Job Title:
Senior Network Architect
Job Overview:
We are seeking a highly experienced Senior Network Architect to drive the technical vision and strategy for complex projects.
This role will be responsible for developing high-performance, scalable, and resilient systems to support enterprise-level applications and services.
You will provide guidance and mentorship to engineers across teams, fostering technical growth and promoting best practices.
Key Responsibilities:
* Develop and drive the technical vision and strategy for complex projects, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives and long-term goals.
* Architect and implement high-performance, scalable, and resilient systems to support enterprise-level applications and services.
* Provide guidance and mentorship to engineers across teams, fostering technical growth and promoting best practices.
* Partner with product managers, operations, and other engineering leaders to define requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
* Lead efforts to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve critical system issues, ensuring reliability and performance.
* Research and recommend emerging technologies, tools, and methodologies to advance the organization's technical capabilities and maintain a competitive edge.
* Advocate for and enforce coding best practices, design patterns, and technical standards across engineering teams.
* Facilitate architecture reviews, code reviews, and design discussions to ensure technical excellence and alignment with organizational standards.
* Identify and implement improvements in development workflows, automation, and system monitoring to enhance efficiency and reliability.
Requirements:
To be considered for this role, you must have:
* A minimum of 12 years of relevant work experience and a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Preferred Qualifications:
PREFERRED qualifications include:
* 5+ years of experience in network design and implementation.
* 5+ years of experience supporting networks at an L3 level.
* Expert level multi-vendor experience with routing and switching equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Arista.
* Expert level wireless experience, preferably Aruba networks based implementations.
* Expert level VoIP implementation and operations experience on cisco based networks.
* Expert level understanding of TCP/IP, IPv4/IPv6.
* Expert level BGP and OSPF.
* Proficiency in modern development languages such as Python, C++.
* Experience developing tools to drive efficiency in operations tasks and automation.
* Expert level troubleshooting skills.
* Understanding of Multicast technologies such as PIM and PIM-BIDIR.
* Experience with QoS and implementation strategies on both Wired and Wireless.
* Experience with Aruba Airwave Management Platform.
* Experience optimizing and operating wireless systems and RF environments.
* Experience with L2 technologies such as MLAG and VPC.
* Functional knowledge of *nix environments.
* Excellent communication and documentation skills.
* Relevant expert level certifications (CCIE, JNCIE, etc) preferred.