Position:- Network Architect
Location:- Pleasanton, CA
Duration: 12+ months
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Review consultation Requests and provide with Design / Engineering Solutions
- Capture Business Requirements, Create Business Case and document the information collected
- Baseline Current State Network and Connectivity and create architecture diagrams to incorporate the requirements.
- Create Projects Preliminary Scope and coordinate with the project management team
- Produce Technical Documentation (Network and Connectivity Diagrams, Infrastructure Diagrams, Technical Specifications)
- Support UAT and provide technical Signoff
- Training and hand-over to Run & Support team
- Commission / de-commission Network components
- Network Incident Management, Onsite Support, Inventory Management, Site Surveys
- This position best suits candidates with umbrella experience within IT, with strong networking knowledge.
- Basic operating system, programming language, and protocol knowledge, particularly legacy ones.
- A combination of technical and people skills. Self-directed and proactive. Aptitude for becoming an account manager for their customer environments.
- Defensive cybersecurity skills (incident response, tool deployment, firewall rule analysis, etc.) as well as offensive interrogation/discovery.
- Informal project coordination or formal project management experience.
- OT (Operational Technology)/Lab/Building Automation experience is preferred. Experience in ICS (industrial control system)/factory/plant settings.
- Service NOW and/or JIRA experience is a plus. Knowledge of ITSM principles.
- Data analysis and transformation. Awk/sed/grep, RegEx, or similar are a plus.
- The infrastructure skills are largely not hands-on. Typically, we are documenting and communicating with other teams what needs to be done.
- Good Communications Skills, and able to drive and deliver the tasks individually.