Location: Orlando, Florida, Lakeland, Florida, or Miami (Kendall), Florida
Full-Time (Direct Hire) Mode: Hybrid work schedule (3 days in office / 2 remotely)
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. Analyses, 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.
- 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, analyses, 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.
- 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 professionals (assigning tasks, mentoring, etc.) - Experience as a Network Architect in a large 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, and OSPF - Experience performing capacity planning to predict usage trends for upcoming hardware/software needs - Ansible for network automation - Bash and/or Python scripting experience - Ability to perform on-call support on a rotational basis - Juniper certification preferred
Industry-leading publicly held, name-brand company Stable and profitable company with a strong management team Competitive salary, annual bonus, and comprehensive benefits Career growth opportunities