Senior Enterprise Network Architect

City of Concord; Concord (NC); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

The City of Concord is seeking an experienced Network Architect to design, implement, and maintain the City’s enterprise LAN/WAN, ensuring scalability and security. You will establish architecture standards, document diagrams, evaluate new technologies, and oversee routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, wireless, and the data center/server environment; a focus on disaster recovery and secure operation.

This role requires CCNP or CCDP/CCDE and NSE certifications preferred, and a valid North Carolina

Qualifications

• Enterprise network architecture and design principles, including redundancy and disaster recovery
• Networking methods, materials and equipment
• Enterprise switching and routing platforms
• Enterprise firewall administration, VPN, and security policy management
• Network protocols, including BGP, QoS, data center networking, NAC/802.1X, cloud/hybrid connectivity and enterprise monitoring software

Responsibilities

• Architect and administers all of the City’s enterprise networks, including infrastructure design, implementation, configuration, and maintenance of routers, firewalls, switches, VPN hardware, and wireless
• Develops and maintains network architecture standards, logical/physical diagrams, and design documentation to support scalability, resiliency, and disaster recovery planning
• Evaluates emerging networking and security technologies and makes recommendations on architecture upgrades, hardware refresh cycles, and capacity planning
• Aids in the design and administration of the City’s server environment
• Provides support of network infrastructure to ensure successful performance and secure operation of the enterprise network
• Performs device configuration maintenance, firewall management & troubleshooting
• Performs device and traffic monitoring, analysis, management and troubleshooting
• Develops usage and security metrics to allow for the detection of abnormal activities
• Administers overall network security, including planning and oversight of penetration and vulnerability testing performed internally or by third-party assessors
• Performs security audits from internal and external parties
• Investigates security incidents and researches and implements solutions
• Identifies and remediates network vulnerabilities
• Performs other similar duties as required.

Skills

Enterprise network architecture

Redundancy planning

Disaster recovery

Security policy management

Education

CCNP

CCDP/CCDE

NSE4/NSE7

CEH

CND

Driver's License

Job description

The City of Concord is seeking an experienced Network Architect to design, implement, and maintain the City’s enterprise LAN/WAN, ensuring scalability and security. You will establish architecture standards, document diagrams, evaluate new technologies, and oversee routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, wireless, and the data center/server environment; a focus on disaster recovery and secure operation.

This role requires CCNP or CCDP/CCDE and NSE certifications preferred, and a valid North Carolina