Position: Network Architect
Location: New York, NY Onsite
Duration: 12+ Months

Responsibilities:

Study the Networking landscape within an enterprise data center and hybrid networking environment; Partner with clients and other resources in detecting critical architectural, security and infrastructure gaps or deficiencies in the IT environment; Recommend solutions for improvement.
Continuously evaluate the network design and configuration based on performance metrics, user feedback and emerging mission demands.
Monitor, troubleshoot and triage alerts from Networking systems
Commmunicate and coordinate with technical and stakeholder audiences (written and verbal)
Drive relationships with partners and vendors involving the network solutions.
Engage directly with customers at a technical and business level and drive successful outcomes.
Lead the engineering and implementation of firewall policies, rule sets, and segmentation strategies across data centers and cloud platforms.
Travel May Be Required: 50%

Skills Required:

Strong experience in managing network hardware and appliances (Zscaler, Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5, NetScaler)
Experience with implementing, supporting and maintaining multi-vendor virtualized environments and ability to troubleshoot network system alerts
Experience in using Wireshark, iperf, tcpdump, and similar tools to diagnose live tactical network traffic and radio behavior.
Strong knowledge in virtualized and Software Defined Network platforms such as Vmware and NSX.
Ability to script or automate network provisioning (PowerShell, PowerCLI, and/or Python.)
Experience with cloud and endpoint security, SIEM logging tools
Strong experience with Linux and Windows system administration including security and patch management.
Proficient with network architecture, data center ecosystems, and hybrid cloud infrastructures.
Excellent comprehension in networking protocols, routing, subnetting, NAT, and firewall configurations.
Hand-on experience with network monitoring tools (e.g., Wireshark, NetFlow).
Strong organizational skills, and ability to work across distributed teams.

Strong hands-on experience in configuring and troubleshooting networking in hybrid environments.
Require deep knowledge in the following areas: Network Routing protocols: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, BGP, OSPF; and Enterprise Firewall Management tools: Palo Alto Networks, Fortinet, Cisco, Check Point, Algosec and Juniper Networks.
Preferred: CISSP, CISM (or comparable).
Preferred: Comfortable with Linux commands/file system.

Thanks,

Anwar Shaik

US IT Recruiter

Cerebra Consulting Inc , 270 Lancaster Ave, Suite-D2, Malvern, PA 19355

Email - anwar.shaik@cerebra-consulting.com

Phone: 18148312413 x 175