Job description

As a Network Solutions Architect, you’ll get into the details of our platforms. You will push the buttons, flip the levers, turn the knobs. You do not shy away from difficult challenges as it relates to networking, cybersecurity, implementations, migrations, and integrations. You are the technical authority and will interact directly with our customers to help them transform their networks. Our customers are counting on you to perform this work and train their staff. And while experience on the Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN platform is strongly desired, even more important is having a solid foundation in networking and security technologies.

Many of our projects involve a client migrating to the Palo Alto Prisma SD-WAN platform for the first time, so understanding the nuances of competing or legacy technology will enable you to be a better Globalgig Network Solutions Architect.

Ideally you are a routing and switching expert with experience in architecting and deploying greenfield and brownfield SD-WAN networks and SD-WAN Hybrid networks. You must be able to take requirements, create a detailed network design and turn it into a finished working deliverable. You will work with technical teams to implement customer initiatives. Creativity, self-driven, problem solving and attention to detail are valuable traits you possess.

- Provide technical network architectural solutions based on customer business requirements.

- Analyzes requirements by evaluating customer business needs and technical requirements and develops and implements them into a finished working deliverable.

- Ability to work with the customers security & network teams to build confidence across the business units impacted by the change with the addition of Globalgig.

- Ensure client needs are met and deliverables produced on time according to specified project deliverables and scope.

- Research information network trends, standards, and practices to identify needs for enhancing network solutions.

- Accepts ownership of tasks, can independently drive to completion, and seek guidance of more senior team members as needed.

- Participate actively in knowledge sharing activities like communities of practice, forums, conferences and/or other knowledge exchanges to improve security architecture/engineering practices.

- Provide level of effort breakdown estimates for facilitating Statements of Work or Change Orders to Clients.

- Identify functional and non-functional requirements (In scope/Out of Scope).

- Validate requirements with customer stakeholders.

- Perform and Lead Implementation of technical solutions (proof of concepts / pilots, or production ready systems) to meet or to prove the functional and non-functional requirements.

- Experience with configuration, install, and support of Palo Alto (Cloudgenix) ION appliances – both physical and virtual.

- Knowledge transfer to new team members, provide technical directions and help other team members.

- Perform duties such as leading Client facing discovery and design workshops as well as participate in stand ups, planning, kick-off meetings, cutovers, deployments, retrospectives and presenting team progress to leadership and customers.

- Deploy and configure hardware and software as required for internal and customer support.

- Maintain current production systems.

- Deploy and implement SD-WAN networks based on industry and platform best practices.

- Abide by strict change management, policies both internal and external.

- Provide Clients with documentation including but not limited to High Level Design’s, Low Level Design’s, Implementation plans, and As-Builts.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

7-10 years of experience as a Network Architect/Network Engineer

Strong understanding of Routing protocols (eBGP,iBGP, OSPF, EIGRP)

Strong understanding and experience implementing Class of Service (CoS)

Thorough understanding of all layers of OSI model

Consulting experience (via Contractor, Independent, VAR, etc)

Strong experience leading enterprise technical implementations

Effectively handle multiple projects and work calmly under pressure

An excellent writer, with strong verbal social skills, with demonstrated ability to communicate to senior leaders, technical peers, and non-technical partners

Excellent time management and organization skills

Position will require some after business-hours network transformation deployment and cutover work and participation in an on-call rotation.

Strong understanding of SD-WAN concepts including Packet load balancing, application-aware routing, link quality metrics (LQM) and related policies

Palo Alto Networks Prisma SD-WAN (formerly Cloudgenix) experience is a must

Fortinet and FortiGate SD-WAN and EMS experience is a plus

Cisco Viptela experience is a plus

SASE experience is a plus

AWS/Azure/GCP experience is a plus. Experience limited to AWS/Azure/GCP exclusively is not ideal

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $90,000.00 - $225,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Health savings account
• Life insurance
• Paid time off
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday
• On call

Supplemental pay types:

• Bonus pay

Experience:

• Professional Service delivery: 1 year (Preferred)
• Network architecture: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• PCNSE (Preferred)

Work Location: Remote

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