What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Architect position at Saicon?
TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:
- Expert knowledge of Palo Alto Network Firewall, CloudFlare and, Prisma Cloud and Cisco ASA.
- Expert knowledge of F5 Load Balancers LTM. GTM, WAF,and AWS ELB.
- Advanced 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.
- Expert knowledge of various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and multi-homing Internet circuit configuration
- Proficient knowledge 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, OpManager, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, Sflow etc.
- Administrative scripting skills (Perl, UNIX shell scripting)
- Advanced 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.
- Working knowledge of data center related technology and collocation environment.
- Advanced knowledge of MPLS network.
- Working knowledge of Nexus 9K and VPC
- Advanced knowledge of Forcepoint configuration
- Advanced knowledge and experience with Routing Protocols (BGP, RIP, OSPF, etc)
- Working knowledge of Palo Alto Global Protect VPN
- Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation
- Working knowledge of Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation
- Deep domain expertise in networking, network security and public/private clouds
- Working knowledge deploying and maintaining wireless networks
- Expert knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, VPC, Cloud formation, SSM and Transit gateway
- Working knowledge of deploying and maintaining Microsoft Team PBX VOIP deployments (network side, not telecom), SIP Trunking and Five 9 Content Center
- Working knowledge of deploying and maintaining wireless networks
- Working knowledge of managing network service and similar support providers in a client/vendor relationship
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Advance hands-on experience in Palo Alto firewall, F5 LTM, GTM and WAF
- Advance hands-on experience in AWS cloud
- Extensive hands-on experience in automation with Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform
- AWS solution architect certification and CCNP certification required
- Deep knowledge in Forcepoint
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS:
- Project Management skills
- Ability to think and operate as a team player.
- Extremely strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Ability to operate as independently or as part of collaborative effort.
- Demonstrate strong project leadership and ability to develop strong working relationships with customer technical personnel.
- Strong troubleshooting skills and ability to apply them during business impacting incidents.
- Ability to mentor others and lead by example.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor's degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science, IT, or similar disciplines).
- Equivalent work experience implementing and operating enterprise level data center and/or office networks.
- Experience operating in a modern cloud environment such as AWS, GCP, or Azure or large scale data centers is a plus
- CCNP is the very minimum requirement. CCIE R&S, or CCIE data center certifications and AWS certified solutions architect is a big plus.
CORE COMPETENCIES:
- Act with integrity
- Use sound judgement
- Commitment to quality
- Demonstrate adaptability
- Innovate
- Think strategically
- Communicate effectively and influence others
- Work well both independently and as part of a team