Lead Network Architect/Engineer

Role : Lead Network Architect/Engineer
Location : Orlando, Florida, Lakeland, Florida, or Miami (Kendall), Florid
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.
nalyses, 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, 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
chieved, 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.

Qualifications
- 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

Why is This a Great Opportunity
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