Senior Technical Specialist

Summary

Join us as a Senior Technical Specialist and provide strategic and technical leadership, design, direction, and guidance for our client's network infrastructure. Reporting to the Senior Director of Network Engineering, you will play a key role in developing and implementing the client's Enterprise Network Services strategy. This includes designing, testing, and implementing various network infrastructures (WAN, MAN, LAN, Wireless). You will be responsible for the network architecture and security posture, ensuring compliance with engineering standards and policies. You will also manage technology vendors, oversee operations, and continuously improve network services. This is a remote position located in Raleigh, NC with a duration of 12+ months.

Requirements

• Lead architect for design of the network architecture and security for on-premises network infrastructures and cloud connecting network architectures. 5 years experience required
• Develop tech functional reqmnts doc, test plans, specification docs, implementation plans, and proj plans to support network infra and cloud connectivity. 5 years experience required
• Develop and administer all enterprise-wide network infrastructure standards and operational policies. 5 years experience required
• Experience with ownership of overseeing, improving, and upgrading all enterprise network hardware and software. 5 years experience required
• Be responsible for the overall network infrastructure security posture. 5 years experience required

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic and technical leadership, design, direction, oversight, and guidance for client
• Assist the Senior Engineering Director in executing the Networking Service Portfolio Vision
• Develop the client Enterprise Network Services Service Strategy (SS), Service Design (SD), Service Transition (ST), Service Operations (SO) and Continual Service Improvement (CSI) plans
• Perform research, planning, design, testing and implementation of enterprise and agency specific Wide Area Network, Metro Area Network, Local Area Network, and Wireless Enterprise Network infrastructures
• Be the lead architect for design of the network architecture and security posture specific to all client’s on-premises network infrastructures and cloud connecting network architectures
• Architecture design includes product selections, infrastructure designs, infrastructure capacity, infrastructure reliability, infrastructure security, testing, tuning and optimization
• Review and analyze business requirements provided by the Senior Director to develop technical network solutions, operational standards, and deployment guides
• Brief the Senior Director on the evaluation and or recommendation of security products or procedures to enhance productivity and effectiveness of the network infrastructure and cloud connecting network infrastructure
• Coordinate with the Senior Director on the initiation, prioritization, and successful completion of all levels of network infrastructure and cloud connecting network projects
• Develop technology functional requirement documents, test plans, specification documents, implementation plans, and project plans to support network and cloud connecting network infrastructures
• Develop and administer all enterprise-wide network infrastructure standards and operational policies
• Oversee, improve, and upgrade all enterprise network hardware and software
• Be responsible for Service Transition to include planning, support validation, testing, test models, transition plan, knowledge transfer, and product release deployment management
• Oversee operations and processes required to maintain resource capacity utilization levels and software support levels of the client networks
• Ensure network infrastructure and cloud connecting infrastructure operational capacity is in place ahead of future business needs
• Manage technology vendors while staying on top of technology advancements and new capabilities
• Be responsible for the overall network infrastructure security posture by evaluating business strategies and requirements, researching information security standards, conducting system security and vulnerability analysis, studying architecture/platforms, and identifying integration issues while implementing strong security controls
• Identify potential areas where existing network security policies and procedures require change or new policies need to be developed to support future changes to the network infrastructure
• Maintain security by monitoring and ensuring compliance to engineering standards, policies, and procedures
• Brief the Senior Director on overall network status to include operational status, software status, device deployment status, capacity metrics, data analytics and critical security issues that may affect client or customer agencies
• Own Continual Service Improvement specific to network infrastructure and cloud connecting network infrastructure. Continual Service Improvement includes ownership of service reporting, service measurement, network device configuration enhancements, network device software management, process improvements and overall management of in-direct or direct requests for network infrastructure improvements