Lead Systems Engineer & Network Architect
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Job Location:
Baltimore, MD - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Lead Systems Engineer & Network Architect
Baltimore Maryland Hybrid Work
Must be eligible to work in the United States no visa sponsorship available
@Orchard LLC is seeking a top technical talent to be the senior Architect and Engineer on the Infrastructure Team supporting the Maryland Department of Health (MDH). This is a hands-on technical role with supervisory responsibilities for a team of Systems Engineers and ancillary team members. The role is an opportunity to demonstrate technical capabilities along with mentoring management and leadership while supporting a 24/7/365 patient-care environment. This is a hybrid-work role with 2-3 days a week spent onsite in Baltimore City MD. You must be willing to support the client if needed fixing issues off-hours and on weekends to maintain uptime.
About the Project
The Maryland Department of Health (MDH) Office of Enterprise Technology (OET) is responsible for the design installation performance management and troubleshooting of all aspects of networking infrastructure down to the switch port for its more than 35 locations located across Marylands 24 local jurisdictions. This includes a Datacenter with a Cisco HyperFlex environment as well as office buildings local health departments and 24x7x365 inpatient care facilities. MDH OET utilizes Cisco products for routing switching wireless networking remote access security hardening and network monitoring.
As the Lead Systems Engineer & Network Architect you will.
- Lead network architecture and design including scalability and capacity planning hardware evaluation and selection and designing efficient infrastructure solutions to meet organizational needs.
- Configure test and deploy Cisco network infrastructure equipment; maintain the Cisco Catalyst Center environment.
- Manage security and compliance by configuring updating administering and troubleshooting Firepower appliances and Cisco ISE.
- Ensure all network infrastructure components meet required security and regulatory standards.
- Provide leadership and mentorship by leading large-scale migrations and hardware refresh projects end-to-end.
- Coach junior and mid-level engineers to enhance technical skills.
- Contribute technical input for annual IT budget planning.
- Act as the final point of escalation for network issues and troubleshooting.
- Utilize monitoring tools to identify bottlenecks and optimize network performance.
- Collaborate on disaster recovery planning including creating and testing failover strategies to ensure high availability
Your background will include.
- Required: Bachelors degree in Systems Engineering CIS Business Administration or a related technical discipline.A Masters degree is preferred.
- At least three (3) years of experience supervising system engineers.
- Demonstrated experience with interactive and interpretive systems including online real-time data acquisition capabilities.
- Must possess a current Enterprise CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certification.
- Strong knowledge and hands-on experience in the following areas:
o Routing protocols: BGP OSPF EIGRP
o Network technologies: VLANs VPC STP Security protocols and architecture: IPsec SSL/TLS Zero Trust
o Cisco Nexus platforms
o Cloud connectivity solutions: Direct Connect ExpressRoute
o VoIP protocols: SCCP SIP H.323 MGCP RTP SRTP QSIG
o Cisco security solutions: ASA FirePower ISE AnyConnect
o Quality of Service (QoS)
o Infrastructure as Code tools: Cisco Catalyst Center Terraform
o Monitoring tools: SolarWinds NetFlow Catalyst Center SNMP
o Troubleshooting and issue resolution
Compensation: The base salary for the role will be determined based on experience and qualifications. Full medical benefits 401K and PTO are provided.
@Orchard LLC is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.
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