Senior Network Solutions Architect

General Purpose and Scope:

Commnet is looking for an experienced Senior Network Solutions Architect in a service provider environment that is customer focused to join the team!

Duties and Responsibilities (include but not limited to):

• The Senior Network Solutions Architect will provide explanations of how enterprise and service provider networks are designed, deployed, operated, and measured to executive decision makers and internal teams.
• Collaborate with our business development and planning teams providing pre-sales engineering through communication, both oral and written, on complex technical and sales issues to a variety of audiences, including internal and external executive level technical decision makers.
• Provide technical training individually or in larger group settings.
• To design, document and quote with a bill of material and/or statements of work for the implementation of network solutions for internal and external customers.
• Design, document, and oversee implementation of core to edge network architecture and routing protocols on our Juniper platforms.
• Final Tier of support of issues within the commercial network.
• IP address forecasting, definition of best practices, and documentation.
• Provide management analysis for root cause determination of issues including recommendations for improvements.
• Write, review, and oversee the implementation of Methods of Procedure (MOPs).
• Work with your director providing a rolling 18 month department budget.
• Working directly with our equipment vendors quoting/negotiating equipment pricing, resolving technical issues, and research/requesting feature enhancements.
• Other duties as assigned by management.
  
  

Required Qualifications:

• The Senior Network Solutions Architect must have a minimum BS/BA in engineering/computer science or 4 or more years equivalent work experience in a network service provider environment.
• 5+ years hands on practice and working knowledge in a Juniper/Cisco environment, on routing (BGP/OSPF/ISIS), Security (FW, IDP, IPS, etc.), WAN routing technologies.
• 2+ Years designing, implementing, and testing MPLS, EVPNs, VPLSs & EPLs in a Juniper service provider environment.
• 2+ Years designing, implementing, and testing enterprise campus LAN & branch solutions, VoIP, 802.11 wireless technology, including trends and the latest state of the art architecture reference models for both cloud and premise-based solutions.
• Proven ability to recognize and bring forth new business opportunities and revenue generating ideas to delight our rural customers.
• Active certification of JNCIP or CCIP or above required.
• Demonstrate knowledge and experience using Juniper EX, MX, ACX, & SRX equipment following the Juniper Universal Access and Aggregation Mobile Backhaul Design Guide.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proven strong analytical skills, accuracy, and attention to detail.
• Demonstrable willingness to meet business critical deadlines.
• Proven time management and organizational skills.
• Demonstrable documentation skills, ability to multi-task, and work independently.

Desired Qualifications:

• Active JNCIE, CISSP and/or CCIE certificates.
• Familiarity with standalone Virtual Machines OS (VMWare ESX and NSX as well as KVM and Open Source),
• Familiarity with cloud-based solution and implementation models (especially using AWS, Azure and Google).
• Familiarity with configuration, testing, and turn up automation in the above environments.
• Experience with designing service provider internet access architecture.
• Experience with SDWAN environments.
• Experience with Security as a Service with multiple security OEMs a plus
• Experience with SNMP, Telemetry, CFM and LFM is a plus
• Experience with DDOS mitigation, intrusion detection, and prevention a plus
• Experience with mobile technologies (2G/3G, 4G and beyond) geo-redundancy routing methods.