MO : CITIZEN

Job Title: Network Architect/ENGINEER 

Location: St. Louis, MO

Duration: Long Term (12 Months Contract)

ONLY BORN CITIZEN

Principal Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the Senior Manager, Network Design Services and other teams to ensure the networking solutions we provide to our data center hosting team meet the needs of the business and remain supportable. 
• Will provide staff augmentation services as needed, multirole skillset to offset existing staff workload 
• Research existing and new technologies for consideration in our environment including where required lab testing 
• Work closely with the Senior Manager, Network Design Services to ensure the appropriate levels of capacity planning and monitoring in place to allow our Operations Teams to operate the data center networking on a day-to-day basis 
• Work with our automation team to drive efficiencies around self service provisioning, monitoring and compliance into the data center networking environment across switching, firewalling and load balancing 
• Maintain and understand knowledge around VMWare NSX-T and the interaction with the physical network environment 
• Be able to simplify complex ideas/issues and present to senior management when required 
• Lead major vendor solution testing and selection 
• Participate in data center related projects that require networking input specifically oriented around cloud service providers  

Experience:

• 9 to 13 years’ experience in the design, building and operating large enterprise data center networks.
• Deep knowledge of networking and security in a data center environment, particularly with Cisco, Palo Alto and F5 including micro segmentation. 
• Experience of Software Defined Network Architectures, ideally Big Switch (now Arista) Big Cloud Foundation (BCF) or Cisco ACI. 
• Experience with Hybrid Data Center architectures preferred. 
• Experience working in a global environment with a geographically spread team. 
• Excellent communication/documentation skills  

Education Desired: 

• BA/BS in Information Systems. 
• VMWare NSX Experience, in particular the interaction with physical networks. 
• Good knowledge of Windows and Linux Operating systems, in particular the network stack and integration to networks. 
• troubleshoot networks preferred. 
• Infoblox platform leverage administration. 
• Cloud – Azure, OCI, AWS 

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