

CAREERS
Network Architect
Job ID: 1183
Posted On: 14-January-2019
Job responsibilities include:
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One of the major responsibilities is to offer new design requirements to the existing project.
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Gathers and follows architectural/design best practices from vendors, peers, and past experiences.
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Enthusiastic in providing and creating innovative network security solutions.
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Collaborates with enterprise architecture, application engineers, infrastructure engineers, and IT Security to deliver shared outcomes.
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Work with different vendors like Cisco, Juniper and Palo Alto network solution companies to be on top of new solutions available and trending in the market.
Roles:
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Evaluates and designs networks, including; local area networks (LANs), wide area networks (WANs), wireless, campus, datacenter, cloud, multi-site, internet, intranets, and other data communications systems.
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Work as a Subject Matter Expert for the development of IT networking, presenting networking topics and solutions to clients, partners, Insight teammates and communications supporting all hazards requirements.
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Develop and give support to networking services pipeline for a defined territory.
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Review technical networks and approval for networking proposals and statements of work.
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Brings thought leadership around recent trends, including; network security, NGFW (Next Generation firewalls), automation, SDN, NFV, Micro-segmentation, AWS and Azure Cloud, composable infrastructure, etc.
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Involve in development and support of repeatable packaged offerings, including tools for pre-sales and delivery.
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Collaborates with Marketing to develop and launch new offerings.
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Supports Practice Leader for building of technical development plans. Defines and manages practice-specific delivery methodology, templates and tools.
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Involved in each migration projects within the practice. Interacting with other Consulting Services teammates to make sure improve our delivery methodology and share best practices and lessons learned.
Qualifications required:
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Minimum of a master’s degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering or Electrical and Electronics Engineering or closely related field.
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Experience in architecting and engineering with enterprise onprem networking and cloud providers such as Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMWare and OpenStack (one or more clouds)
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Strong technical skills to communicate with clients, partners and sales that includes multi-tasking.
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Define the scope and price for network solutions. Drafting proposals, request for proposal responses and statements.
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Brings thought leadership around recent trends, including; network security, NGFW, automation, SDN, NFV, Micro-segmentation, AIOps, Hybrid Cloud, composable infrastructure, etc.
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Creating architecture design and implementation for Cisco Infrastructure solutions.
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Good idea about Cisco wireless solutions and Identity Services Engine (ISE).
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Capable of implementing high available and multi-level secured infrastructure network solutions.
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Layer2/Layer3 boundaries
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Extensive multi-vendor knowledge: Routing/Switching (7600s, ASRs, Viking) Nexus, SD Cloud, Firewalls like Cisco ASA 5k, 6k and Firepower-7k, 8k , Juniper SRX 4k, 5k and Palo Alto NGFW.
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Understanding of the OSI model, TCP/IP protocols, client/server designs, routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP) and Switching protocols.
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Understanding of LAN technologies, WAN technologies, Internet, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, VPNs, NAT, IP telephony
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Must have knowledge of network security and Must have extensive knowledge of network connectivity i.e. TCP/IP.
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CCNA and Palo Alto certifications mandatory.
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CCIE written certificate or related experience required.