Network Architect

• 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

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., 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