Network Architect
- Vaspire Technologies Inc.
3 Days Ago
NA
Yearly
New York-NY
6-10 Years
Required Skills: Cisco, Meraki, Aruba Wireless, Network Engineer, AWS, Azure, GCP
Job Description
Requirement:
Years of Experience Directly Related to Role
- 8+ years of experience with Cisco, Meraki, Aruba Wireless and Palo Alto Networks.
- 5+ years of experience designing and supporting IP networks optimized for video streaming, live broadcast, or OTT delivery.
- 8+ years of experience as a Network Engineer.
- 7+ years of supporting complex global network and/or solution engineering in SaaS environments.
- 5+ years of experience with network design or support of public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP.
- 5+ years of experience with network design and/or solution engineering in SaaS environments.
- 7+ years of supporting SD-WAN solutions.
- 3+ years of experience with supporting and administering DDI solutions.
General Functional Description of Role
- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.
- One or more industry-leading certifications preferred such as CCNA, JNCIA, CCNP, etc.
- Hands-on experience with multicast, unicast, and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) technologies in large-scale content distribution environments.
- Experience with protocols and standards common in media delivery (e.g., HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, SRT, RTP, IGMP).
- Understanding of QoS, traffic shaping, and network performance optimization for broadcast and streaming workflows.
Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Motivated, curious self-starter who has the desire to learn.
- Ability to solve technical problems with creative solutions.
- Strong knowledge of network design and applications, including designing IP addressing hierarchy, complex routing and switching technologies.
- Understanding of network architecture and design of large-scale networks.
- Understanding of SDN/SDDC (Software Defined Network or Datacenter – full stack – compute, storage, network), including experience with AWS, Azure, OpenStack, CloudStack, or related technologies.
- Experience with multiple successful implementations, including the ability to configure, deploy, manage, and troubleshoot:
- Cisco routers and switches
- Site-to-site IPsec tunnels
- Palo Alto firewalls
- Aruba Wireless
- Meraki security appliances, switches and wireless
- Knowledge of project life cycle management.
- Knowledge of change management and MOPs.
- Strong knowledge of packet capture and traffic analysis.
- Virtualization technologies.
- Knowledge of wireless design, technologies, and wireless site survey tools.
- Hands-on experience with supporting repeatable, reliable, and scalable network architectures with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
- Strong knowledge of transport protocols, routing protocols, and security/authentication to encryption protocols at all layers of the OSI model, with emphasis on TCP/IP.
- Knowledge of networking technologies and protocols such as VTP, LACP, 802.1Q, RSTP, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, Multicast, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, RADIUS/TACACS+, 802.1X, SNMP, L3VPNs, L2VPNs and IPsec.
- Expertise in IP telephony/Hosted PBX and Call Center management are a plus.
- Expertise in Terraform is a plus.
- Broadcast and streaming teams: HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, SRT, RTP, IGMP.
