• 10+ years of experience in Networking technology with 4+ years of experience in a lead role

• 4+ years of architecture/design experience.

Job Title: Lead Network Consultant

Location: Monroe, NY

Primary Responsibilities:

• Predict emerging customer needs and develop innovative solutions to meet them.

• Solve unique and complex problems with broad impact on the business.

• Participate in the development of business strategy.

• Develop and manage business plans to achieve objectives.

• Lead large, complex projects to achieve key business objectives.

• Translate highly complex concepts in ways that can be understood by a variety of audiences.

• Influence senior leadership to adopt new ideas, products, and/or approaches.

• May have segment-wide impact.

• Direct cross-functional and/or cross-segment teams.

• Drive the adoption of reference architectures for existing, new and emerging technologies.

• Drive the adoption of creative solutions to address complex, global enterprise problems utilizing automation as well as DevOps principles.

• Assist customer organizations with planning and implementing complex architecture solutions.

• Participate in enterprise governance processes and drive standards adoption.

• Develop effective architecture solutions that not only satisfy immediate project requirements but also deliver a coherent, reusable, reliable and phased architecture to

help the business grow and change while aligning to strategic vision.

• Deliver technical architecture expertise in implementing cross-organizational information sharing.

• Develop solutions and recommendations for issues caused by process challenges, emerging threats and technology changes

Required Skills:

• Strong understanding on software defined network Cisco ACI Technology

• Should have understanding on Tenant, EPG, Bridge domain, AEP, Policy group, interface profile, L3Out etc.

• Should have strong design knowledge on existing SDN (ACI infra) DC.

• Should deploy new ACI fabric.

• Configure ACI using GUI and automation.

• Create Json code for Automation using API inspector specially for repetitive task.

• Modify existing Json as per the requirement.

• Should understand different PRM types for PRM automation.

• Should be able to coordinate with PRM team for new PRM automation requirement.

• Should have understanding on Github.

• Attend kick off meeting with the stake holders to understand the scope of the project.

• Sound knowledge on fabric upgrade process.

• Good understanding on NSX Tier 0 connectivity with ACI infra.

• Coordinate with different tenant owners for any project requirement and during critical risk changes.

• Undergraduate degree in applicable area of expertise or equivalent experience.

• Past project experience with network architecture, technical design, or implementation.

• Ability to interact with a broad cross-section of personnel to explain and enforce architectural principles and designs.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Information Assurance, Computer Science, Information. Systems or related field of study or equivalent experience.