Sr Network Architect with Voice/VoIP

One of our direct clients looking for Sr Network Engineer Voip and Teams Experience in The Woodlands, TX. This is onsite work. Looking only candidates.

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Job Title: Sr Network Architect with Voice/VoIP

Location: The Woodlands, TX

Duration: 6+ contract to hire

Work mode: Onsite

Interview process: initial phone screen, then in-person

Sr. Network Engg:
Call Manager system, multiple sites integrated into MS Teams
Looking for VOIP person with networking background and Teams
Understand how Cisco VOIP works
Networking perspective: cisco routers, firewalls
Routing

Updated Job Description:

The Senior Principal Technology Specialist – Senior Network Engineer addresses complex, high-impact challenges by combining strategic vision with hands-on expertise. An expert in data communications and network security, the Senior Principal Technology Specialist architects, secures, and scales data and firewall solutions while guiding the direction and resource allocation of projects and programs.

This Individual Contributor role reports directly to the Director, Information Technology Infrastructure and routinely interacts with Global IT, Business Leads, Project Management, Engineering, and Operations.

Responsibility

• Develop and execute a strategic vision for the enterprise and data center networks, security perimeters, and telecommunications environments by leveraging innovative technologies, implementing industry best practices, and driving continuous improvement to optimize service delivery and elevate customer satisfaction.

• Design, configure, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient network infrastructure, firewalls, security perimeters, wireless networks, cloud environments, third-party integrations, security tools, SASE, and supporting auxiliary systems such as monitoring, DHCP, and DNS.
• Collaborate with IT teams, cross-functional teams, and third parties to gather business requirements, assist with business plan development, and implement technologies such as integrated innovative network infrastructure, security controls, cloud solutions, and applications, while ensuring seamless and future-ready operation across the organization.
• Execute a wide range of network and security initiatives, including deploying and integrating technologies across the global enterprise to securely manage data traffic flows and access management for systems and applications. 
• Engineer, deploy, and operate monitoring tools to enable visibility, control, proactive mitigation, system health, and operational effectiveness.
• Analyze network performance data and implement strategies to optimize system performance, such as bandwidth utilization, network throughput, routing, call quality, hardware and software turning, application filtering, and response times.
• Design and implement predictive and preventive system maintenance techniques, including lifecycle management strategies.
• Design and implement integration services with Third-Party Systems, IAM, cloud services, next generation firewalls, DNS services, WAF, CDN, and SaaS.
• Adapt leading security frameworks NIST, CIS, ISO, CSA, and CB&I specific security controls to enhance cybersecurity effectiveness.
• Develop and implement robust security policies, processes, and technology systems specific to network, firewalls, security perimeters, and telecommunications domains in collaboration with the Cybersecurity team.
• Develop, review, maintain, and disseminate comprehensive and accessible documentation, including configuration details, changes, troubleshooting guides, standard operating procedures, business processes, and runbooks to ensure operational clarity and compliance.
• Leverage network, cybersecurity, and telecommunications governance expertise and infrastructure frameworks to develop and enforce policies and procedures that support continuous improvement and compliance.
• Serve as a subject matter expert within your area of responsibility, mentoring members of the global IT organization, delivering technical and operational cross-training, and providing advanced support for problem-solving and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity stakeholders to design, implement, and maintain comprehensive disaster recovery plans and strategies, ensuring continuous availability and resilience of network, firewall, security perimeter, and VoIP/telephony services during outages, natural disasters, or cybersecurity incidents

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree in computer science, Computer Engineering, Management Information Systems, or related field or equivalent work experience.
• Preferred 15 or more years of LAN/WAN, enterprise, and data center network, routing, switching, and wireless experience.
• Minimum 8 years designing, configuring, and maintaining, Palo Alto or Cisco firewall policies, security rules, NAT, VPNs (IPSec/SSL), and application-based filtering
• Security appliance experience integrating firewalls and security solutions with (SIEM, IDPS/IPS, and Threat intelligence), centralized firewall administration and policy orchestration using tools such as Panorama, and conduct rule base and configuration reviews ensuring audit and control compliance.
• Minimum 4 years of cloud network and infrastructure technologies experience
• Experience designing, configuring, and implementing unified communications a plus. VoIP, Telephony on-prem and cloud, conference systems, third-party telephony integration, SIP, and PSTN.
• Preferred certifications or equivalent: Cisco CCNP Enterprise or Security, PCNSE, MS Azure Network, Network +
• In-depth experience designing, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting converged global network infrastructure consisting of Cisco IOS, NXOS, 802.1x, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VPNs, DMVPN, SD-WAN, Access List, LAN, WAN, firewalls, SASE, and wireless.
• Experience configuring and using networking and security tools such as NetBrain, ThousandEyes, SecureCRT, Wireshark, MS Visio, PRTG, Infoblox, IP Fix aggregator, and log collector. 
• Experience planning and migrating acquisitions, divestitures, on-premises systems, SaaS, facilities, firewalls, and cloud services.
• Experience diagnosing and resolving network, firewall, application flow, and telecommunication issues, including hardware and software failures, connectivity problems, and performance bottlenecks, using network diagnostic tools and techniques.
• Ability to deliver illustrative design solution documentation that outlines guidance on licensing, physical architecture, logical configuration, checklist application inventory, security policy protection phases, and basic administration, including system configuration baseline and security policy configuration baseline.
• Proven ability to perform network architectural design, modeling, engineering, implementation, migration, technical refresh, upgrades, and lifecycle services for the data center, security systems, and Cloud enterprise network infrastructure.
• Extensive experience supporting network services and products which include, but are not limited to, routers, switches, firewalls, web application firewalls, load balancers, DNS, email gateways, proxy services, VPN, Local Area Network (LAN), Wide Area Network (WAN) and protocols, cryptographic devices, associated device software and firmware, diagnostic tools, and automation systems.
• Experience configuring and deploying TACACS, Cisco DNAC, Cisco ISE, Cisco Prime, SD-WAN, load balancer, WAF, Palo Alto Panorama or similar centralized firewall and cloud security management.
• Cisco Routers experience: ISR 4331, 8500, 2911, and 8300.
• Palo Alto firewall deployment and configuration: Palo Alto 3000, 400, Panorama, Layer 7 app control and threat prevention, IP Sec Tunnel, Global Protect, and policy rule template, and template stack. 
• Cisco Switches experience: 9300, 9200, 8200,4500, 3850, 2960 series & Cisco Nexus 7k, 5k, and 2k switches.
• Wireless experience: Cisco AP & WLC, Aruba AP & WLC, Meraki AP, Meraki MG cellular wireless
• SD-WAN and SASE experience: Cisco Meraki MX, Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN, Cisco Secure Access, Secure Connect
• Routing Protocol experience: BGP, OMP, EIGRP, RIP, MP-BGP, VRF, Redistribution, and Static Routing.
• Switching Protocol experience: STP, RSTP, PVSTP, VTP, VPC, ARP, FHRP, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP, VLAN, VXLAN, inter-VLAN routing.
• Supporting features, services, and security experience: IP Subnetting, VLSM, VLAN, DHCP, DNS, NAT, PAT, IP Sec, ACL, VRF, VSS, QoS, VXLAN, SSH, LDAP integrations, DNS Filtering, 802.1x, MAC Authentication, ACLs, and Certificate.
• History of delivering tier 3 and tier 4 support and acting as an escalation point across enterprise and data center networks, telecommunication, and cloud services.
• Delivering configuration and build patterns for TCP/IP networking as well as Cloud Load Balancers, Application gateway, Security Groups, VNETs/Subnets, VPN Gateways, Private links/endpoints, ExpressRoute, Route tables, DNS, traffic manager, and NAT configuration.
• Experience managing, diagnosing, and resolving Internet circuits, WAN, MPLS, point-to-point network, SIP Trunk, and SIP services.
• Familiarity with external and internal audit processes regarding IT designs, services, and configuration changes.
• Proficiency and knowledge of automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell/Automate)
• Experience in the regular evaluation of LAN, WLAN, WAN, firewall, security zones, telephony systems, cloud environments, enterprise network, and data center infrastructure performance, ensuring optimal operation by proactively troubleshooting issues and implementing solutions that minimize downtime.

Skills and Behaviors

• In addition to providing technical leadership, build and nurture strong partnerships across business, engineering, security, and operations teams, consistently upholding the organization’s vision, core values, and business principles.
• Proactively embraces and promotes the company’s values and culture, including diversity & inclusion and a healthy and safe work environment
• Strong knowledge of hardware and software configuration using hands-on and scripting. Systems in scope include network hardware and software, on perm and cloud firewalls, telecommunication, cloud services, third-party integrations, and security tools.
• Strong assessment and analytical expertise to interpret outputs from monitoring and reporting tools to enable proactive identification of potential problem areas and implement targeted solutions to mitigate risks before they affect operations.
• Extensive knowledge in the design, implementation, and life cycle management of seamless communication across multiple platforms. Communication requirements include video teleconferencing (VTC) systems, telecommunication networks, security controls, cloud environments, and SaaS services.
• Strong knowledge of networking concepts, network virtualization technologies, such as SDN (Software-Defined Networking) and virtual private networks (VPNs), protocols, and technologies, including TCP/IP, IP Sec, DNS, DHCP, BGP, LAN/WAN, routing, switching, and wireless networks
• Strong understanding of security controls and boundaries includes the ability to design and implement security boundaries, cloud versus on-premises firewalls, advantages and disadvantages of SASE service, SDWAN application layer filtering and malware protection and difference between SEIM and logging.
• In-depth understanding of network security principles and best practices, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, access controls, encryption techniques, enterprise and data center networks, cloud infrastructure, DNS filtering, WAF, VoIP, third-party integration, and Wireless.
• Strong knowledge of OSI and TCP/IP reference models, IP addressing, IP Subnetting, VLSM, QoS, VXLAN, backup, Micro-segmentation, security zones, security boundaries, bandwidth efficiency, high availability, and redundancy.
• Strong knowledge of security principles design and implementation for MS Teams Telephony, VoIP, unified communications, enterprise and data center network, routing, switching, access methods, and Wireless systems.
• Analytical problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Must have excellent organizational, project management, and communication skills.
• Ability to work in a collaborative team environment and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
• Must be able to successfully work on multiple projects simultaneously and work under tight deadlines in a results-oriented environment.
• Deliver exceptional customer service by combining strong customer focus with initiative-taking communication, responsiveness, and technical expertise.
• Successfully manage time and technical responsibilities, set accurate expectations, and meet deliverable deadlines while working in a team and information-sharing environment.
• Ability to think creatively and develop solutions quickly in critical environments.
• Leverages collaboration skills to solve problems with global peers across various functions.
• Possesses strong verbal & written communication skills in English, with demonstrated experience in effectively speaking to all levels of the organization, including executive level, SMEs (Subject Matter Experts), and Principal Technologists.

Best Regards,