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Company Description
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
The Senior Network Architect explores data science and emerging technologies focused on optimizing efficiencies, improving standards, and supporting new business opportunities. They provide technical guidance to the Product Team for the development of new products and improvement of existing product offerings. The Senior Network Architect is responsible for research and recommendation of hardware selection and software standards needed for growth of capacity and features. They lead in the definition and automation of standard network designs to assist with improvement of engineering deployment schedules. The Senior Network Architect will provide technical expertise for complex network architectures and tactical support for challenges that require escalation.
Responsibilities
*Evaluate leading and emerging technologies including automation, software-defined networking, machine learning and deep learning, segment routing and other backbone architectures, flowspec and DDOS mitigation strategies, and others.
*Champion architectures to meet current and future engineering, systems, and development requirements. Assist in the design, deployment, and documentation of these technologies.
*Develop new initiatives to simplify, optimize, standardize, and automate network designs. Create tooling to enhance operations, shorten implementation cycle, reduce service downtime, improve performance, and ensure that all security and compliance requirements are fully governed.
*Research and devise innovative proof-of-concept simulations of potential internal and external products for consideration by Product Management and Architecture leadership.
*Leverage scripting experience in PHP, PERL, PYTHON, Ansible, and BASH shell scripts to automate configuration generation, deployment, auditing, and reporting.
*Make hardware and software upgrade recommendations for core and end-site equipment to promote growing company business objectives. Lead the efforts for validation testing of planned architectures and equipment to demonstrate their effectiveness.
*Investigate published security advisories, determine scope of impact, and recommend the best course of action to mitigate possible threats.
*Collaborate in the development of the company's technology roadmap. Support the Product Managers to develop and support new product strategies and enhance existing service offerings.
*Provide training and knowledge transfer for engineering to support new technologies and improve operational efficiencies.
*Be a point of escalation for technical support personnel.
*Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
*Minimum of 15 years of experience as a network engineer or architect in a telecommunications service provider network with significant and demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and supporting large scale multi-protocol networks.
*Must be a creative thinker and able to solve complex problems.
*Should currently hold or be working towards Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert certification.
*Candidates with demonstrated ability to learn quickly, work under pressure, and grasp both technical and business-related nuance in a rapidly changing environment will be considered first.
*Demonstrated in-depth knowledge of service provider, data center, wireless, and security strategies. Experienced with design and support of both geographically dispersed and significantly sized deployments.
*Superior knowledge of Internet architectures, WAN routing, LAN switching, and packet tracing.
*Requires a thorough understanding of service provider architectures and technologies, including: MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, SD-WAN, MP-BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS, H-QoS, and IPSec.
*Ansible, Python, or similar experience in network automation and a moderate Linux acumen are required.
*Must have extensive experience with Cisco IOS, IOS-XR, NX-OS, FortiOS CLI.
*Proficiency in Microsoft office products: Excel, Word, PowerPoint, and Outlook.
Base pay range: $95,600 - $150,000, commensurate with experience
Benefits, Rewards & Wellness
Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
Fitness membership discounts
Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave
Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
Zayo is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected Veteran status. EEO IS THE LAW Zayo invites any applicant and/or employee to review the Company’s written Affirmative Action Plan. This plan is available for inspection upon request by emailing our People Ops team.Full Time
Filmed Entertainment
$81k-101k (estimate)
02/12/2024
04/03/2024
zayo.com
ENCINITAS, CA
3,000 - 7,500
2007
Private
ASHLEY DIAN CARNEY DAVIS
$1B - $3B
Filmed Entertainment
Zayo is an infrastructure and communication company that provides fiber, bandwidth connectivity and colocation management solutions for enterprises.
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