Overview
Job Title : Network Architect
Job Location : Abu Dhabi, UAE
Responsibilities
- Understand the business strategy and communicate effectively with senior business leaders and C-level executives.
- Analyze technical needs, requirements, and the network's infrastructure design, integration, and operations.
- Translate business requirements to create a network design that meets the requirements and is in line with the technology infrastructure roadmap.
- Focus on building IT architecture that adheres to non-functional requirements, which include performance, security, reliability, and availability of service.
- Analyse the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies in the infrastructure and recommend solutions for improvement.
- Identify the impact of IT infrastructure and ensure that project impacts on the infrastructure are identified, assessed, assured, and documented.
- Develop and define future roadmaps for the infrastructure according to industry trends and best practices.
- Ensure that the capacity planning process for the key systems is managed efficiently.
- Research and recommend network and data communications hardware and software.
- Perform infrastructure audits on current client infrastructure to identify gaps and propose remediation measures.
- Maintain a deep understanding of competitive and complementary technologies and vendors and which solution or technology fits the requirement.
- Considering the organization's needs and requirements, such as information security, and designing networks that meet business goals
- Develop network design best practices.
- Create documentation throughout the design and deployment process.
Required Technical and Professional Expertise
- Strong network architecture skills in architecting technology components across software, infrastructure, and networks
- In-depth knowledge of various communication technologies, such as LAN & WAN, telecommunications systems, wireless systems, and mobile networks
- Detailed knowledge of Windows and / or Unix infrastructure and respective operating systems
- Detailed knowledge of network designs, including wireless and security
- Detailed knowledge of public and private cloud technologies and trends
- Has experience designing business applications. Has an understanding of the non-functional requirements such as reliability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
- Ability to take a loose set of requirements and build a high-level architecture using common standards.
- Ability to develop low-level design (LLD) for proposed network architecture
Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
- Knowledge of networking protocols, designs, and products: Ethernet, IP, switching, routing, fabric path, SD-WAN, etc.
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