Job ID :
9265
Company :
State of Arkansas
Location :
LITTLE ROCK, AR
Type :
Contract
Duration :
8+ months
Salary :
Open
Status :
Active
Openings :
1
Posted :
24 Aug 2016
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Short Description:  Senior Network Architect/Developer  is responsible for developing new and evaluating existing network systems and standards.

Complete Description:  Local candidates preferred.
Years of Relevant Experience: 10 plus
Preferred Education: 4 year college degree or equivalent technical study or advanced degree

Role Description:
Work with developers, system/network administrators, and other colleagues to ensure secure design, development, and implementation of applications and networks
Perform security design/architecture reviews and code reviews of large applications, systems and networks Provide remediation guidance and recommendations to programmers and administrators
Define security best practices and standards
Focused on the end-to-end creation to management of IT network architecture models and their lower level components. 
Ensure that the respective business, application, data and technology perspectives are in line with the organization’s technology and governance strategies, policies and standards. 

As well as the following:
Understands government business process and operations
Ability to transition business processes into business and technical requirements
Project Management experience
Reviews, analyzes, and evaluates business systems and user needs
Works well with IT and functional areas
Designs architecture for an organization on an enterprise level
Evaluates and revises business processes
Leads and directs the work of others
Anticipates and resolves issues
Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors progress
Proficient in one or more project management tools
Ensures that all project goals are accomplished according to specifications and business objectives
Determine time estimates and schedule for own work and resolve issues in a timely manner
Identify and track issues, risks and action items
Anticipate, identify, track and resolve issues and risks affecting own work and work of the project team.  Develop contingency plans as necessary.
Consistently provides accurate and detailed estimates
May analyze or recommend commercially available software or other IT architectural components
Execution of all responsibilities with little direct supervision
Proficient in one IT architectural discipline
Proficient in developing and providing high-level executive briefings.
Mentor and coach peers
Provide knowledge transfer to peers.


Skill
Required / Desired
Amount
of Experience
Enterprise Level IT Network Development/Design/Upgrade/Maintenance
Required
10
Years
TCP/IP, ACLs, ZBFW, DMVPN, MPLS, VoIP, QoS, SNMP, VPC, and VSS
Required
4
Years
Cisco IOS/NX-OS configuration and troubleshooting across multiple platforms including routers and switches
Required
8
Years
VoIP and Cisco Unified Communications
Required
7
Years
LAN Switching, including VLANs, VLAN trunking, port channels, port security, HSRP, and Spanning Tree
Required
7
Years
Designing and administrating WAN acceleration and load balancing technologies
Required
6
Years
Network routing protocol troubleshooting skills (EIGRP, BGP), switching technologies, firewall technologies, WAN, LAN, and Wi-Fi
Required
4
Years
Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
Required
5
Years
Security/Firewall Installation
Required
7
Years
Certifications
Required