In your role you will support complex network architectures by developing, designing, configuring, and implementing detailed network engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance, and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. You will also provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment. Responsibilities : • Independently perform highly complex assignments. • Network design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing routing and switching within campus, cloud and data center networks. • Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements. • Responsible for network performance, as well as conformance to security hardening standards and assessment of CVEs. • Ability to troubleshoot network-related issues in a logical manner and complete problem resolution management. • Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth. • Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative tasks. • Collaborates with all Information Technology (IT) disciplines. • Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information. • Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed. • Perform other special project and duties as assigned. • Ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades. • Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives. • Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies. • Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining appraised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business. Required Qualifications: • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience. • Minimum 5-7 years of relevant networking experience required. • 5-7 years of experience with network design and engineering. • Strong analytical and customer service abilities. • Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels. • Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver. • Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff. • Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco, NGFW • F5 - Big IP, LTM, GTM, ASM, AFM or comparable ADC experience • Infoblox - DNS, DHCP, NTP • Packet capture and analysis – Wireshark, Viavi • Linux OS understanding Preferred Qualifications: • Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure, Terraform and Cloud Formation Templates • Automation & scripting – Python, Ansible, IaC • Routing Protocols – BGP, EIGRP, OSPF • Cisco Platforms: Routing and Switching • Switching Protocols – Spanning Tree, Port Channels • Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management • Packet Broker – Gigamon • Experience with – (ISR/ASR/Nexus/Catalyst), wireless, ACI, Meraki, SDWAN, ISE