Business Title: Director, Network Availability Operational Lead/ArchitectRequisition Number: 111660 - 48Function: Business Support ServicesArea of Interest:State: MOCity: Saint LouisDescription:Known for being a great place to work and build a career, KPMG provides audit, tax and advisory services for organizations in today's most important industries. Our growth is driven by delivering real results for our clients. It's also enabled by our culture, which encourages individual development, embraces an inclusive environment, rewards innovative excellence and supports our communities. With qualities like those, it's no wonder we're consistently ranked among the best companies to work for by Fortune Magazine, Consulting Magazine, Working Mother Magazine, Diversity Inc. and others. If you're as passionate about your future as we are, join our team.KPMG is currently seeking a Director, Network Availability Lead to join our Digital Nexus organization.Responsibilities:
Provide technical design and architectural leadership, including documenting and diagramming the logical, physical, and process views for enterprise monitoring solution(s)
Facilitate organizational change by defining strategies for the Firm with respect to technology domain standards and design goals, focusing mainly on monitoring, event correlation, and service dependency mapping
Develop and maintain roadmaps, which include product selection, versions, upgrades, projects, and milestones
Conduct research focused on identifying emerging technology solutions that reduce costs, increase efficiencies, provide more value and capabilities, reduce risks, and increase security
Lead efforts for technology evaluations, which involves identifying a weighted feature matrix for a specific need and evaluating and scoring products against the desired features; research activities include readings, proof-of-concepts (POCs), and lab testing
Provide vision and guidance on unified monitoring; gather data from disparate monitoring tools, create a unified solution to help isolate and resolve issues faster while acting as lead triage point of contact for incidences to improve MTTR
Qualifications:
Minimum Ten years of recent experience in Network Design and Engineering, focusing on rapid triage using industry monitoring tools, managing and supporting large scale projects and network automaton, preferably within a professional services firm or similar environment
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university preferred; Cisco certifications are preferred
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing network monitoring architecture and reference architectures from business requirements gathering to technology rollout oversight, including capacity management, definition of scoring methodologies for technology selection, integration of multiple tools and technical documentation
Deep understanding of TCP/IP and Routing & Switching technologies, data center products and remote access technology; able to program with one or more scripting' languages and skilled in API integrations
Experience with Cisco networks and monitoring tools; knowledge or hands-on experience with public cloud deployments like AWS and Azure; good knowledge of Network function virtualization Virtual router/Switch, Virtual FW, and Virtual Load Balancers
Strong verbal/written communication, with ability to effectively interact with individuals at all levels of responsibility and authority; must be able to prioritize, delegate and foster the development of high-performance teams to lead/support an environment driven by customer service and team work
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