Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Network Architect to join our team at our client’s site in Washington, DC.

The Network Architect will provide Network Engineering, Design, Administration and Support for network infrastructure in centralized datacenters, District offices, and in a lab environment. The Network Architect shall be technically proficient in highly complex, enterprise-scale network solutions, data center and campus network design, engineering, implementation, security, and operational support; and capable of effectively troubleshooting advanced, multi-layer network systems. In completing tasks and making recommendations, the contractor shall reconcile current industry best practices with existing and projected requirements.

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• A minimum of 10 years of professional, full-time years of LAN/WAN architecture design experience in an enterprise IT environment similar in size and scope to the Client's requirement Designing, implementing, and troubleshooting complex enterprise WAN and LAN with multiple platforms and technologies.
• Expertise shall include configuration & troubleshooting of routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF; configuration, management, deployment, and troubleshooting Cisco 2900, 3800, 3900, 7200, 7600, ASR 1006, 1002 series routers; configuration, management, automated deployment, and troubleshooting of Cisco Catalyst 3560, 3800, 4400, 4500, 9300 and 9500 switches in a complex, multi-VLAN network environment.
• Configuration, management, deployment, and troubleshooting Nexus 7000 and 5000 switches, including but not limited to configuration of M and F series modules, VDCs, VPC, VLANs, 802.1q, port channels, and QoS.
• Configuration, management, deployment and troubleshooting of Cisco ACE, F5 (LTM) Load balancers to provide efficient switching and routing for local and global traffic.
• Configuration, deployment, management and troubleshooting of Cisco ASA firewalls, including but not limited to NAT, PAT, VPN, Route maps, VLAN, and ACL
• Managing and securing remote access through using IPsec, SSL and Dynamic VPN technologies, and Client-to-Site VPN.
• P v4 and IP v6 addressing scheme, planning and implementation.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• A completed bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer networks & Engineering or Cyber Security

Security Clearance: Interim Secret

Blackstone Talent Group is a division of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and solutions firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone’s global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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