Title: Senior Network and Security Architect Location: Santa Clara, CA ; Travel: The position is to be on-site but local travel within the city will be required to support the facilities. Travel expenses: Reimbursement for business travel Duration: 06 Months contract with possibility of conversion Targeted Start date: ASAP Work hours: 8-5 Mon-Fri. Job Details: Client is currently seeking a Senior Network Engineer/Security Engineer. Candidate will be the primary Network and Security Architect and Technologist in the customer environment. This position requires 5-7 or more years’ experience in IT with a focus on networking and security. Must be experienced with pragmatic communication at all levels, including Technical Managers, Directors and C-Level Management. Lead technical teams responsible for gathering requirements, developing solutions, implementing the solutions and ongoing support The technologies within the scope of this position include a range of largely Cisco products, architectures and technologies including But not limited to:
Cisco ASA 5500 and NGN series, preferably multicontext
Cisco ISE
Cisco SDA/ACI
ShoreTel/Mitel VoIP The appropriate candidate will also have a good knowledge of BGP, EIGRP, HSRP, VRRP as well as all other major routing protocols.
Qualifications:
Deep & broad knowledge and experience in the capabilities and use of the technologies in scope.
5-7 years of experience in selecting, design engineering, solution engineering, project engineering, integrating and implementing Cisco network architecture and related technologies.
Demonstrated effective decision making that had significant impact on technology direction and related business results.
5-7 years of experience in managing major vendor relationships in this technology area.
5-7 years of experience in providing consulting to senior management on the use and selection of these technologies.
Strong background and understanding of the technical direction in this space and the prevailing standards.
A proven history of being able to influence business and IT peers and management in the decision making process.
Ability to explain complex technical detail and tradeoffs to non-technical associates. • Strong vendor management and negotiating skills.
Ability to mentor and develop other engineers & architects. • Excellent communication skills including the ability to present solutions to technical and non-technical audiences.
Crucial Conversations as demonstrated by the ability to facilitate and conduct crucial conversations when stakes are high, emotions are strong and opinions vary that result in win/win solutions and while doing so fostering communication by encouraging open, honest two-way communication.
Deep & broad knowledge of full range of distributed networking, voice, video, data & security hardware and software architectural patterns, design standards and options.
Deep Technical knowledge of VoIP systems management tools.
Deep Technical knowledge of commonly used VoIP hardware and software products.
Expert knowledge using Microsoft office products and Visio tools.
