Gridiron IT is seeking a Network Architect to support a professional services client on a remote basis.
Job Description:
Take client engagements from initial design through implementation and migration and continue on to provide in life operational support. This ensures a seamless transition for customers from initial exposure to full operational capability.
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze customer situation to develop requirements and gather technical requirements for the purpose of designing a network to be deployed.
- Develop and provide designs in line with requirements. Write High and Low Level Design documents based on gathered requirements for guidance and reference during and after network deployment
- Implementation and migration planning detail and support
- Write and execute test plans for purpose of validating newly deployed networks once the deployment is complete in order to ensure new infrastructures are capable of carrying production network traffic.
- Work with customers to plan, write, and execute Methods of Procedure documents outlining steps to seamlessly migrate production network traffic from legacy infrastructure to the newly deployed Network Fabric.
- Perform Knowledge Transfer training on network designs, platforms, and features to Professional Services customers.
- Ongoing operational support to the customer
- Develop professional relationships with customers to assist them with solution deployment projects.
- Assist project management in developing project plans to track deployment project task execution, communication cadence with customers, and timelines.
Qualifications:
- Specializing in design and deployment of industry-leading networking solutions.
- Ability to develop accurate and meaningful requirements.
- High level and low level design experience for Spine & Leaf infrastructure.
- Advanced network protocol knowledge, especially BGP, EVPN, VXLAN and SR.
- Linux operating system and scripting knowledge.
- Experience of delivering technical and operational training to customers
- Basic/Advanced Python programming skills
- 10+ years of industry experience focused on Network Architecture
- Led and delivered several projects including greenfield implementations, complete migrations and integration efforts.
- A computer science (or similar) degree
- Prior Arista Hardware or EOS experience
- CCIE and/or JNCIE certifications/ equivalents, security certifications such as CISSP/equivalents
- Excellent written and verbal skills
Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status.Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) company specializing in IT Infrastructure, Cyber & Cloud Security, Software Development, and Enterprise Support. Gridiron is an Inc. 5000 2022 recipient and Washington Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies in the Greater Washington Area for 2022. Gridiron offers a competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, disability insurance, and pet insurance.
Job Type: Contract
Pay: $75.00 - $85.00 per hour
Expected hours: 40 per week
Benefits:
- 401(k) matching
- Dental insurance
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Vision insurance
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
- Monday to Friday
Experience:
- Network architecture: 10 years (Required)
- Consulting: 5 years (Required)
- Data center: 8 years (Required)
- BGP: 8 years (Required)
- MPLS: 8 years (Required)
- Arista networking: 8 years (Required)
Work Location: Remote