Network Solutions Architect

New Era Technology is a global technology solutions provider with 4,500+ employees and offices around the world. New Era offers Cloud, Managed, Professional, and Security services, and delivers Collaboration, Data Networking, Digital Transformation, and Physical & Life Safety solutions to more than 14,500 customers worldwide.

We are looking for team members to contribute to and deliver our mission: “To deliver and support technology solutions that securely connect people, places, and information.” New Era Technology is a community of like-minded, like-hearted people who share the same vision and values.

Work alongside the finest team of highly skilled and industry-certified professionals who are encouraged to drive change and think outside of the box. As a team member, you will receive competitive benefits, industry training, and certifications.  New Era Technology empowers businesses to embrace the future workplace. As customers shift their perspectives on where and how work happens, we are there to meet them with flexible, resilient, and productive solutions.

New Era Technology provides a team-oriented culture, a positive environment filled with an incredible staff, and a genuine passion for providing the best service to our customers worldwide. We believe that investing in our employees is the key to professional growth, delivering exceptional experiences for our customers, and setting the standard for excellence in our field.

We offer a growth-orientated, high-tech environment for employees. Along with our many benefits, you can expect a corporate culture that promotes personal and professional development. Our customer-focused teams are built on our core values: Community, Integrity, Agile, and Committed.

We currently have a need for a Network Solutions Architect to design and implement solutions for Global Network Infrastructure environments.   The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of relevant work experience in Networking, Network Security, and overseeing strategic Technology Programs at Enterprise Clients.  Global Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or Managed Service experience is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Consult with clients to discuss requirements or plans for new solutions.
• Develop engineering solutions and explain technologies to customers.  Help them with gathering requirements and finding a solution for hardware and engineering services.
• Provide recommendations on viability, implementation strategies and optimal implementation of solutions.

• Review technical requirements with Account Management team as well as the client and prepare statement of work (SOW’s), level of effort and bill of materials (BOM’s) for projects.
• Develop design and system configuration based on technical requirements
• Recommend enhancements/changes to system design as appropriate

• Develop and deploy scalable solutions for LAN, WAN, WLAN, Firewalls, and other network devices.
• Identify, research, evaluate and implement emerging network technologies.
• Responsible for configuration, installation and maintenance and in-depth troubleshooting tasks and documenting any network issues.
• Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with vendors. 
• Escalation of problems as appropriate to management.

• Create standard deployment and support documentation to be handed over to the network operations group
• Train deployment/field engineers for on-site deployment/troubleshooting

Skills required:

• Bachelor's degree in related technical/business areas
• 10+ years’ experience with enterprise-level network design and deployment with Cisco technologies

• Experience preparing SOW and BOMs.

• Proficient with the design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring of core routing and switching, LAN/WAN/ MAN services
• Proficient in routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, MPLS-TP
• Experience with Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k configuration and design.
• Familiarity and/or hands on experience with SDWAN and Cloud Solutions.
• Experience designing data center infrastructures with ACI and SDN.
• Through understanding of IP concepts including routing, VLAN's, QoS, tuning and capacity management concepts
• Utilizing scripting tools
• Ability to analyze and design network systems to achieve efficient and secure operation
• Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP, including packet-level traffic analysis
• Current Cisco data networking certifications i.e. CCNP, CCDP, CCIE strongly preferred.
• Experience working in large enterprise networks is desired. The ability to work under pressure and interface with senior management will be key to these roles.