Network Architect
Trinity Corporate IT is searching for a talented team player to fill the open position of Network Architect in our Dallas, Texas office.
The Network Architect will provide technical leadership for a team of engineers, provide proposal and solutions development, create technology roadmaps and internal documentation, and build/maintain vendor relations. In addition, the Network Architect will work directly with internal customers to create formalized requirement packages. This role ensures optimal performance, security, and cost-efficiency; oversees project compliance; and drives automation/continuous improvement across all networks.
What you'll do:
Serve as the expert in all networking aspects of Trinity Industries IT Operations. This includes direct services provided by Trinity and indirect services provided by services providers
Work with management to maintain and continue optimizing network services and costs
Architect strategic solutions to address all aspects of network infrastructure design and architecture, lead installations as well as troubleshooting and service outage resolution
Responsible for maintaining the integrity of the network boundaries, setting up firewalls (Firepower, Fortigate), IDS/IPS/ protections and other defenses against cyber security threats
Develop and routinely provide system performance metrics, creates and maintains a map of the entire network and remote site connectivity, complete with inventory of software/hardware used in the topology of the design
Develops, maintains and tests network centric disaster recovery plans and incident response plans
Performs capacity planning, tuning, and develop/document standards for all aspects of network infrastructure
Bachelor's degree, preferably IT or Computer Science discipline required
8+ years’ combined network engineering and leadership experience
Cisco Certified (CCNP +) or Fortinet Certified (FCSS +) preferred
Must have hands on automation experience using scripting languages (Python preferred)
Exhibited experience in development of comprehensive proposals from formalized network requirements capture.
Extensive support and collaboration experience across vendor, customer and peer groups
Extensive experience in the following areas: outing (SDWAN/BGP/OSPF), Switching (VLAN/VXLAN),Firewalls (Firepower/Fortigate), Load balancers (Netscaler),Gateways, Data and voice convergence (Cisco UC), Video services, Network protocols, Datacenter networking (VXLAN) Cloud services network integration (Azure Networking), Wireless technologies (Cisco WLC), Supplier management for carriers and service providers
Extensive experience troubleshooting multi-tier Internet applications platforms and cloud networking interfaces
Deep understanding of network protocols, and their applications and characteristic behaviors
Experience performing assessments/audits and implementing necessary network security and audit controls to address discovered issues, weakness and or regulatory requirements
Experience of working with application and network layer cryptography and virtualization
Competency in leveraging tools to enhance network engineering, monitoring, automation, and troubleshooting
EOE
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