We are urgently for *Senior Network Architect & Engineer; location Hopkins, MN & Kansas City* for long term contract position, if you okay with see below Job Description so please let me know ASAP.
*ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES* • Act as the technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) on client engagements and provide technical guidance to the team. • Responsible for troubleshooting, installing, implementing, and administering network systems and providing tier II and tier III support. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to the following: Solution, Designing, Monitoring, Integration, Support/Maintenance and Architecture. • Understand Customer business deployment needs and design solutions building Enterprise Networks (LAN/WLAN/WAN/Datacenter). • Conduct short and long term planning to meet network requirements. • Design and implement network systems. Provides support for network connectivity or related network issues for the user community. • Troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve network problems • Plan and monitor the installation of network systems • Analyze network activity and network problems to discover and prevent systematic errors. • Recommend network design changes/enhancements for improved systems availability and performance. • Research, analyze, and recommend the implementation of software or hardware changes to rectify any network deficiencies or to enhance network performance. • Analyze facilities bandwidth requirements and system interdependencies. • Develop capacity planning models. • Ensure planned testing activities are performed and technical criteria are met. • Assesse network performance to ensure that it meets the present and future needs of the business. • Provide network planning recommendations to senior management • Develop network security guidelines regarding firewall maintenance and rule setting, intrusion detection, filter creation, and e-mail scanning. • Ensure appropriate encryption requirements are applied. • Evaluate services provided by vendors and recommends changes. • Lead Network reviews and audits required for regulatory and policy compliance. • Escalate and Coordinate with remote support team at offshore to get the user issues resolved. • Participate daily domain watch meetings, weekly and monthly team meetings along with offshore and other global team. • Identify and implement best practices, service improvements and transformation opportunities and share the same to global team • Participate in informal team meetings, client meetings, internal Operations meetings and Quality review meetings. • Implement the corrective/ preventive action identified • Co-ordination with the other support groups and Domains • Discuss management of risks in advance with the Domain Leads • Update knowledge base with the resolutions as required and discussed in Post Outage Reviews • Ensure that the policies and procedures set by TCS are adhered to • Escalating to higher management whenever required • Report the status to the higher management *QUALIFICATIONS AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS* • Bachelor's degree in technical discipline preferred or equivalent experience required. • 10-15 years of relevant IT work experience required • Cisco certifications including CCIE or CCDE are preferred. *PREFERRED SKILLS* • Thorough knowledge on advanced TCP/IP concepts, switching, routing protocols Layer 2, Layer 3 protocols. • Should have expertise in Designing, Configuring, installing, maintaining, troubleshooting and optimizing Cisco Nexus 7K,5K,2K, 6500, catalyst series switches, Cisco F5 Load Balancer LTM and GTM, Infoblox, Cisco WAAS WAN Accelerator etc. • Strong understanding of designing and implementing Quality of Service • Expertise in Cisco Nexus technologies like vPC, VDC etc. • Strong understandings of DCI (Data Center Interconnect) using FabricPath • Excellent knowledge and experience of Cisco Network Security, Checkpoint, ASA firewalls and other models • Strong understanding of MPLS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Multicast, ipv6, DWDM, SONET, Metro Ethernet, LAN/WAN network design, configuration, and troubleshooting • Good understandings of SAN Technologies (FC, FCoE, NPV, NPIV, FSPF, iSCSI, etc.). • Ability to design a Large Scale Enterprise Network using Cisco recommended best practices. • Ability to facilitate the technical designs and architecture discussion with clients, excellent communications and writing skills required • Good understanding about tiered infrastructure support services in a managed services model • Experience in working with Onshore/Offshore teams • Experience in working with cross-functional teams (IT Service Management framework) • Ability to effectively communicate with global teams for issue escalation and problem resolution • Should be open to work in a global distributed environment with Cross-cultural sensitivity. • The person in this role is expected to respond to high impact issues on a 24x7 basis, participating in a rotating on-call schedule with other team members • Working knowledge of Incident/Problem/Change Management frameworks such as ITIL v3, TQM or ISO 9000:2000 (certification not required, but is a plus). • Proven communication skills with multiple levels of an organization, including interaction with senior level management within the company • Strong influencing and relationship management skills • Excellent ability to manage multiple high priority efforts/ competing priorities and flexibility to adjust to changing requirements, schedules and priorities. • Self-driven and resourceful to achieve goals independently as well as work well in groups. • High level of IT literacy – MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) *Regards,* *Karan Tyagi,* *United Software Group Inc. * * 565 Metro Place S. Suite # 110* *Dublin, OH 43017 * *Phone: 614-588-8589* *Fax: 1-866-764-1148* *kara...@usgrpinc.com <jainen...@usgrpinc.com>* *www.usgrpinc.com <http://www.usgrpinc.com/>* *Skype: karan_usg* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "oraapps" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to oraapps+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to oraapps@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/oraapps. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
