Senior Network Architect

Systal

Place of work
Bratislava
Contract type
full-time
Start date
01.03.2022
Wage (gross)
3 000 EUR/monthFinal salary will be based on the skills and experience of the chosen candidate.

Information about the position

Job description, responsibilities and duties

Role Description:
• Development of solutions for the customer using existing or best practice templates bearing in mind any cost constraints.
• Definition of overall architecture, technical configuration standards and overall technical management of installations.
• Presales Support, Technical Architecture & Design, Validation, Documentation, Maintenance and Communication of all technical functional elements required to achieve world-class solutions for Systal Multi-national Customers.
• Guidance in the delivery of projects in Transition and Transformation to new or existing customers.
• Application of Systal’s Strategic View, SLAs or service standards to all customer networking requirements consistently.

Work Content & Responsibilities:
• Supporting the Data engineering needs of the client's global internal and external communications. Supported technologies/components include: router and switches, load balancer, VPN concentrators, firewall, proxy, and other LAN (incl. Wireless),WAN technologies (incl. Virtualization & SDN), Cloud Technologies (Azure/AWS/Google/IBM), Storage (incl. Nutanix/Dell/NetApp) & Compute.
• Developing standard design and architectures; the definition of the structures of an IT solution to a business problem.
• Performing network assessments and recommend Best Practice network architecture for network performance, capacity, stability, availability, security, and cost efficiency.
• Maintaining an in-depth base of IT industry networking knowledge to advise on technical trends and techniques and apply them to the development of solution designs.
• Translating customer requirements into technical solutions and functional specifications.
• Definition and maintenance of a Technology Roadmap based on state-of-the-art technology and customer requirements.

Employee perks, benefits

*private medical care
*pension scheme
*life insurance
*benefit cafeteria

Requirements for the employee

Candidates with education suit the position

Secondary with school-leaving examination
Follow-up/Higher Professional Education
University education (Bachelor's degree)
University education (Master's degree)

Educational Specialization

IT

Language skills

English - Intermediate (B1)

Personality requirements and skills

The position holder has professional network technical experience or has ideally already worked as network architect working in a busy non-standard customer environment.

1. University degree or comparable skills from long-term working experience
a. Cisco/Arista, Security accreditation an advantage.

2. Several years of experience in managed campus / datacenter network service area

3. Excellent technical and non-technical skills in the following areas:
a. Proficiency at the techniques that go into the formulation of architectures, including requirements discovery and analysis, application of abstraction, formulation of solution context, solution alternatives identification and assessment, technology selection, and architectural configuration
b. Practical skills and experience with many network application and infrastructure products, technologies, and services
c. Must be able to provide technical leadership for network integration of cross tower services, and transform high-level network solutions into detailed implementation designs.
d. Must be able to establish, implement, and enforce appropriate standards in the creation and implementation of the solution whenever project requirements call for or would benefit from the use of standards.
e. Must be able to demonstrate mastery of written and verbal communication skills which include the ability to stay on subject, leverage the use of good feedback, and use content appropriate for the audience.
f. Experiences supporting enterprise customers and their demanding requirements (Focus on Data Centre/SDN Technologies - routing and switching, e.g. VXLAN/EVPN, Cloud Integration e.g. Azure/AWS and Wireless technologies e.g. Meraki/Aruba).
g. The following certifications or comparable skills are required
Ideally CCIE Certification or equivalent
CCNP and/or CCDP certification or equivalent is a minimum requirement
Experience on the following technologies is highly desirable:
VMWare / NSX-T & NSX-V experience,
Azure/AWS experience,
Firewall experience (Cisco Firepower / Checkpoint / Fortinet / Juniper / PaloAlto)
Load Balancer (F5 (LTM, GTM, iRules, ASM, …))

Flexibility - the customer is supported during their business hours of 7am to 7pm, and a degree of flexibility is required in this role. In addition, some of the projects may require working outside of these hours. There is no need to travel frequently.

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Brief description of the company

Systal is a global managed network and security service and transformation specialist. We consult, deploy, and integrate multi-vendor technologies which help enterprise businesses maximize the security and value of their complex IT infrastructure. Across our 24/7 Network and Security Operations Centres, we manage over 200,000 assets across 78 countries, providing innovative and resilient solutions that that help enterprises meet complex technology requirements, replace unsecure and ineffective legacy technologies, and securely solve today’s critical IT and business challenges.
ID: 4210849  Dátum zverejnenia: 10.2.2022  Základná zložka mzdy (brutto): 3 000 EUR/month