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Are you an Enterprise Network and communications Architect who islookingto join one of the top companies within the Energy and gas industry?
Are you looking to further your career and grow?
Do you have experience with cloud and data centers?
If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!
Acara Solutions is seeking highly qualified candidates to work Hybridwith our client in San Antonio, TX. Interested?
Here's what you'd do:
- The Enterprise Network and Communications Architect is a combined practical and strategic position that involves establishing technical strategy, defining enterprise architectures, and leading architecture roadmaps for Enterprise Network, Voice, and Communications solutions from a technology perspective.
- The position provides technical guidance and training to the implementation teams, serves as technology and best practices evangelist, and ensures that implementations follow the finest of implementation standards and principles.
- This position advises technical management and business areas on key architectural decisions regarding platforms and supporting technologies.
- This position produces technical architectures (documented by deliverables) that are scalable, maintainable, dependable, secure, and meet performance requirements.
- This position represents the Enterprise Information Technology (EIT) organization across clients and works across the company to deliver technical solutions, including providing continuity on major solution decisions, communicating technology solution value across all levels of the company, and ensuring solutions are implemented according to the defined solution architecture and technical standards.
- Responsible for enterprise communicating / network architectural design and planning of complex interactions of IT systems
- Should have a solid understanding of general IT application structures, the supporting components to the network, and general overall wholistic IT functions, operations, security solutions, and general dataflows of an Enterprise Network.
- Develop Enterprise Networking architectural patterns, approaches, and design solutions, research new technologies and approaches
- Create standards and roadmaps, and develop recommendations for migrating to future standards.
- Responsible for the design, architecture, and automation designs of on-premise, wide area, and Cloud networking solutions. Design and architecture of a multi-site, multi-cloud network infrastructure
- Partner with vendors to select appropriate technical solutions.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to develop consensus, drive results, and execute projects across the organization on time and within budget.
- Manage several simultaneous initiatives from conception through implementation.
- Contribute to standards and design patterns. Deliver solutions tailored to internal business requirements.
- Articulate design rationale, flexibly adapt solutions, and iterate designs when required.
- Provide 3rd-level support and input as required to teams diagnosing reported issues, and providing root cause analysis to management and the business teams.
- Work closely with Senior management, Architecture, Application managers, and IT operations teams.
- Enhances efficiency via automation when and wherever possible. Cross-train other team members on projects, and network technologies.
- Address security requirements across the enterprise through the application of appropriate people, processes, and technology
- Develop architectures and roadmaps for large-scale IP networks with multiple routing domains & service providers.
Here's what you'll get:
- Pay Rate:115,800.00 - 150,600.00 yearly.
- Hours: 40 Hours/Week
- Length: Direct Placement
Sound like a good fit?
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About Acara Solutions
Acara is a premier provider of recruiting and workforce solutions we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of needs in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to them, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.
Required Skills / Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- Minimum of 8 years experience in Access and network management
- Minimum of 8 years experience with cloud and data center
- Minimum of 8 years experience in Tech functional on the business side
Preferred Skills / Qualifications:
- Be knowledgeable of past, present, and upcoming network technologies, standards, and best practices to properly plan and integrate solutions in the most effective way
- Enterprise communications and network architecture experience in a complex, multi-platform distributed environment
- Experience with On-Prem / Private, Public Cloud network services.
- CCIE or equivalent technical certification will be beneficial
- Experience in architecting and working with large-scale IP networks with multiple routing domains & service providers, routing protocols including BGP, EIGRP & OSPF.
- Experience architecting and implementing network security & QoS technologies.
- Extensive experience in layered solutions and designs, diverse technical configurations, across multiple technologies and processing environments.
- In-depth understanding of Enterprise Network architecture, operations, and technology trends, as well as security-minded.
- Good leadership skills; coaching and mentoring skills.
- Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills - including negotiation, facilitation, and consensus-building skills; ability to influence and persuade, without direct control.
- Good desire to drive change, and ability to adapt to change quickly.
- Recognized as a thought leader
- High degree of flexibility and ability to work with employees at all levels of the organization with diverse backgrounds.
- Proven ability to work creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
- Excellent written and oral communication and interpersonal skills.
- Excellent leadership and management skills.
- TOGAF Certification
- Able to develop opportunities, pitch, and deliver projects of Network Transformation, Network Roadmaps, automation, and SD-WAN with SASE, Software-Defined Data Centers, Data Management and analytics, IoT, Remote Access, WAN Cost Optimizations
Additional Information:
- Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, sex, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. The Aleron companies welcome and encourage applications from diverse candidates, including people with disabilities. Accommodations are available upon request for applicants taking part in all aspects of the selection process.
Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.
