Principal Network Architect

An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives.  Come join the excellence!

Overview

Researches, designs, plans, develops and/or evaluates new, advanced network technologies by translating customer requirements or strategic business objectives into final product design. Work typically includes in-depth assessment of the customer’s networked application needs, providing network modeling and simulation testing, consulting to further clarify needs, and engineering high-speed technology network transports to deliver application functionality.

Responsibilities

As a member of the Network Architecture Engineering team, you are responsible for the design, documentation and deployment of services within a global Managed Service Provider IP/MPLS network.

• Primary focus is on designing and supporting solutions specific to our Communications market, developing the architecture that supports our wide portfolio of products to this market, including LTE Roaming and clearing, Caller ID and protection services, Messaging services, SS7 and mobile signalling services.
• Additionally you will design solutions such as large-scale SD-WAN, IPSec and MPLS VPN, IP multicast solutions and public cloud interconnects across wired and wireless comms.
• The role comes at an exciting time for TNS as we integrate services into private- and public-cloud environments, with a focus on automation and orchestration of services and look to transform to a NetDevOps model, where this role will play a key part.  
• The position requires technical expertise across multiple areas and functions – ability to work with pre-sales and internal teams on requirements gathering, creation of high-level and detailed design specs, ability to work alongside development teams to automate configuration, delivery and support processes, and ownership of overall projects. 
• Selected candidate will also work with strategic vendors for solution evaluation and customization and will provide third-level Operations support for incident resolution, and leadership over critical operational maintenance works.

Qualifications

Essential Skills:

The following technical expertise is sought, transferable skills in other areas of network and infrastructure design and support will also be strongly considered:

• Experience with architecture and provisioning of solutions within MPLS or SD-WAN based environments

• Proficient in IPSec (including DMVPN and RRI) design, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting

• Data Center design and support (Cisco Nexus, Arista, Juniper)

• Experience with Server Load-Balancing (F5, Netscaler, AWS ALB/SLB)

• Experience in designing cloud-based architectures in AWS/Azure/GCP

• Proficient in IP Multicast design, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting

• Experience in network design and implementation based on high-level customer requirements

• Extensive TCP/IP and routing knowledge (BGP, OSPF, ISIS, EIGRP, PIM, BFD).

• Experience with Customer Edge features such as Network Address Translation, VRRP/HSRP

• Proven ability to create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented solutions

• Knowledge of SS7 signalling

• Expert-level troubleshooting and debugging skills

• Experience in vendor product evaluation (hardware, software, service provider)

• Experience and technical understanding of broadband service deployments (xDSL, Cable).

• Ability to design, plan, and coordinate network maintenance and installation windows.

• Hardworking, focused, thorough, and punctual

• Ability to provide written and verbal presentations on technical topics to corporate peers and management

• Experience providing support for Tier1 and Tier2 environments

• Self-motivated; able to work independently or within a team environment with minimum instruction from management

• Able to work flexible hours as required and provide on-call support

• Designs the overall system, and how different systems integrate across different groups

• Defines the expected outcome by working with business stakeholders and providing a clear understanding of the delivery objective on the part of the technical team

• Connects the dots across the organization and ensures consistency within different teams to avoid issues

• Define Monitoring and Alerting Mechanisms

• Analyze Functional Requirements

• Define Non-Functional Requirements

• Technology Selection

• Prototyping and Proof of Concept

• Solution Design and Delivery

• Solution Scaling

Desirable Skills:

• Fortinet, Cisco and/or Juniper certifications (NSE Level 4/5/6/7, CCIE/CCNP-SP, JNCIE, JNCIP)

• Hands-on experience with the design and configuration of Fortinet FortiGate devices, particularly within SD-WAN topologies

• Experience with network automation and orchestration tools and features and DevOps methodology (e.g. Terraform, Ansible, JSON, Nautobot, Vendor-specific  tools like Arista Cloudvision, Cisco DNA Center)

• Experience with AAA, Tacacs+, Radius, and CA/PKI

• Experience with Voice over IP, Dial Services (Async/PPP, ISDN), Wireless services (CDMA, EVDO, GPRS, EDGE, 802.11b/g/n), Server Load-Balancing (F5)

• Experience of GIT, Jenkins, and other DevOps tools and Agile working practices

• Creating and deploying CloudFormation templates.

• Automating using other scripting/automation languages such as Python, Ansible and vendor-specific tools like Arista Cloudvision, Cisco DNA Center is beneficial

• Firewall configuration experience with PIX/ASA, IOS, or Netscreen/JunOS

• Designing, building and automating AWS/GCP/Azure architecture

• Designing, building and automating NSX-V and/or NSX-T networking

• Designing, building and automating Openstack (Canonical or RedHat)

• UNIX/Linux Experience

• For this role, we anticipate paying $155k - $185K. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate’s knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. TNS offers a competitive benefit package including medical and dental coverage, life insurance, paid holidays and vacations, and a 401K plan with company match.

If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!

TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.