Data Center Network Service Delivery Manager (TX DIR)

Peraton is hiring a Data Center Network Service Delivery Manager to support the Texas Department of Information Resources (DIR).This position provides overall network service delivery leadership across the Austin Data Center (ADC) San Angelo Data Center (SDC) and CyrusOne colocation nodes in Austin Dallas and San successful candidate will oversee a complex enterprise data center network environment encompassing theDCN Ring LAN infrastructure firewalls load balancers cloud connectivity VRFs routing Software-Defined Networking (SDN) remote access infrastructure firewall automation and network laboratory operations.

Candidate must be willing to travel to both sites- Austin and San Angelo TX. and must be local to the Austin TX area or willing to relocate.

Key Responsibilities:

• Maintainoverall accountability for all data center network servicesacross:
• Austin Data Center (ADC)
• San Angelo Data Center (SDC)
• CyrusOne colocation nodes
• ManageDCN Ring operations including a20 Gbps MPLS network across five locations:
• Austin Data Center
• San Angelo Data Center
• Austin CyrusOne
• Dallas CyrusOne
• San Antonio CyrusOne
• Oversee LAN operations at both Consolidated Data Centers including approximately:
• 205 data switches
• 164 fabric extenders
• 64 firewalls
• 44 load balancers
• ManageCyrusOne colocation nodesin:
• Austin
• Dallas
• San Antonio
• Manage public cloud connectivity across:
• Azure Government
• AWS Government
• Azure Commercial
• AWS Commercial
• Oversee approximately60 Gbps of cloud connectivity via Megaport.
• Manage approximately4050 VRFs.
• Provide operational oversight of:
• OSPF
• MPLS
• MP-BGP
• BFD
• LeadSoftware-Defined Networking (SDN) operations and evolution.
• Overseeautomated firewall rule management.
• Manage a minimum500-user two-factor remote access infrastructure.
• Maintain theLAN laboratoryused for pre-production change testing.
• Coordinate network service delivery operational performance change management incident resolution and infrastructure evolution.
• Maintain network availability stability security and performance across the in-scope environment.

Required Qualifications:

• 10 years of experience may have supervisory or lead experience
• 8 years of enterprise data center networking experience.
• Demonstrated experience withMPLS BGP and OSPF routing design and operations
• Cisco data center platform experience including:
• Cisco ASR routers
• Cisco Nexus switches
• Software-Defined Networking (SDN) design and operations experience
• Experience with firewall management andnetwork security operations.
• Experience managingmulti-tenant network environments including:
• VRF
• MPLS
• Strong understanding of enterprise data center network architecture routing switching security and connectivity.
• Experience managing complex high-availability network environments.
• Strong network service delivery and operational leadership experience.
• Cisco CCNP (Data Center or Enterprise) Certification
• Must be a US Citizen

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience withcloud connectivity including:
• Megaport
• AWS Direct Connect
• Azure ExpressRoute
• Cisco CCIEstrongly preferred.
• ITIL Foundationpreferred.
• Government IT networking experience preferred.
• Experience managing network infrastructure within agovernment or regulated environment.
• Experience with large-scale multi-site data center networks.
• Experience with SDN transformation and network modernization.
• Experience with network automation and automated security rule management.
• Experience supporting multi-vendor/MSI government IT environments.

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