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# Network Architect - Florida DBPR

- **Company:** VF International Holdings, LLC
- **Location:** Tallahassee, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $145,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Wireless LAN, Cloud Computing, Disaster Recovery, Storage Area Network (SAN), Network Monitoring, Performance Tuning, Software Engineering, Network Switches, Scripting, Load Balancing, System Availability, Firewalls (Computer Science), Juniper, IronPort, Firewall Services Module, Cisco
- **Published:** September 21, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=08dcfffe9315203a

## About the Role

Candidates must have more than five years of experience in enterprise IT support and each of the following areas:

· LAN, WLAN, and WAN design, implementation, and support

· Cisco and Juniper network switches

· Kemp and F5 load balancers

· Storage Area Network design and maintenance

· Palo Alto next-generation firewalls

· ACLs, firewall policies, and proxy policies

· Cisco IronPort or comparable mail-gateway management

· PRI and SIP trunks

· Cloud networking and hybrid connectivity

· Cisco Unified Communications:

o Cisco UCM

o UCCX

o Unity Connection

· Disaster recovery, high availability, and network resiliency

· Network monitoring, troubleshooting, configuration, maintenance, performance optimization, incident response, and security

Preferred Experience

· Previous State of Florida technical staff-augmentation experience

· Unified Communications environment support

· Application design or scripting familiarity

· Mentoring and knowledge transfer

Recruiter Screening Questions

 1. Are you available to work onsite in Tallahassee five days per week?

 2. Do you have more than five years of enterprise network-support experience?

 3. How many years have you worked with Cisco and Juniper switches?

 4. What hands-on experience do you have with both Kemp and F5 load balancers?

 5. Have you designed or maintained Storage Area Networks?

 6. What is your experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Cisco IronPort?

 7. Have you supported Cisco UCM, UCCX, and Unity Connection?

 8. What experience do you have with PRI and SIP trunks?

 9. Have you designed high-availability or disaster-recovery network solutions?

 10. What cloud platforms and hybrid-connectivity solutions have you supported?

 11. Have you previously worked for a Florida state agency?

 12. Can you support occasional after-hours, weekend, or holiday work?

## Description

DBPR is seeking a senior Network Architect to design, implement, maintain, secure, and troubleshoot its enterprise network infrastructure. The consultant must work onsite and may occasionally need to support after-hours, weekend, or holiday activities.