AREAS OF EXPERTISE

• Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls and load - balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
• Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall, Cisco ASA and Checkpoint Firewall.
• Expertise with Cisco ACE, F5 and Citrix Load Balancers.
• Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience, including various flavors of STP, ARP, QOS, etc.
• Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols, including broadcast, multicast, anycast concepts, routing, etc.
• Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)
• Fluency with common network admin and intrusion detection tools such as Rancid, OpenNMS, Nagios, Ethereal/Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, etc.
• Administrative scripting skills (Perl, UNIX shell scripting)
• In-depth knowledge of Cisco IOS, NX-OS, both Cisco Nexus 1K, 2K, 5K 7K and non-Nexus series switches, Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.
• Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.
• In-depth knowledge of MPLS network.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Network Architect

Confidential, Pleasanton

Responsibilities:

• Oversee planning, design, implementation, and operation of network infrastructure projects and participate in the specification of business requirements and implementation plans for technically advanced internetworking solutions
• Manage implementation of network infrastructure projects, from both technical and communication aspects.
• Review network design for network security and other risks during course of projects. Serve as a liaison to vendors and/or third - party providers as assigned
• Provide on-site and remote technical assistance to other resources and to customers
• Provide infrastructure design, implementation planning, deployment support, software strategy, system troubleshooting, performance engineering and optimization, maintenance strategy.
• Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfer and mentorship to State Fund internal engineering peers as required and lead technical staff responsibilities.
• Establishes networking environment by designing system configuration; directing system installation; defining, documenting, and enforcing system standards.
• Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with other team on network optimization.
• Secures network and server systems by establishing and enforcing policies; defining and monitoring access.
• Accomplishes information systems and organization mission by completing related results as needed.
• Reporting network operational status by gathering, prioritizing information.
• Minimum of 7+ years related network engineering and customer support experience.
• At least 5+ years of Data Center experience.
• Project Management, Problem Solving, Expert LAN and WAN Knowledge, Complex Network Design and Implementation, Network Troubleshooting, Network Hardware Configuration, Network Performance Tuning, People Management.