Network Architect/Consultant

- The Network Architect Consultant acts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for network related aspects of the products in the Network Team's portfolio
- The NNetwork Architect Consultant has the responsibility to develop new projects and and services based on the requirements from the business community, and to create and govern standards and guidelines for various products and technologies
- Further, she/he supports the existing engineering team in their daily work and takes over the responsibility in service design and transition to deliver a constantly improving, cost efficient and highly available service
- He will also be responsible for solving incidents and problems, which could not be handled by our operations team and drive forward automation and standardization, to improve supportability of the different services
- The close and committed cooperation with other teams and projects across the organization is vital and mandatory for success
- Builds positive cross-functional team dynamics and relationships with customer and other units, maintaining healthy and productive communities within the wider organization
- Looks for different and better ways of doing things and actively bringing them up with improvement proposals
- Plans and ensures proper training and testing of tools and processes
- Captures innovations, lessons learned and successes on projects and shares them within the organization
- Collaborates with stakeholders and project teams to identify needs and gather requirements
- Designs and engineers products, as well as engineer’s processes and tools with dependencies to product
- Engineers integrations (i.e. security aspects) and delivers product integrations: integration and implementation of one or multiple products; interacts with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration
- Optimize the existing environment by evaluating and developing new technologies/products/concepts and lead PoCs and lab testing; manage roadmaps and product portfolios
- Provides expert technical assistance for issues that cannot be resolved within operations and reviews product and integration architecture
- Provides consultancy and expert advice directly to customers
- Interact with the outsourcing partner(s) to ensure that they develop, validate and support the solutions required by company and that they meet company security and networking standards

Information technology, computer programming, web portals

IT/Telco service provider

Secondary without school-leaving examination
Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)
Postgraduate (Doctorate)

English - Upper intermediate (B2)

LAN/WAN administration - Expert
SD-WAN - Advanced

Candidate Requirements:
- Passion for engineering
- Learn something new every day
- Taking end-to-end ownership and responsibility
- Collaborative, team focus and great communication skills
- Working independently and self-managed in a global team
- Enjoying to understand new technologies and shaping new products for our customers
- Process oriented mind-set (engineering process)
- Display of thought-leadership
- Familiarity and working experience with at least one scripting language (e.g. Python, Ruby, PowerShell, etc.), or software developer background
- Ability to work in a variety of customer settings and in a team-oriented, collaborative environment
- Advocate and evangelize for best practices like automated testing, continuous integration (CI), automation, documentation etc.
- Comfortable to speak at conferences and write blogs
- Familiarity with Agile and/or Lean approaches is a plus

Formal/ Technical Skills:
- Knowledge and experience with design and implementation of highly complex network and security infrastructure solutions
- Experience in the network and security area with focus on data centre and cloud solutions
- Understanding of cloud networking concepts with focus on Microsoft Azure and AWS, and hybrid mode models (combinations of on-premise, private cloud, and public cloud setups)
- Methodical and systematic approach towards gathering requirements, designing solutions, documentation and communication
- Ability to assess the marketplace (understand what is out there)
- Ability to translate requirements into solutions
- Ability to design high availability networking concepts and techniques i.e. Load Balancing, Clustering, Failover, diverse connectivity
- Quickly turn business requirements into technical solutions
- Strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills relating to networking and security implementations
- Ability to carry out detailed network and security analyses (troubleshooting, developing optimization proposals etc.)

Network technologies:
- LAN/WAN/SD-WAN technologies
- WAN routing technologies i.e. MPLS, OSPF, BGP, Overlay VPNs
- Network security e.g. Cisco firewalls or others, Cisco ISE, Cisco ACI, VMware NSX, Algosec
- Extensive knowledge of Cisco routing/switching and Firewalls software including Cisco IOS, ASA OS, and NX-OS
- Virtualisation/Cloud/Software-defined Networking technologies (SDN) including setup of Azure and AWS networking environments
- VPN knowledge (site to site, overlay networking) with emphasis on Cloud connectivity
- Experience working with network monitoring and troubleshooting tools e.g. Solarwinds, Wireshark
- Scripting/Programming know-how such as PowerShell, Perl/Python, Bash/Shell
- Proven experience in Windows and or Linux operating systems
- Automation tooling knowledge a plus

Pro HR, s.r.o. je personálno-poradenská spoločnosť špecializujúca sa na oblasť služieb recruiting & selection, executive search a HR consulting. Svojim klientom poskytujeme individuálny prístup k riešeniu otázky zabezpečenia kvalifikovaných zamestnancov. Pro HR realizuje vyhľadávanie a výber kandidátov aktívnym a priamym spôsobom prostredníctvom služieb recruiting & selection a executive search.

Konzultanti spoločnosti permanentne mapujú trh, poznajú aký typ zamestnancov sa nachádza v spoločnostiach s podobným zameraním klienta, príp. konkrétne vhodné pozície s ich náplňou a zodpovednosťami v iných spoločnostiach. Na základe ich znalosti je možné priamo osloviť potenciálne vhodného kandidáta s požadovaným súborom znalostí a skúsenosti.

Spoločnosť Pro HR, s.r.o. sa v oblasti vyhladávania a výberu kandidátov špecializuje na cieľovú skupinu:
1. nižší, stredný, vyšší manažment
2. špecializované pozície – financie, predaj & marketing, logistika & nákup, procesy a kvalita, project management & stratégia + support, CRM
3. IT/telco technické pozície, Help Desk pozície (IT a telco špecialisti, programátori, analytici, SW architekti, projektoví manažéri, atď.)
The company is a holder of a licence to offer recruitment services. (AA/2009/4810/4232/OISS)

Employment placement and personal consultancy

10-19 employees

* We are required by law to disclose basic wage component (minimum salary) for the advertised positions. Your actual final salary is based on your professional competencies, skills, qualifications and experience matching the position.

If you are interested in our offer, send your CV in Slovak or English to [email protected]. Please, specify the position of your interest in the subject of message.

Contact person: Ing. Anna Tkáčová
Tel.: +421911247080
E-mail: send CV