job summary
Exciting opportunity to lead a growing team!
Our customer has an immediate need for a top-notch Network Architect with excellent soft skills and consulting experience. This role will be client facing with some travel.
Remote with 15-25% travel within US. Must be able to work in US without sponsorship.
location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $75 - 100 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities
- Directs on-site engineers and field technicians
- Design ownership on live migrations
- Designs and delivers the move of each acquired company's WAN, edge, campus and site connectivity, including jobsites, yards and remote locations, onto the parent's Cisco SDWAN standard.
- Discover the network estate: circuits and carriers, sites, firewalls, wireless and IP space
- Design the target network, the interim VPN interconnect and the plan for fixing overlapping IP space
- Define segmentation and hardening with the parent company's security architects
- Plan the cutover sequence across sites, carriers and hardware lead times, including the impact on applications and voice
- Move off inherited Palo Alto, Fortinet and Meraki equipment, and deliver Azure network connectivity as workloads move
- Hands-on: Cisco configuration, staging and cutover, directing field crews on site
- Lead a team of Engineers to integrate Network technologies and processes as part of complex acquisition integrations, often joining medium sized (typically private) companies into a publicly held enterprise environment (Fortune 200)
- Typically leading 1 acquisition integration at a time, although that may vary based on size and scope
- Own architecture through hands-on migration and cutover execution
- Own the domain end to end, including discovery, architecture, planning, risk, team leadership and execution
- Perform cutovers that may occur nights/weekends
- Architecture: assess an environment that is usually poorly documented, design the target state against the parent company's standards, and defend it in review with the program architects and the other domain leads
- Planning and risk: estimate effort, set the sequence and the dependencies other domains rely on, and define rollback and go/no-go criteria
- Leadership: direct a small team, coach the acquired company's IT staff, and work across security, compliance and application owners
- Repeatability: turn each deal into reference designs and runbooks so the next integration starts from the last one, and re-plan integrations that are already underway
qualifications
Required Skills:
10+ years of Network Engineering experience
2+ years of recent experience as an Architect, Technical Lead, SME, and/or Lead Consultant including leading field techs and their activities
Advanced to expert level technical skills in Cisco IOS/IOS-XE and SD-WAN design
Advanced to expert level technical skills in BGP/OSPF
Advanced to expert level technical skills in 802.1X/ISE
Proficient with Azure networking
Proficient with Python/Ansible
Advanced to expert level technical skills with Quest On Demand Migration, PowerShell/Graph automation, Exchange hybrid and mail routing
Preferred Skills:
M&A integration experience
Network automation (Zero touch provisioning)
Zero Trust Cloud Security / SASE
CCNP or CCIE
AWS networking
Enterprise WiFi survey and design
Energy or heavy manufacturing/industrial experience
Consulting experience
Experience with SOX and other relevant compliance standards
skills
soft skills
consulting experience