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# Network Architect

- **Company:** Talentify, Inc.
- **Location:** Pleasanton, CA, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Amazon S3, Border Gateway Protocol, VoIP, Cisco PIX, Cisco IOS, Cisco Routers, Data Centers, Perl (Programming Language), Enhanced Interior Gateway Routing Protocol, Monitoring of Systems, Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC), Intrusion Detection Systems, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Multi-protocol Systems, OSI Models, Network Security, Unix Shell, Multicasting, Nagios, NetFlow, Routing, Cisco Nexus Switches, Nmap, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Ansible, Wireshark, Wide Area Networks, Wireless Networks, Network Routers, Websense, Scripting, Computer Networking Systems, Transport Layer Security, Load Balancing, Computer Network Technologies, Nx-os, Firewalls (Computer Science), Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Juniper, Cloudformation, Amazon Relational Database Service, SolarWinds (Software), Nessus, OpenNMS Network Monitoring, Route53, Open Network Automation Platform, Virtual Private Clouds, Cisco
- **Published:** October 4, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/us/en/find-jobs-in-United-States/-E7077206BB00477E2F/

## About the Role

* Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
 * Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA, F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
 * Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience, including various flavors of STP, ARP, QOS, etc.
 * Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols, including broadcast, multicast, anycast concepts, routing, etc.
 * Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)

Technical Skills:

 * Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls, IDS/IPS, and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
 * Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA.
 * Expertise with F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
 * Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience, including various flavors of STP, ARP, QOS, etc.
 * Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols, including broadcast, multicast, anycast concepts, routing, etc.
 * Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
 * Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, SSL, etc.)
 * Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such as Rancid, OpenNMS, Nagios, Solarwinds, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, Sflow etc.
 * Administrative Scripting skills (Perl, UNIX Shell scripting)
 * In-depth knowledge of Cisco IOS, NX-OS, both Cisco Nexus 1K, 2K, 5K 7K, 9K and non-Nexus series switches, Cisco Routers and other Cisco networking gear.
 * Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.
 * In-depth knowledge of MPLS network.
 * Experience in Cisco Fabric interconnect configuration
 * Must have Nexus 9K and VPC experience
 * Advanced knowledge of Cisco, F5, Palo alto firewall, Websense/focepoint, juniper and other vendor equipment and configuration
 * advanced knowledge and experience with routing protocols (bgp, rip, ospf, etc)
 * must have experience in Juniper junos pulse vpn
 * In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation
 * Expertise and Hands-on experience with Ansible or Python Scripting for Network automation
 * Deep domain expertise in networking, network security and public/private clouds
 * Cisco Viptela Sd-wan experience & Cisco DNA center experience

Preferred Skills:

 * Experience deploying and maintaining wireless networks
 * Working knowledge of AWS services ie EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, VPC, Cloud formation, SSM and Transit gateway
 * Experience deploying and maintaining VOIP deployments (network side, not telecom)
 * Project Management Experience
 * Experience with Scripting and Automation technologies