Advisor IT Network

Job Summary

This IT Advisor position is part of the Network Operations team and will help support Continentals data center corporate and field network. This position is handson meaning the candidate will be performing configuration troubleshooting and daily maintenance on the companys routers switches and firewalls. The IT Advisor occupies a critical role within their area of expertise by providing architectural direction to optimize hardware and software technology usage. Guided by the directives of both IT Management and IT Principal Architects they ensure alignment of solutions with strategic roadmaps.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Fosters development adoption and assurance of technology standards

• Collaborates with peers to select implement and manage technologies within established frameworks

• Demonstrates technical architectural knowledge playing a vital role in the design of production test and development platforms running in 24x7 environments.

• Participates in the development of architectural strategy with other advisors including technology strategy standardization and modernization.

• Mentors other advisors and analysts to elevate and inspire others while fostering a collaborative environment.

• Analyzes business and technical requirements to determine system design potential issues and related cost for each project request.

• Develops implementation strategies that preserve the confidentiality integrity and availability of systems while keeping within cost constraints.

• Works with vendors outside peers and other industries to evaluate and discuss problems and solutions.

• Leads assessments and evaluations of complex problems and solutions which requires strong collaboration and communication skills across varying levels within the organization.

• Prepares and presents recommendations with supporting analysis for consideration by IT Leadership.

• Other duties as assigned

Skills and Competencies

• Demonstrated technical architectural knowledge

• Familiarity with network services (e.g. DHCP DNS NAC 802.1x) RADIUS TACACS QoS VPN VoIP VxLAN).

• Experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.

• Experience or familiarity with Next Generation Firewalls Cisco and Palo Alto.

• Experience with internal and external load balancing technologies like Netscaler F5 Cloudflare etc.

• Skilled in automating network processes through scripting in Python Bash or similar languages.

• Expert level knowledge of Layer 2 and 3 technologies (OSPF BGP vPC Spanning Tree VXLAN/EVPN IPsec multicast) and other complex network protocols that are required to ensure optimal network operations.

• Strong experience with Cisco routers and switches (IOSXE NXOS) Cisco security appliances (FirePower ASA AnyConnect) Palo Alto products (Panorama NGFWs Prisma Access/Cloud) Network Access Control solutions (Cisco ISE Aruba ClearPass) and NetScaler load balancers is essential.

• Demonstrated experience with modern Cloud Infrastructure / Campus Enterprise and Data Center Network Design / SDWAN / Security Architecture releases and implementations. Demonstrate technical architectural knowledge playing a vital role in the design of

Required Qualifications

• High school diploma

• Minimum of ten 10 years of experience working as a Network Analyst or related role

• General understanding of server OS functionality and operation of core services IIS file shares and permissions.

• An acceptable preemployment background and drug test.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science MIS or related field from an accredited college or university.

• Experience within the oil and gas Industry

• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or demonstrable experience.

• Additional certifications or demonstrable experience in other networking technologies such as Aruba Palo Alto or Netscaler.

• Experience with VoIP especially migrations from onprem to cloud.

Physical Requirements and Working Conditions

• Requires prolonged sitting some bending and stooping.

• Occasional lifting up to 25 pounds.

• Manual dexterity sufficient to operate a computer keyboard and calculator.

Continental Resources Inc. provides equal employment and affirmative action opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to race color religion sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) age sexual orientation gender identity national origin protected veteran status or disability.

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