Senior Network Architect/Engineer | Full-Time (Direct Hire) | Hybrid work schedule (3 days in office / 2 remotely) | Orlando, Florida, Lakeland, Florida or Miami (Kendall), Florida

In this role, you will provide network architecture leadership and guidance in a large enterprise environment. You will lead a team of 2 Network Architects.

This "hands-on" position requires experience as a Network Architect and Engineer. This is a large network environment consisting primarily of Juniper networks.

Analyzes, designs, and develops technical solutions (interfaces, performance tuning, utilities, or diagnostics) to technical and business problems. Provides level 3 and 4 technical support. Performs capacity planning to predict usage trends for upcoming hardware/software needs. Makes recommendations to management for systems and supporting infrastructure purchases. Coordinates and evaluates data circuit orders and reviews monthly billing for discrepancies.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Leads a small team of Network Architects with day-to-day and long-term tasks.
• Set priorities and goals for the team and individuals. Provide constructive feedback to team members.
• Provides Level 3 & Level 4 technical support and administration for network-based operating systems such as Cisco IOS, Juniper Junos, F5 load balancer, and Infoblox NIOS.
• Provides Level 3 and Level 4 technical support and administration for Routing and Switching, DNS and DHCP, and network load balancing
• Develop, define, and create best practices processes for Network infrastructure, Data Circuit technologies, and WAN design.
• Participate in a regular on-call rotation to provide 24/7 support
• Designs and administers security practices to meet various regulatory and policy requirements
• Acts as subject matter expert (SME) for all Network; Load balancer related activities.; DNS and DHCP related activities; and Wireless, Circuit, and WAN designs.
• Coordinate & participate in service/support needs with vendors, technical support, application support, and infrastructure support.
• Test and deploy security patches to identity systems to help maintain PCI, SOX, and other regulatory compliance requirements.
• Maintains, analyzes, and troubleshoots the various and compute infrastructure to ensure all services are optimally structured to provide defined service levels for:

o   Uptime

o   Stability

o   Performance

o   Quality

• Performs capacity planning and ensures that optimum levels are achieved, sustained, and consistently improved.
• Develop automation scripts and custom scripts for support, monitoring, and metrics gathering
• Assist with circuit orders and monthly billing reviews.
• Performs on-call support every 5th week.

Requirements:

• BA/BS in technology or related degree or equivalent technical certification and experience
• At least 8 years of Network engineering/architecture and (level 3 & 4) technical support experience
• Experience leading other network engineers (assigning tasks, mentoring, etc.)
• Experience as a Network Architect in an enterprise environment (global experience preferred)
• Strong technical experience with routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, WAN design, SDWAN, DNS, DHCP, and Load Balancing
• Must have deep knowledge of BGP
• Experience performing capacity planning to predict usage trends for upcoming hardware/software needs
• Juniper certification preferred

U.S. Citizens or Green Card holders only, please. We are unable to accept 3rd party candidates, transfer a visa or provide sponsorship, at this time.