Network Architect

Network Architect

Vacaville, CA

12 MONTHS

Must Haves:

1. Strong experience with ACLs, juniper VPN, Cisco ISR routers, Cisco Nexus 9K, Catalysts 9K, PAN Firewalls, F5 LoaBalancers, MPLS,

SDWAN, Data Center, Wireless and Ansible scripting for network automation

2. Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and multi-homing Internet circuit configuration

3. Experience with Network security, Geo IP Blocking, Network devices hardening, Disaster Recovery, Thread Vulnerability

Management, PEN testing

TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall, Prisma Cloud and Cisco ASA.

• Expertise with F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.

• Strong 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.

• Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and multi-homing Internet circuit configuration

• Understanding 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, Solarwinds, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, Sflow etc.

• Administrative scripting skills (Perl, UNIX shell scripting)

• In-depth 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.

• Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.

• In-depth knowledge of MPLS network.

• Experience in Cisco Fabric interconnect configuration

• Must have Nexus 9K and VPC experience

• Advanced knowledge of Cisco, F5, Palo Alto Firewall, Websense/Focepoint, Juniper and other vendor equipment and configuration

• Advanced knowledge and experience with Routing Protocols (BGP, RIP, OSPF, etc)

• Must have experience in PulseSecure VPN

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation

• Expertise and Hands-on experience with Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation

• Deep domain expertise in networking, network security and public/private clouds

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• Experience deploying and maintaining wireless networks

• Working knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, Transit Gateway, VPC, Cloud formation, SSM and Transit gateway

• Experience deploying and maintaining VOIP deployments (network side, not telecom), SIP Trunking and Content Center

• Project Management Experience

• Experience with Scripting and Automation Technologies

"Network Architect"