Senior Network Architect

SENIOR NETWORK ARCHITECT

We require a highly motivated individual, who thrives in a constantly changing and exciting environment, to apply creativity and innovation in the development of solutions essential to support our business objectives, and is able to able to lead change through cross-functional teams or business unit projects.

Responsibilities

Requirements Gathering & Scoping

• Lead and participate in requirements gathering and analysis.
• Define and document scope of work for multiple projects and activities with varying complexity, timelines, and importance within the team.
• Perform scoping and translate customer business requirements into technical specification and scoping documents.
• Translate requirements into detailed design documents (DDD) and technical specifications document (TSD).
• Review architecture documents to ensure solutions proposed by various internal teams, 3rd party vendors, and/or customers meet Customers’ technical and functional business requirements and adhere to all industry and customer specified standards.
• Produce feasibility and effort estimates

Integration/Implementation

• Plan solution delivery steps, deployment phases, and quality assurance guidelines.
• Coordinate with internal and external planning, operations and support teams for project implementation.
• Participate in implementation, verification and acceptance testing of new hardware, software, services, or functionality.
• Configuration of different network elements, Switches, Routers, Firewalls and IPS’s.
• Produce and maintain detailed technical documentation (Architecture,Operations Procedures, and Specifications).
• Develop and deploy automated operational tools to facilitate the management of the system (self scaling, self healing)
• Provide regular reporting of project status, accomplishments, forthcoming milestones, and challenges to Management and Executive team members.
• Provide regular reporting of project status, accomplishments, forthcoming milestones, and challenges to Management and Executive team members.
• Responsible for participation in Change Management procedures including participating in weekly meetings.
• Provide technical consultation to both internal and external teams.
• Establish and build partnerships with other teams and vendors involved in the projects.
• Work with vendors and stakeholders to understand product and solution roadmaps.
• Develop and documents network reference and training material.

Operations

• Manage the network requirements to meet the business demands of a telecommunications and video head end.
• Maintain central database of both public and private IP address space used in Customer network infrastructure.
• Provide network infrastructure capacity and performance reporting and planning.
• Work collaboratively with other internal teams in building out the ongoing network plans and provide recommendations to and tracking of support capacity demands and resiliency.
• Collaborate with Project management, stakeholders on multi-disciplinary teams to act as a key contributor in the planning, implementation and operational support of all mission critical LAN/WAN infrastructure.
• Maintain standards for a datacenter infrastructure and operational effectiveness and ensure availability of networks in Production, Development, Lab and Disaster Recovery environments across multiple datacentres.
• Responsible for leading third line support for incident and request management.
• Operational support for LAN/WAN related network incidents (investigation of element and link failures, network routing, performance, security).
• Track appropriate information and complete ticket, outage and post mortem records as necessary.
• Completes periodic routine maintenance and daily tasks, tracking results and resolving problems as appropriate.
• Monitors network indicators and initiates further testing and corrective action as necessary.
• Provide on-call coverage as required.

Learning & Innovation

• Research new technology to meet applicable availability and security requirements to fulfill customer solution requirements.
• Research the use of best technologies and best practices to help guide and build consistency to introduce new technologies, features and systems.
• Uses experience and knowledge to help propose, document, and drive technical and process improvements
• Contribute and lead improvement initiatives typically associated with delivery times and work efficiency
• Analyze large amounts of data, consolidate and translate that data into business insights
• Mentor and train other colleagues and peers on new systems, technology and networking

Qualifications

Telecom/Broadcast Experience

• Prefer candidates with proven track-record of success
• At least 5-7 years experience in network operations and project support in large complex data center infrastructure with technology from multi-vendors
• Working knowledge of the design of telecom carrier network services (including voice and data services), and Ethernet and Copper based access preferred
• Work experience in a telecommunication or broadcast/cable service provider, both business and technical working backgrounds would be an asset
• Cellular networks knowledge: HSPA, LTE, IMS
• Working knowledge and working experience with Broadcast delivery and transport mechanisms, transport protocols, video encoding/encryption/compression/multiplexing techniques.
• Working knowledge of Video over IP, SD and HD video processing, live and file based transcoding, and mass storage & data delivery systems
• Working knowledge of MPEG 2 + MPEG 4 transport streams and Analyzers
• Supported an infrastructure covering more than 10+ locations
• Support remote access solutions for 1000+ users
• Support infrastructure with more than 200+ servers
• Support infrastructure with more than 100+ network and firewall devices
• Delivered large project implementations involving multiple teams
• Worked in technical departments to produce detailed documentation
• Proven experience as a technical team lead supporting complex network and security projects.

Networking (Server, Switching, Security) Experience incl. Virtualization

• Advanced knowledge of and experience with servers (physical and virtual design) as well as different operating systems (Windows and Linux)
• Excellent knowledge and experience in enterprise data center infrastructure
• Advanced knowledge and sufficient experience in network and system clustering in a multi-tiered, high transaction volume environment
• Advanced knowledge and experience in system clustering in a multi-tiered, high transaction volume environment is considered an asset
• Advanced knowledge and experience in technical architecture design (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, protocol flows) and hands-on experience with middleware server components (e.g., HP, Oracle)
• Experience in the implementation and support of high availability environments
• Knowledge of virtualization technologies
• Knowledge of WAN technologies : MPLS ,DWDM
• Advanced knowledge of routing protocols ( BGP, EIGRP, OSPF )
• Advanced knowledge of Cisco technologies ( CCIE would be an asset )
• Advanced knowledge of IP networking
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP protocol suite and layer 2/3 architectures.
• Advanced knowledge and experience in complex network infrastructure (i.e. routers, switches, gateway, firewalls, IDS/IPS, SSL, UTM, load balancing, ACLs, and VPN technologies)
• Knowledge and experience with multiple key manufacture technologies: Cisco, F5, CheckPoint, Fortinet, Solarwinds, Juniper, Foundry, Sidewinder, Nokia, Hypercom, RSA, Ciena
• Excellent network troubleshooting skills, efficient problem-solving methodology, knowledgeable in packet analysis and troubleshooting/debug commands on operating systems Cisco(IOS), Juniper(JUNOS), Fortinet, CheckPoint, Unix/Linux/HpUx, Windows, and Linux (Redhat, Ubuntu, CentOS)
• Knowledge of ITIL framework

Testing & Automation

• Experience in working with various network debug and monitoring tools
• Knowledge of automation tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
• Understanding of Agile / DevOps / Lean / Six Sigma. Experience working with these methodologies preferred.
• Able to write code to automate processes and orchestrate deployments (Python, Ruby, Java, Shell or Perl etc) and manage code (GIT, SVN etc)

Scoping & Technical Writing

• Ability to translate legacy designs to next generation solutions and map them into technical requirements
• Advanced technical writing skills with emphasis on translating “technical speak” into business language is an asset
• Proficient knowledge and experience in Microsoft VISIO

Education & Certifications

• A university degree in Computer Science, Engineering,Telecommunications
• Various Cisco certifications from CCNA to CCIE
• Network and Security certifications (CCNP, JNCIS, CCSE)
• Checkpoint certificates
• Any other technical certificates will be an asset

Soft Skills

• Strong combination of business acumen, relationship management and solution designing
• Must be able to work well cross-functionally and create consensus and negotiate deliverables
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational, and problem solving skills
• Strong time management skills and work ethic (highly motivated) to manage multiple projects/accountabilities
• A strong sense of accountability towards objectives
• Excellent analytical, problem solving and decision making skills with a strong attention to detail
• Strong aptitude to recognize opportunities for improvement in day-to-day work and take appropriate actions
• In-depth knowledge through self-motivated learning and hands-on experience with networking technologies within a security environment
• Ability to perform multiple, technical, highly complex tasks in a dynamic work environment
• Ability to review and interpret complex technical information and analyze situations to define issues, draw conclusions and provide a final solution
• Ability to schedule activities and meetings; gather and collate data independently
• Ability to effectively manage multiple changing priorities, projects, and activities
• Strong team player, works collaboratively with others to achieve goals
• Excellent in communication (both oral and written) and organizational skills; advanced technical writing skills with emphasis on conveying technical information to non-technical audiences
• Able to work off hours during Customer maintenance change windows and participate in on-call rotation support
• Ability to work effectively in a high volume environment that is subject to frequent change.

To Apply, please email your resume to
careers@techlinknetworks.com