Network Architect

Must Haves:

• Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
• Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA, F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
• Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience, including various flavors of STP, ARP, QOS, etc.
• Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols, including broadcast, multicast, anycast concepts, routing, etc.
• Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)

Technical Skills:

• Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
• Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA.
• Expertise with F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
• Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience, including various flavors of STP, ARP, QOS, etc.
• Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols, including broadcast, multicast, anycast concepts, routing, etc.
• Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, SSL, etc.)
• Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such as Rancid, OpenNMS, Nagios, Solarwinds, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, Sflow etc.
• Administrative scripting skills (Perl, UNIX shell scripting)
• In-depth knowledge of Cisco IOS, NX-OS, both Cisco Nexus 1K, 2K, 5K 7K, 9K and non-Nexus series switches, Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.
• Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.
• In-depth knowledge of MPLS network.
• Experience in Cisco Fabric interconnect configuration
• Must have Nexus 9K and VPC experience
• Advanced knowledge of Cisco, F5, Palo alto firewall, Websense/focepoint, juniper and other vendor equipment and configuration
• advanced knowledge and experience with routing protocols (bgp, rip, ospf, etc)
• must have experience in Juniper junos pulse vpn
• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation
• Expertise and Hands-on experience with Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation
• Deep domain expertise in networking, network security and public/private clouds
• Cisco Viptela Sd-wan experience & Cisco DNA center experience

Preferred Skills:

• Experience deploying and maintaining wireless networks
• Working knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, VPC, Cloud formation, SSM and Transit gateway
• Experience deploying and maintaining VOIP deployments (network side, not telecom)
• Project Management Experience
• Experience with Scripting and Automation technologies