Sr. Network Architect || SFO, CA || 12+ Months Contract || USC, GC

Job Title	Sr. Network Architect
Project Location	SFO, CA
Duration	12+ Months Contract

 

Interview Mode: Phone + Skype

Visa: USC, GC

Job Description:

Candidates will have strong understanding  of Agile methodologies and systems/network requirements.

·         Develop, operate and support the Store Network infrastructure.

·         Responsible for a 24x7 network environment where uptime, response and repair are critical to ensuring store systems and services are available at all times.

·         Ensure that all processes, procedures and escalation points have been implemented and followed.

·         Interface with other networking and operations teams, internally and externally, and be directly engaged with developing short-term project plans to align with long-term goals and priorities of IT Infrastructure and Engineering.

·         Proactively monitor all network infrastructure and services.

·         Partner with Architects, Engineers and Operations individuals across a variety of service and infrastructure organizations to resolve issues, provide technical feedback, and contribute to overall architecture direction.

·         Maintain and provide input on standards and best practice network toolset environments with a focus on Fault Management and Capacity/Performance Monitoring tools, management of network systems at scale.

·         Partner with Server and Application owners to ensure their applications have similar degrees of redundancy, resiliency and failover capability on the Store Network infrastructure.

·         Identify research, evaluate and recommend best practice network operations based run books, knowledge, and training.

·         Participate in a tiered support model for highly impacting network related issues and events, interact with venders/partners on escalations and support.

·         Partner with InfoSec to ensure PCI compliance best practices and implemented.

 

QUALIFICATIONS:

·         BS in Computer Science or related Engineering Discipline

·         2. 5+ years of experience in operational hands on experience in highly scalable and availability footprints across various network technologies and distributed systems environment

·         Have experience in large Retail, ISP and/or Content Service Provider environments

·         Able to handle multiple, complex projects and incidents simultaneously

·         Must have implementation and operational experience with; Enterprise/carrier-class routers, switches and firewalls: Juniper, Cisco, Viptela, Juniper SRX, Meraki

·         Must have experience in network security features (ACLs, VPN, L2VPN, L3VPN, IPSEC, GRE) with a focus on Cisco, Juniper and Netscreen platforms.

·         Experience and operational familiarity on BGP, OSPF, OMP and other network routing protocols.

·         Must have knowledge of network switching protocols: STP, 802.1[q,s,w], 802.3ae

·         Familiarity with Unix especially in respect to networking Familiarity with developing tools in scripting e.g perl, shell, python, expect, etc.

·         This candidate will also understand the rigors of operating a global, 24x7x365 large scale network, and will act as a tiered support for high-severity and business impacting issues.

·         Exceptional interpersonal skills, including teamwork, facilitation and negotiation

·         High degree of initiative, dependability and the ability to work with little supervision.

·         Exceptional written and communication skills are a must.

·         Creative problem solving abilities

·         Experience with F5 load balancer, enterprise wide wireless networking technologies, Software Defined Networking and WAN architecture

·         Skilled in Software Defined Networks and capabilities to manage and monitor the network at scale.

·         Experience working in Agile/Scrum environment leveraging tools such as Jira and Service Now.

·         Familiarity with ITIL

 

 

 

Note: We are Working with tier-1 Vendor.

 

Thanks & Regards,

Udbhav Mathur

Talent Acquisition Specialist

Email:- umathur@tekshapers.com

Gtalk: udbhav.intime

Tekshapers Inc. – WMBE Firm

1441 E. Maple Rd, Suite # 301, Troy, MI 48083 

http://www.tekshapers.com

Certification: WMBE Certified | E-Verified Company | ISO 9001:2008

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