Be more than just an employee. Join New Era’s growing team and experience a corporate culture that promotes personal and professional development. We are looking for team members to contribute to and deliver our mission to “securely connect people, places, and information in a rapidly changing digital world.” Work alongside the finest team of highly skilled and industry certified professionals who are encouraged to drive change and think outside of the box. As a team member, you will receive competitive benefits, industry training, and certifications.
New Era Technology is a global IT integrator with 2,500+ employees delivering Collaboration, Cloud, Data Networking, Security, Large Venue, and Corporate AV and Managed Service Solutions to more than 9,000 customers.
We currently have a need for a Network Solutions Architect to design and implement solutions for Global Network Infrastructure environments. The ideal candidate will have 10+ years of relevant work experience in Networking, Network Security, and overseeing strategic Technology Programs at Enterprise Clients. Global Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Healthcare or Managed Service experience is strongly preferred.
Responsibilities:
- Consult with clients to discuss requirements or plans for new solutions.
- Develop engineering solutions and explain technologies to customers. Help them with gathering requirements and finding a solution for hardware and engineering services.
- Provide recommendations on viability, implementation strategies and optimal implementation of solutions.
- Review technical requirements with Account Management team as well as the client and prepare statement of work (SOW’s), level of effort and bill of materials (BOM’s) for projects.
- Develop design and system configuration based on technical requirements
- Recommend enhancements/changes to system design as appropriate
- Develop and deploy scalable solutions for LAN, WAN, WLAN, Firewalls, and other network devices.
- Identify, research, evaluate and implement emerging network technologies.
- Responsible for configuration, installation and maintenance and in-depth troubleshooting tasks and documenting any network issues.
- Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with vendors.
- Escalation of problems as appropriate to management.
- Create standard deployment and support documentation to be handed over to the network operations group
- Train deployment/field engineers for on-site deployment/troubleshooting
Skills required:
- Bachelor's degree in related technical/business areas
- 10+ years’ experience with enterprise-level network design and deployment with Cisco technologies
- Experience preparing SOW and BOMs.
- Proficient with the design, installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and monitoring of core routing and switching, LAN/WAN/ MAN services
- Proficient in routing protocols: OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, MPLS-TP
- Experience with Nexus 9k, 7k, 5k, 2k configuration and design.
- Familiarity and/or hands on experience with SDWAN and Cloud Solutions.
- Experience designing data center infrastructures with ACI and SDN.
- Through understanding of IP concepts including routing, VLAN's, QoS, tuning and capacity management concepts
- Utilizing scripting tools
- Ability to analyze and design network systems to achieve efficient and secure operation
- Excellent knowledge of TCP/IP, including packet-level traffic analysis
- Current Cisco data networking certifications i.e. CCNP, CCDP, CCIE strongly preferred.
- Experience working in large enterprise networks is desired. The ability to work under pressure and interface with senior management will be key to these roles.
Physical Demands:
- Regular use of hands and fingers to operate a computer keyboard, mouse, and other office equipment.
- Regular, repetitive movements such as typing, mouse movements, and scrolling. Ability to hear and understand spoken communications, both in person and via remote communication tools (e.g., phone, video conferencing).
- Ability to see and read computer screens and printed documents, as well as adjust focus. This includes prolonged periods of looking at a computer screen.
This role offers full remote flexibility and a compensation of $160K per annum
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