Network Solutions Architect

The Level 2 Network Engineering (network consultant) team is responsible for ensuring availability, performance, and security of the network infrastructure. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on network infrastructure design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You are focused on creating engineering solutions to operations problems, optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues.

Our ideal candidate is highly autonomous, possesses effective written and verbal communication skills, a strong sense of ownership, adapts quickly to new technologies, and has high career growth potential. The desire and ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment is essential.

Essential Functions :

• Develop network architecture for a multi-tenant enterprise environment.
• Be responsible for the lifecycle of architecture from inception to working with engineering teams on implementation and supportability of design.
• Build reusable designs and systems that promote scale, reliability, security and efficiency.
• Manage and maintain multi-vendor, multi-protocol datacenter and backbone networks.
• Define and develop optimized network monitoring systems.
• Develop and maintain consistency within the networking infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot and remedy network related issues.
• Ability to participate in a regular on-call rotation.
• Analyze complex business problems and issues as it relates to enterprise network infrastructure.
• Provide technical guidance to IT professionals to correct issues encountered with network software & connectivity.
• Manage the needs of multiple customers, prioritize needs and manage the daily workload.
• Assist with internal projects as necessary, and work with project managers to set the scope and timelines of new projects to meet completion deadlines.
• Interface with all levels of employees internally and within client businesses to support engagement requirements (business owners, project managers, customer employees, and executive management).
• Write technical procedural documentation for co-workers and for delegated tasks.

Required Education, Knowledge, and Experience :