Network Solution Architect

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 

Below is the pay range of this position for considered candidates based on qualifications and experience.