Cisco Route Switch Architect
About The Position
As a Architect within Arganteal, you will be working on exciting infrastructure driven projects for Fortune 500 customers across all verticals. Our global infrastructure planning and deployment services deliver thousands of projects each year. From employing our methodologies at hundreds of sites to leveraging complete enterprise design services, customers trust our infrastructure experts to assess the technology they have today and design the solutions they need for tomorrow. Your primary objective is to support Infrastructure Services through maintaining a high level of technical expertise in Advanced Cisco Routing and Switching and SD-WAN, supporting delivery teams and engineers in the deployment of Services, and serving as an escalation point for delivery engineers. You will also be responsible for assisting with the introduction of new services, including development and documentation of deployment methodologies, and working with delivery teams to develop those capabilities in the field.
Requirements
- Must have at least 7 years of experience designing, deploying, and implementing LAN/WAN networks in accordance with industry best practices
- Extensive large scale WAN experience required
- Extensive campus networking experience required
- Highly skilled in consulting with customers at all levels of the organization in both pre and post-sales
- Highly Skilled in SD-WAN Cisco Viptela
- Strong knowledge of IP communication and routing is required (ISIS, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP). Experience with inter-company routing is preferred.
- Experienced with logical design models (VXLAN-EVPN, VXLAN-LISP, Advanced segmentation, Inter-segmentation routing, multi-tenancy, Device Contexts, L2/L3, VPC, VSS, Stackwise Virtual, Datacenter Zones, Spanning tree, VRFs, VLANs)
- Working technical knowledge of network and security protocols (IPSEC VPN, SGT, SSL VPN, AAA, Dot1x, TustSec, NAT, QoS etc)
- Implementation experience with Cisco DNA Center and Software Defined Access
- General working knowledge of Cisco (fabric) wireless and Cisco ISE
- Configuration management of networking devices using PnP/ZTP, automation tools (Cisco DNA-Center, vManage, Cisco Prime, ISE) and API scripting with Python
- Knowledge of templating languages (Velocity, Jinja2)
- Experience with network automation using Ansible, Terraform or other orchestration tools
- Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills with the ability to work well in a collaborative environment.
- Able to conduct research into networking issues and products as required.
- Highly self-motivated and directed, with keen attention to detail.
- Able to effectively prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment.
- Strong customer service orientation with proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Related degree in computer science or electrical engineering and/or seven to ten years equivalent network engineering experience.
Nice To Haves
- Highly Skilled in at least one (1) other of the following is desired: SD-WAN (VMware Velocloud, Aruba/SilverPeak Edgeconnect, Fortinet, Versa)
- Experience integrating SD-WAN into SASE/SSE and cloud deployments (Umbrella SIG, Zscaler, Prisma)
- Experience with Hybrid Cloud network deployments including AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
- Knowledge or experience with Meraki is a plus
- Working knowledge of middle-mile, cloud interconnectivity or multicloud technologies (Equinix, Megaport, Aviatrix etc) is a plus
- Certifications in industry leading network products: Cisco (CCIE, CCNP), Arista, Aruba, VMware, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper, Zscaler, AWS, GCP, Azure
- Multi-vendor experience is required
- Cisco partner post sales consulting experience strongly preferred.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the development of network planning, design, and implementation services
- Pre/Post sales consultant to Arganteal’s Enterprise clients.
- Create Low Level and High-Level design of Campus and Wide Area networks utilizing industry best practices
- Translate business outcomes to technical solutions
- Provide technical guidance and support to delivery engineers throughout all phases of a project including Project Launch Workshops, Kickoff calls, lessons learned, etc. as needed
- Review client deliverables to identify opportunities to improve quality through training, mentoring, product offering improvement, and talent acquisition
- Monitor network performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed
- Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry
- Access the technical effort required to deliver solutions
- Serve as an escalation point for troubleshooting of customer networks
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
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