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Job Title

Lead enterprise network team in design, deployment and support expectations for enterprise networking platform on-premise and cloud hosted.

Job Requirements

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Must Haves

• Bachelors degree in computer related field and 8+ years related experience or AS degree and 10+ years of related experience
• Must possess at least 8 years of experience supporting a complex enterprise networking environment.
• Experience with datacenter management, consolidation, IT operations, and M&A activities.
• Incumbent must hold one or more of the following: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), VMware Certified Professional Network Virtualization (VCP-NV), CompTIA Network+
• Extensive Experience with the following:
• Enterprise Switching/Routing (L2/L3) Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, Arista
• Cisco Edge Routers (ASR, ISR)
• Firewall/IPS/IDS (Palo Alto)
• VPN (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto)
• SDWAN Technologies (SilverPeak, Arista, Palo Alto)
• Microsoft Azure Networking Services (VNet, NSG, Azure Firewalls, Traffic Manager, etc.)
• Load Balancing Technology (F5, Azure, Cloudflare, Citrix Netscaler)
• Infoblox BloxOne DDI (IPAM/DNS/DNS Protection)
• DIA & MPLS Carrier Management
• Collaboration Technologies with Enterprise Voice (Microsoft Teams)
• Network Configuration/Monitoring (PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios)
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role

Nice to Haves

• Security+ and Cloud+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and CompTIA Network+
• CCNP Cloud, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, Azure Administrator Associate, or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) L3-L5.
• Significant Experience with DNS/DHCP/NAT/FW Security.
• Experience with Cloud Security Appliances and Security Solutions (CASB).
• Knowledge and experience working with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
• Knowledge and experience supporting a Microsoft Windows network.

Job Description

• Leads enterprise network team in design, deployment and support expectations for enterprise networking platform on-premise and cloud hosted.
• Responsible for assuring all enterprise networks platforms are efficiently architected/designed, deployed, and optimized to ensure future growth and comply with industry and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures status reports/logging is digested to accurately capture, evaluate, and optimize enterprise network.
• Work closely with 3rd parties, affiliates, and cross functional teams to ensure enterprise and engineering platforms operate efficiently and securely across the enterprise network, private networks, and public internet services.
• Solves problems and makes decisions daily relative to network issues. Ensures that effective representation takes place for the coordination of work processes and projects with other departments and divisions.
• Participate in all Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) activities including due diligence, data gathering, and leading integration efforts.
• Designs a roadmap for the creation/expansion of existing enterprise network to scale-out through M&A activities while maintaining command, control, compliance of the global enterprise network across all USA sites.
• Reviews and enhances IT policy and procedures to ensure all IT platforms are compliant with corporate policies and guidelines with regards to enterprise networking.
• Ensure adequate staff/scheduling of Network Engineers for both daily and on-call operations providing 24/7 support for the production enterprise network.
• Participate in ongoing optimization and preparation for disaster preparedness including supporting key roles in the Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP)
• Provides value by bringing a passion to continually discover ways to improve current processes and suggest new processes to add growing value.
• Assists in business analysis to determine and clarify informational requirements and business opportunities.
• Maintains a central source of information such as a knowledge base enabling support staff to recover from outages with minimal disruption to expected service levels.
• Lifecycle management of all enterprise networking software and hardware. This includes budgetary responsibility over enterprise networking product evaluation, purchase/upgrades, renewals, and decommission.
• Interacts with vendors, suppliers, and contractors for equipment and carrier services.

Security Responsibilities

• Must comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.
• Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form.
• Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know. Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.
• All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.
• Incumbent must be eligible for DoD Personal Security Clearance.
• Due to U.S. Government contract requirements, only U.S. citizens are eligible for this role.
• Work Environment
• Duties performed in an office environment and manufacturing facility.
• Must be able to work overtime, on and off-shifts as required.
• The employee is on call 24x7 for the resolution of problems and issues.

Physical Demands

• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Employees are regularly required to sit, talk or hear, in person, in meetings and by telephone.
• Manual dexterity to operate computers or other standard office equipment; and reach with hands and arms.
• Able to support rack mounted equipment (up to 7 feet off the ground).