Required Skills:
Minimum of 10 years experience in designing, developing, configuring, and implementing global enterprise networks with diverse solutions from multiple vendors including Cisco
Five or more years focused in network design with heavy emphasis on WAN and technical project management
Experience designing and managing MPLS framework
Must have strong leadership skills and flexibility when handling change
Demonstrated knowledge of network technologies and trends
Experience managing networks in an outsourced environment and strong experience knowing how to escalate issues within large outsourced network providers
Ability to work within and across large, global teams
Willingness to mentor other IT colleagues
Excellent written and verbal skills
Desired Skills:
Any of the following certifications are a plus: Cisco CCNP,CCNA Security, CCDE, CCIE
Experience with VOIP design and engineering a plus
4 year college degree a plus
Description of Role/Responsibilities:
This Network Architect role is with a Fortune 500 organization to offers the chance to a highly skilled IT professional that can practically apply both business and technical insights into designing enterprise, global WAN as well as determine overall network health, compare with industry standards, and establish operating thresholds, alert and countermeasure when thresholds are exceeded. This person will be responsible for gathering business requirements and objectives, producing a global, enterprise network strategy and road map blueprint for a complex, global, integrated network as well as clearly communicating the architecture to third party vendor and all stake holders. This person also needs to be able to identify and justify necessary business investments and sourcing needed to support the deployment, maintenance and operation of the network and improve performance while reducing variation and cost. This is a Resume boosting role that give this individual the chance to have total oversight over a global network with over 2000 different locations