Network Architect | W2 Only | Hybrid.

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Network Architect
Location: Spring, TX. Hybrid.
Contract Role.

Essential Responsibilities

- Work closely with business management to resolve business process and productivity needs and an appropriate technology strategy to support business goals.

- Analyze technical needs, requirements, and state of the networks infrastructure design, integration, and operations.

- Work with technical management to architect networks that effectively reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements, and other technology parameters.

- Develop design principles, models, plans, internal standards, budgets, and processes based on industry best practices.

- Establish governing principles for network design and deployment.

- Participate in selection of networking technologies and products for implementation

- Must have strong communication skills, presentation skills, ownership acumen, and be able to deconstruct complex problems and projects into execution detail

- Lead teams of other network designers and engineers in developing detailed designs and quality-control mechanisms during implementation.

- Continually update understanding of business and technology status and objectives and respond to strategic design requests as the business evolves.

- In-depth understanding of business strategy and ability to communicate effectively effectively with senior business leaders and C-level executives.

Required Skills

- Expert knowledge and experience configuring and operating Cisco, Juniper, Brocade and Arista switches and routers. CCIE, CCNP and Juniper certifications preferred

- Expert in Carrier technologies including but not limited to: BGP, VRF Lite, ISIS, MPLS, BFD, CCC, GRE and RSVP

- Expert in Routing Protocols including but not limited to: IBGP, OSPF, VRRP, VARP, HSRP, and PBR

- Expert in administering firewall policies on multiple platforms: Palo Alto, Juniper, Cisco & Fortinet

- Experience with configuration, installation, troubleshooting, and supporting network equipment, wireless access points, firewall policies across different platforms

- Detailed oriented and organized

- Excellent client relationship skills

- Excellent documentation skills using Microsoft Office and Visio

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills

- Ability to work early mornings and/or late nights to execute critical network changes

- Ability to travel

- Ability to learn new and unfamiliar technologies and products, independently using documentation and online resources

- Works well in a fast pace environment with tight timelines for deliverable's

- CCIE Certification is preferred.