency and network infrastructure failover testing. 
  • Drive cost optimization by identifying areas within the network infrastructure that can be consolidated or are underutilized.
• Network and Automation Innovation:
  • Develop framework for networking solutions with innovation and emerging technologies across multiple vendors.
  • Apply innovative thinking to help drive new business and technology initiatives that keeps the firm on the cutting edge.
  • Understand full-stack architectures inclusive of Enterprise-driven workflows, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and CI/CD deployment models, Enterprise Network Orchestration & Automation, Source of Truth, ChatOps, ITSM (ServiceNow) and knowing how open source can lead or compliment a given architecture.
  • Apply innovative thinking to help drive observability using streaming telemetry with real time alerting and AI integrations.
  • Create networking architecture roadmaps based on business technology initiatives, vendor enhancements, improvements, and end-of-life.
  • Conduct cross team collaboration efforts to drive networking support for the firm’s technology.  
• Network Performance Monitoring:
  • Enhance and maintain network monitoring/observability infrastructure to support business stability and continuity.
  • Develop framework to monitor and test network performance within a spine/leaf architecture and private wan network.
  • Develop framework to monitor stability and network connectivity to servers, workstations and telephony appliances connected to the network.
  • Drive the innovation to integrate multiple solutions into a single pane of glass for monitoring and altering visibility. 
• Team-Lead:
  • Delegate projects and track milestones for team members.
  • Assess technical bottlenecks and process problems that team members may encounter and provide direction.
  • Conduct daily and or weekly meetings to track progress on major project deliverables or issues.
  • Drive direction and create roadmaps that help meet business and technical objectives. 

Provide mentorship to team members and conduct technical and performance goals. 

Thanks & Regards,

Manisha Soy

Technical Recruiter

[email protected]

Techcenter Technologies Inc

3240 East State Street Ext, Hamilton, NJ 08619