Sr. Network Architect
On-siteMinneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Job Summary
Architect and create roadmaps for all infrastructure-related technology, participating in vendor and internal business customer conversations on long-term goals. Manage Life Cycle Management for infrastructure technologies and oversee project management efforts including intake, preliminary design, architecture review boards, and project oversight. Evaluate and project capacity growth to ensure scalable, flexible core technologies while balancing costs against benefits. Design the technical network infrastructure for the enterprise, document current state architecture, and integrate solutions into existing networks. Provide technical expertise to support operations engineers during major incidents, resolve implementation issues, and develop solutions that align with IT strategies.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, Information Technology field or equivalent combination of education/experience
- 8+ years' IT experience in roles of increasing technical responsibility
- Demonstrated expert level understanding of network technologies. (ACI, SDN, SDWAN, routing, switching, firewalls, wireless, application load balancing, network visibility.)
- Demonstrated expert level understanding of network practices, and protocols. (MPLS/SR, optical networking, LISP, VXLAN, IPv4, IPv6, 802.1X, segmentation, QoS, IPAM.)
- 5+ years of experience designing network infrastructure for a large / complex network
- 5+ years of experience designing highly available infrastructure and services for a 24x7 environment
- Demonstrated understanding of network operations and support methodologies and processes
- Experience with infrastructure and network automation platforms and coding. (Postman, Terraform, Ansible, Python, etc.)
- Experience with Internet policy and design. (ARIN, IRR, IXPs, BGP policy design, RPKI, DDoS mitigation.)
- Demonstrated understanding and experience in cloud networking design for both hybrid and cloud native deployments
- Skills in general architecture, operations, or deployment methodologies and techniques
- 5+ years software development, maintenance and/or technical support experience
- Effective communication skills to interact with all levels of technology and business partners
- Excellent facilitation skills
- Experience delivering concurrent, large information management projects at all phases-from project definition through design and delivery
- Solid understanding and applied expertise in solutions architecture designs and concepts, which include but are not limited to: SDLC Process, Security, high availability, recovery, performance, monitoring and operations design
- Public speaking experience in front of large groups and executives
- Experience working with vague requirements and/or within organizations that are non-structured
Desired Qualifications
- Master's degree in IT or health informatics
- Healthcare Industry specific knowledge that includes a working knowledge of industry standards and architectures
- TOGAF
- ITIL
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