Network Architect Principal-Staff
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About The Position
The Network Architect will operate at an enterprise level, responsible for creating a wholistic strategy and tactical execution plan of implementation, as well as operationalizing investments which ultimately result in a secure and resilient network architecture that is scalable to meet the growing business needs as well as lowered mean time to repair and time between incidents. Technology areas of focus will be the AEP Enterprise Core Backbone Network, SCADA (Supervisory, Control and Data Acquisition) head-end aggregation networks, Internet Connectivity, Wireless, VPN (Virtual Private Network) connections, Data Center networks, Public Cloud connectivity and Network Security architectures. This key technical position is accountable for defining architecture and engineering standards, developing network automation solutions, documentation of best practices, system monitoring and analytics and top tier (level 3) operational support. This position will also mentor staff members to develop excellent enterprise networking skills. Ensuring designs follow compliance guidelines such as SOX and NERC-CIP. You'll work on a cross-infrastructure team with architects and technical leads from other infrastructure teams (cloud, storage, compute, applications) to establish technical strategies and architectural design/standards across infrastructure technology. Work closely with leadership to ensure that their technology platform choices are well understood, the support services contracts comply with operational standards, proper thought leadership is represented in the negotiation of support services and those measured services are well defined.
