Senior Infrastructure Architect BHJOB2052_20686

Senior Infrastructure Architect

This is an exciting opportunity to join a progressive international company and work on challenging infrastructure projects.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Solution design, implementation, and operation support of our global infrastructure services
• Serve as the technical lead for complex planning projects for all network infrastructure, including detailed design creation, proposals, analysis, project preparation, implementation, and support.
• Design large-scale enterprise WAN, SD-WAN, LAN, and WLAN, including switches, firewalls, and other network-related hardware.
• Design and Implement Data Center technologies like VXLAN, SDDI
• Design and continuously improve network monitoring and observability capabilities
• Design and management of core services such as DHCP, DNS, IP address Management and Load Balancing
• Define requirements in support of budget plans and make recommendations for ways to improve performance, reduce costs, and meet business requirements
• Defines the architecture and hardware requirements for project proposals
• Design, execute, and support day-to-day service requests
• Lead large-scale network refresh projects as well as divisional expansion projects
• Design and Manage Network Capacity and Performance
• Evaluate and identify opportunities for network performance and functionality improvement within the enterprise network
• Participate in the development efforts to bring automation into the network environment
• Responsible for compliance with all applicable policies, procedures, and industry best practices
• Successfully negotiate technical design and deployment strategy with key stakeholders and consumers of the service
• Serve as the platform technical subject matter expert and provide consulting support to the business and end-user organizations
• Produce and maintain timely, accurate engineering documentation
• Partner with our Cybersecurity organization in conducting security and vulnerability assessments to ensure compliance with corporate security policies and adherence to best practices

This is a direct-hire position. You can telecommute 2.5 days a week after 30 days. Our office is located in the Sandy Springs / Dunwoody area. The excellent work environment includes flex hours, an on-site gym, a game room, and a top-notch restaurant.
REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 5+ years as a Network or Infrastructure Architect
• 5+ years of network experience with multinational enterprises of 5000+ users, including network design
• Ability to provide technical leadership on projects
• Expertise in designing enterprise scale routing and switching environments, MPLS / VPN, SD-WAN, WLAN, Cisco ISE, Identity/Authentication solutions, Network Topologies, Load balancing, and QoS and SDDI
• Experience working with Windows 2003-2016, VMware, Server Blade Technologies including Cisco UCS, Storage Technologies
• Advanced knowledge of telecommunications and data networks
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple concurrent and varied projects
• Demonstrates mastery of the concepts and theory of network security and possesses adept knowledge of data networking, including expertise in switching, routing, directory services, and TCP/IP fundamentals
• Demonstrates knowledge of encryption protocols, as well as means for compromising systems based on known vulnerabilities
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to interact and communicate with all levels of an organization

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Entra ID authentication
• Aryaka SD-WAN or SDWAN technologies
• Azure or AWS Cloud networking
• Palo Alto Firewalls
• Barracuda load balancers
• Service Now or Freshworks ITSM tool
• SolarWinds
• Multilingual
• MS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Telecommunications
• Certifications: CISSP, CCNP, CCSE or CCIE
  

Must be authorized to work in the U.S./ Sponsorships are not available.