Network Architect
Job Location:
Pleasanton, CA - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not provided by the employer
Posted:
25 October 2026 (9 hours ago)
Application Deadline:
22 January 2027
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
Must Haves:
Thorough understanding of networking technologies including administration of enterprise routers switches firewalls IDS/IPS and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience including various flavors of STP ARP QOS etc.
Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols including broadcast multicast anycast concepts routing etc.
Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP)
Technical Skills:
Thorough understanding of networking technologies including administration of enterprise routers switches firewalls IDS/IPS and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA.
Expertise with F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience including various flavors of STP ARP QOS etc.
Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols including broadcast multicast anycast concepts routing etc.
Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP)
Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole including but not limited to: ACLs Stateful firewalls VPNs (tunneling IPsec SSL etc.)
Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such as Rancid OpenNMS Nagios Solarwinds Wireshark Nmap Nessus Netflow Sflow etc.
Administrative scripting skills (Perl UNIX shell scripting)
In-depth knowledge of Cisco IOS NX-OS both Cisco Nexus 1K 2K 5K 7K 9K and non-Nexus series switches Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.
Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.
In-depth knowledge of MPLS network.
Experience in Cisco Fabric interconnect configuration
Must have Nexus 9K and VPC experience
Advanced knowledge of Cisco F5 Palo alto firewall Websense/focepoint juniper and other vendor equipment and configuration
advanced knowledge and experience with routing protocols (bgp rip ospf etc)
must have experience in Juniper junos pulse vpn
In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation
Expertise and Hands-on experience with Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation
Deep domain expertise in networking network security and public/private clouds
Cisco Viptela Sd-wan experience & Cisco DNA center experience
Preferred Skills:
Experience deploying and maintaining wireless networks
Working knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2 ELB RDS S3 Route53 VPC Cloud formation SSM and Transit gateway
Experience deploying and maintaining VOIP deployments (network side not telecom)
Project Management Experience
Experience with Scripting and Automation technologies
Thorough understanding of networking technologies including administration of enterprise routers switches firewalls IDS/IPS and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience including various flavors of STP ARP QOS etc.
Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols including broadcast multicast anycast concepts routing etc.
Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP)
Technical Skills:
Thorough understanding of networking technologies including administration of enterprise routers switches firewalls IDS/IPS and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
Expertise with Palo Alto Network Firewall and Cisco ASA.
Expertise with F5 Load Balancers and AWS ELB.
Strong OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience including various flavors of STP ARP QOS etc.
Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols including broadcast multicast anycast concepts routing etc.
Expertise with various routing protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP)
Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole including but not limited to: ACLs Stateful firewalls VPNs (tunneling IPsec SSL etc.)
Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such as Rancid OpenNMS Nagios Solarwinds Wireshark Nmap Nessus Netflow Sflow etc.
Administrative scripting skills (Perl UNIX shell scripting)
In-depth knowledge of Cisco IOS NX-OS both Cisco Nexus 1K 2K 5K 7K 9K and non-Nexus series switches Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.
Solid understanding of data center related technology and collocation environment.
In-depth knowledge of MPLS network.
Experience in Cisco Fabric interconnect configuration
Must have Nexus 9K and VPC experience
Advanced knowledge of Cisco F5 Palo alto firewall Websense/focepoint juniper and other vendor equipment and configuration
advanced knowledge and experience with routing protocols (bgp rip ospf etc)
must have experience in Juniper junos pulse vpn
In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation
Expertise and Hands-on experience with Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation
Deep domain expertise in networking network security and public/private clouds
Cisco Viptela Sd-wan experience & Cisco DNA center experience
Preferred Skills:
Experience deploying and maintaining wireless networks
Working knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2 ELB RDS S3 Route53 VPC Cloud formation SSM and Transit gateway
Experience deploying and maintaining VOIP deployments (network side not telecom)
Project Management Experience
Experience with Scripting and Automation technologies
Required Experience:
Staff IC
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