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# Network Deployment Engineer/Architect

- **Company:** Job Cloud Inc.
- **Location:** United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Excel, Link Aggregation (Ethernet), Border Gateway Protocol, Catalyst (Software), Jinja (Template Engine), Python (Programming Language), Microsoft Visio, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Lucidchart, Ansible, Virtual Local Area Networks, Virtual Router Redundancy Protocols, Wide Area Networks, Digital Access Carrier System, Juniper, Cisco, Servicenow
- **Published:** October 31, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/d813da91-e0a7-43e2-bd61-602794bdf776

## About the Role

* 8+ years of enterprise network engineering, including at least 3 years writing HLDs and LLDs for campus and branch sites.
 * Hands-on Arista EOS on the LCM 2.0 platforms (7280R3, 7050X3, 720XP/720DT, 750-series chassis): MLAG, LACP, VLANs, OSPF/BGP, VARP/VRRP, PoE budgets.
 * Cisco IOS-XE WAN edge (ISR 4000 to Catalyst 8500L), and enough legacy Catalyst to read the configurations being replaced., * Python, Ansible or Jinja to generate configurations from cut sheets.
 * Juniper Mist wireless, and Versa SD-WAN (Project Ether appliances share several LCM sites).
 * Check Point to Palo Alto migrations, Arista CloudVision, Panorama templates.
 * Arista ACE (L3 or higher), Cisco CCNP Enterprise or Palo Alto PCNSE.
 * Spanish or Portuguese, for São Paulo and Latin America partners.

## Description

* Palo Alto NGFW (PA-3400 series, PAN-OS, Panorama): HA pairs, zones, and interface and routing changes mid-cutover.
 * Cutover leadership: port-for-port migrations, MOPs, pre- and post-checks, rollback calls, and running weekend bridges with customer, partner and field teams.
 * Physical layer and out-of-band: optics and DACs, fiber and copper, rack elevations, PDU and power budgets, Opengear console servers with cellular failover. Enough to direct remote hands precisely.
 * Tools: Nautobot or NetBox, ServiceNow change management, Visio or Lucidchart, Excel cut sheets.
 * Writes designs a reviewer can approve in one pass.
 * Based in a US time zone, available for weekend windows, and able to pass NVIDIA's contingent-worker background check.