Senior Network Architect

• Designs and documents technical network systems to ensure technical design integrates with business design
• Provides day-to-day direction, technical leadership, and strategic direction for the team
• Assists in the hiring, development, and retention of top talent to successfully maintain and incrementally improve the network
• Drives material cost reductions in network infrastructure by simplifying designs, leveraging economies of scale, and partnering with our strategic vendors
• Builds vendor partnerships and leverages those relationships to ensure organization is receiving quality service within published service level agreements and within budget
• Oversees the maintenance, review and revision of contracts and leases for all network and telecommunications software, hardware, and services
• Administers, interprets, and maintains current working knowledge of the required systems, procedures, forms and manuals as related to the assigned area of responsibility
• Informs the team of new or updated service standards, systems, and procedures through staff meetings and verbal and written communications.
• Reviews and updates department documentation and policies and procedures related to the department goals and objectives
• Consults and coordinates with various internal departments, external or business partners, providers and business entities as a representative of the areas of responsibility.
• Prevents downtime, increases system availability, creates capacity plans, monitors performance, provides performance tuning, manages data and/or ensures data integrity
• Ensures proper alerts and notifications are in place, reviewed, and updated
• Evaluates and analyzes data on performance/capacity and reports on key measurements
• Performs product evaluation, product installation, and product upgrade efforts
• Recommends hardware and sizing and implements/installs hardware and software products, as well as new standards and procedures
• Coordinates maintenance effort of supported systems and environmental infrastructure
• Provides and ensures a secure environment and assists other areas in security support
• Develops, tests, and monitors security and internal controls
• Develops procedures that promotes efficient and effective use of system environment and resources
• Addresses technical issues escalated within the team
• Analyzes impact of proposed solutions on applications and systems performance
• Reviews system, technical and internal customer documentation for accurate content
• Explains/trains as subject matter expert on technical concepts of product environments, operating systems, and related utilities
• Performs peer reviews for technical documentation
• Reviews current and emerging information technology and trends and provides short and long term roadmaps

Knowledge Skills & Abilities

• Supervisory role is limited to assigning work and reviewing work of others, does not conduct performance reviews, but has input to IT Lead and Management
• Works under minimal supervision, relying on experience and judgement to plan and accomplish assigned goals
• Performs at a level clearly above that of the related Technical Specialists by demonstrating greater productivity, proficiency, leadership and mastery of job content
• Technical Lead on small to Large projects; participates as subject matter expert in projects of all sizes
• Cloud Architectural Design (Azure)
• SDWAN Architectural Design
• Must be knowledgeable in software-defined networking concepts, to include underlay/overlay networking with preference for Arista experience
• Must be intimately familiar with BGP, to include multi-address family peering

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field 10-15 years network engineering experience
• Networking certifications: CCNA, CCNP or equivalent
• Strong collaboration and interpersonal skills
• Strong knowledge of scaled systems, ability to identify problem areas, uphold network quality, and drive design
• Expert on of WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi technology
• Strong knowledge of IT security requirements and experience working with information security
• Experience with Technical Architecture Framework (TOGAF)
• Experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
• Experience with Lean IT concepts