Network Architect

Job Description

Insight Global is seeking a Network Architect to join one of their clients in Dallas, TX. The Network Architect will provide technical leadership for a team of engineers, provide proposal and solutions development, create technology roadmaps and internal documentation, and build / maintain vendor relations.

In addition, the Network Architect will work directly with internal customers to create formalized requirement packages. This role ensures optimal performance, security, and cost-efficiency; oversees project compliance; and drives automation / continuous improvement across all networks.

Day to Day responsibilities :

Serve as the expert in all networking aspects of the IT Operations. This includes direct services provided by the client and indirect services provided by services providers

Work with management to maintain and continue optimizing network services and costs

Architect strategic solutions to address all aspects of network infrastructure design and architecture, lead installations as well as troubleshooting and service outage resolution

Oversite of maintaining the integrity of the network boundaries, setting up firewalls (Firepower, Fortigate), IDS / IPS / protections and other defenses against cyber security threats

Develop and routinely provide system performance metrics, creates and maintains a map of the entire network and remote site connectivity, complete with inventory of software / hardware used in the topology of the design

Develop, maintain and test network centric disaster recovery plans and incident response plans

Perform capacity planning, tuning, and develop / document standards for all aspects of network infrastructure

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Skills and Requirements

Bachelor's degree, preferably IT or Computer Science discipline required

8+ years' combined network engineering and leadership experience

Must have hands on automation experience using scripting languages (Python preferred)

Exhibited experience in development of comprehensive proposals from formalized network requirements capture.

Extensive support and collaboration experience across vendor, customer and peer groups

Extensive experience in the following areas : outing (SDWAN / BGP / OSPF), Switching (VLAN / VXLAN),Firewalls (Firepower / Fortigate), Load balancers (Netscaler),Gateways, Data and voice convergence (Cisco UC), Video services,

Network protocols, Datacenter networking (VXLAN) Cloud services network integration (Azure Networking), Wireless technologies (Cisco WLC), Supplier management for carriers and service providers

Extensive experience troubleshooting multi-tier Internet applications platforms and cloud networking interfaces

Deep understanding of network protocols, and their applications and characteristic behaviors

Experience performing assessments / audits and implementing necessary network security and audit controls to address discovered issues, weakness and or regulatory requirements

Experience of working with application and network layer cryptography and virtualization

Competency in leveraging tools to enhance network engineering, monitoring, automation, and troubleshooting - Cisco Certified (CCNP +) or Fortinet Certified (FCSS +) preferred