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- Conceptualize, design and document the network solution, that meets or exceeds the requirements of the business, utilizing a reference architecture and established best practices.
- Technical subject matter expert for changes and implementations, ensuring the implementation adheres to the proposed design and follows change control procedures.
- Engage in project communications using a consultative approach, anticipate obstacles, analyze risk, and recommend steps to mitigate.
- Develop a sound understanding of organization' s functional and business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables.
- Ensure designs and infrastructure solutions fulfill functional and technical requirements, adhere to processes and standards, favor simplicity over complexity, and promote supportability.
- Provide advanced technical expertise and oversight for the resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams.
- Employ a servant leader approach to assisting and mentoring associates with a team first mentality that promotes continuity, cross-training, technical competence, and team resiliency.
- Support network device deployment, configuration, management, and lifecycle.
- Design and implement efficiency, consolidation, high availability, resiliency, and best practices across the routing, switching, IaaS, and WAN environments.
- Maintain skill set and stay abreast of emerging technologies and issues
- Coordinate network maintenance/downtime with IT and lines of business
- Advocate adherence to IT policies, procedures, and IT general controls
- Assists in completion of mandatory annual regulatory compliance exams.
- Provide day to day support of overall network infrastructure.
- Adheres to all organizational policies and procedures.
- Participate in rotating on-call support of server/storage environment.
- Proactively creates accurate, representative, and usable network diagrams & documentation.
- Populates common solutions database and participates in problem resolution and RCA.
- Occasional travel may be required. (Less than 10%)
- Bachelor' s degree in technology, engineering, MIS, or additional experience in lieu of degree
- Ten or more years of directly related work experience with increasing responsibilities
- Cisco CCNP Enterprise or CCNP Data Center plus CCNP Security
- High level of proficiency with firewall solutions such as Checkpoint, Fortinet, and/or Palo Alto,
- Expert level proficiency designing and architecting Cisco enterprise level switching and routing solutions connecting datacenter, CoLo, IaaS, and remote offices in a hybrid environment.
- Significant experience creating networking solutions for modular/blade server solutions and Storage Area Networks supporting enterprise virtualization. (VMware and Hyper-V)
- Expert level proficiency with subnetting, DNS, MPLS, STP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IPSEC, TCPIP, DHCP/IP address management, and packet capture and inspection.
- Intermediate proficiency with load balancing, high availability and disaster recovery HA/DR
- Intermediate proficiency in network security and network hardening.
- Proven track record of planning, coordinating and executing IT initiatives at scale
- Excellent technical skills as well as strong team orientation and communication
- Proficient using configuration automation including server builds and user provisioning
- Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution, and customer service skills. Works effectively as a member of a high-performing team.
- Strong capabilities around configuration management, capacity planning, and analysis,
- Understands systems dependencies and interrelation to the business.
- Ability to analyze complex, cross-functional and cross-platform issues.
- Champion of following established best practices, continuous improvement, prioritizing cyber hygiene, and avoiding and, where possible, reducing technical debt.
- Working knowledge of system monitoring and alerting tools, including Solarwinds
- Able to engage in a professional manner with all levels of management and staff
- Demonstrates initiative, the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and size work efforts
- Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure
- Intermediate proficiency with Cisco Meraki solutions
- Proficient supporting Cisco Voice and Collaboration solutions (UCCX, Call Manager, Webex)
- Working knowledge of configuration management, ITSM, FitSM, ITIL
- Certifications in Forescout Suite, Checkpoint Firewall, F5, other Network Security
- Experience as part of an Agile/DevOps team and sprint-based work execution
- Experience implementing Zero Trust Network Access solutions
- Experience implementing (Firewall as a Service) FWaaS and SD-WAN
- Strong Vendor Management Skills
- Working knowledge of current Cisco Licensing
- Aptitude for critical, abstract, and double loop thinking
- Experience working in Financial Services and meeting FFIEC, FDIC regulatory requirements
- ID: #23785922
- State: Texas Mckinney 75069 Mckinney USA
- City: Mckinney
- Salary: USD TBD TBD
- Job type: Permanent
- Showed: 2021-12-03
- Deadline: 2022-01-31
- Category: Architect/engineer/CAD