Our client is hiring aSenior Network Architect to lead the strategic design, architecture, and evolution of a globalenterprise network environment. This is a highly technical and hands-on role responsible for ensuring the stability, security, scalability, and performance of critical data, wireless, voice, video, and networkinfrastructure.Theideal candidate will bring deep experience designing and managing large-scale LAN, WAN, wireless, data center, security, and SD-WAN environments.
Title: Network Architect
Location: Boston, MA
Responsibilities
- Lead the strategic architecture and design of enterprise network infrastructure.
- Design, deploy, and maintain routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, wireless networks, SD-WAN, load balancing, VoIP, video, and related infrastructure.
- Develop network architecture standards, policies, procedures, and best practices.
- Participate in the design of new offices, data centers, server rooms, and network facilities.
- Design and implement secure network architectures incorporating firewalls, VPNs, network segmentation, NAC, IDS/IPS, DMZs, and related security technologies.
- Develop and maintain comprehensive network architecture and configuration documentation.
- Partner with infrastructure, security, and application teams on enterprise technology initiatives.
- Provide technical leadership on major infrastructure projects from architecture and planning through implementation and testing.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive experience in enterprise networking.
- Extensive experience designing, implementing, and managing complex LAN, WAN, wireless, data center, and security environments.
- Strong experience with Cisco networking technologies, including enterprise routers, switches, data center networking, and firewalls.
- Strong understanding of routing and switching protocols, including BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VLANs, STP, VRRP/HSRP, LACP, QoS,
- Experience with SD-WAN, SDN, network virtualization, VXLAN, network segmentation, and modern enterprise networking architectures.
- Experience with F5 or similar load balancing and application delivery technologies.
- Strong knowledge of DNS, DHCP, IP address management, traffic management, and network services.
- CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, CCDA, CCSP are nice to have
- Experience withAzurecloud networking environments
Compensation
- $200,000-220,000
- Bonus