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Core Duties and Responsibilities

• Coordinate network strategies, participate in technology selection activities, and work with the business and IT stakeholders to ensure the long-term network infrastructure technology plan.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and communicate long term vision and comprehensive strategic plans for infrastructure and enterprise architecture solutions.
• Serve as a hands-on technical expert for enterprise-wide network infrastructure technology.
• Define principles/standards for infrastructure and/or enterprise architecture.
• Lead vendor evaluation and selection of network technology solution.
• Design and implement new network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks.
• Assist the Operations team with the installation, configuration, and support of networking equipment including NextGen firewalls, routers, switches, and WAN performance and monitoring.
• Network Design & Implementation: Develop and implement enterprise-wide network architectures, including WAN, LAN, and WiFi designs, ensuring scalability and security.
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry.
• Oversee new and existing equipment, hardware, and software upgrades.
• Create complex design artifacts including network layouts and logical/physical designs.
• Ensure proper documentation including design, procedural and lessons learned; maintain and update existing documentation.
• Develop and evaluate system/network performance criteria and measurement methods.
• Research current technology and provide ongoing information to management, peers, and network users regarding enhancements and innovations.
• Attend meetings with business stakeholders to assess needs and provide effective network solutions aligned with organizational goals.
• Assist the operations team with the management, and monitoring of enterprise networks including (but not limited to) LAN/WAN//SAN/OT/IoT/Hybrid Cloud
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams, providing technical leadership.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Business Administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, or related area of study
• 7+ years of experience providing network systems design, implementation, and support in an enterprise-class environment with a complex network architecture.
• Experience with Network Design in complex environments (legacy and SDA).
• Exposure to IPSec frameworks and encryption techniques.
• Experience with IPv4 and IPv6 connectionless protocols, BGP, EIGRP, MPLS, DMVPN, VxLAN routing protocols, including iSCSI and fibre channel storage network protocols.
• Insight and experience with ESX networking, including distributed switching.
• Experience integrating Legacy/old Hardware into the DNA platform.
• Extensive experience with Wireless (WiFi) network design, implementation, and maintenance.
• Experience configuring policies on an Client server to support role-based network access control.
• Experience with Cisco routing and Aruba (AOS-CX) switching.
• Experience with Cisco Next Gen Firewalls.
• Cisco certifications highly desired.