Blog

Hi,

Hope you are doing well.

I have a Job Position for Lead Network Engineer/Architect. Find below the Job Description and Let me know if you are interested.

Job Description:

Job Title :        Lead Network Engineer/Architect

Location :       Hybrid to Jersey City, NJ

End Client :    Jefferies | Working with Prime Vendor

Seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join and lead the Network Engineering/Architecture team.

 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.

click here