Network Architect
Vacaville, CA - USA
Job Summary
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
Desired Qualifications
- Expert knowledge of Palo Alto Network Firewall CloudFlare and Prisma Cloud and Cisco ASA.
- Expert knowledge of F5 Load Balancers LTM. GTM WAFand AWS ELB.
- Advanced OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience including various flavors of STP ARP QOS etc.
- Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols including broadcast multicast anycast concepts routing etc.
- Expert knowledge of various routing protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP) and multi-homing Internet circuit configuration
- Proficient knowledge of network security methodologies as a whole including but not limited to: ACLs Stateful firewalls VPNs (tunneling IPsec SSL etc.)
- Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such as Rancid OpenNMS Nagios OpManager Wireshark Nmap Nessus Netflow Sflow etc.
- Administrative scripting skills (Perl UNIX shell scripting)
- Advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS NX-OS both Cisco Nexus 1K 2K 5K 7K 9K and non-Nexus series switches Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.
- Working knowledge of data center related technology and collocation environment.
- Advanced knowledge of MPLS network.
- Working knowledge of Nexus 9K and VPC
- Advanced knowledge of Forcepoint configuration
- Advanced knowledge and experience with Routing Protocols (BGP RIP OSPF etc)
- Working knowledge of Palo Alto Global Protect VPN
- Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation
- Working knowledge of Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation
- Deep domain expertise in networking network security and public/private clouds
- Working knowledge deploying and maintaining wireless networks
- Expert knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2 ELB RDS S3 Route53 VPC Cloud formation SSM and Transit gateway
- Working knowledge of deploying and maintaining Microsoft Team PBX VOIP deployments (network side not telecom) SIP Trunking and Five 9 Content Center
- Working knowledge of deploying and maintaining wireless networks
- Working knowledge of managing network service and similar support providers in a client/vendor relationship
Preferred Qualifications
- Advance hands-on experience in Palo Alto firewall F5 LTM GTM and WAF
- Advance hands-on experience in AWS cloud
- Extensive hands-on experience in automation with Ansible CloudFormation or Terraform
- AWS solution architect certification and CCNP certification required
- Deep knowledge in Forcepoint
Desired Qualifications
- Bachelors degree in a technical field (e.g. Computer Science IT or similar disciplines).
- Equivalent work experience implementing and operating enterprise level data center and/or office networks.
- Experience operating in a modern cloud environment such as AWS GCP or Azure or large scale data centers is a plus
- CCNP is the very minimum requirement. CCIE R&S or CCIE data center certifications and AWS certified solutions architect is a big plus