Architect, SDN

Presidio, Where Teamwork and Innovation Shape the Future
At Presidio, we're at the forefront of a global technology revolution, transforming industries through cutting-edge digital solutions and next-generation AI. We empower businesses - and their internal customers - to achieve more through innovation, automation, and intelligent insights. 

The Role, SDN Architect

Presidio is seeking an Architect to join our Illinois Team.  Presidio is looking for a detail-oriented Architect with strong technical and leadership skills who can work in a fast-paced environment that requires a great deal of interaction among associates and executives. The ideal candidate must be a people person who can work in groups on various projects. The individual must also have strong verbal and written communication skills and be comfortable interacting with diverse people. The candidate must know the importance of time management and prioritization to manage deadlines with a great sense of detail. At the same time, also can see the “big picture,” multi-task, and take the initiative when needed. The individual for this role must be comfortable with technical hands-on engineering and the ability to lead customer engagements.  

The candidate must be passionate about learning new technology and want to drive technical solution direction. Ideally, the individual must work with little oversight but remain engaged with internal sales and presales engineering resources through internal collaboration tools.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop technical architecture on behalf of Presidio around Cloud, Data Center, Collaboration, and Campus Networks practice technologies utilizing related manufacturers products. Refining deployment architectures presented by the Solutions Architecture Group.
• Stay current with technology trends, customer needs, and market demand to recommend, modify and implement appropriate solution architectures to align with customer requirements.
• Ensure compliance with company policies, procedures, and objectives regarding processes, initiatives, and projects.
• Provides technical leadership on Data Center Networks technology area to both pre and post-sales engineers
• Primary responsibilities include performing project-based engineering, design, installation, and troubleshooting of data/security networks
• Lead Engineer for customer projects, including design, implementation, testing, and support for new deployments, expansions, environment refresh, and upgrades. This includes troubleshooting customer environments
• Working with the engineering team to successfully implement data center network solutions
• LAN routing, switching, and security configuration and deployment in medium to very large environments
• Provide network engineering consulting services, including assessment, design, and implementation of data and secure networking environments
• Assist clients through planning, design, and implementation of data center communications networks
• Creates technical deliverables, including network assessments, capacity planning, detailed design documents, implementation plans, configurations, and change orders.
• Lead technical discussions to understand business requirements and translate them into functional specifications
• Comfortable presenting to customer audience on technical design and new product enablement.
• Develop comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively manage the implementation process from design to customer acceptance
• Provides peer reviews of implementations, configurations, and documentation for team members.
• Assists other team members with deployment or best practices.
• Engages in continuous learning to stay abreast of new and emerging technologies.
• Obtain vendor-related certifications to enhance professional development and our corporate standing with our vendors.

Required Skills:

• Strong knowledge and experience with design, implementation, and support of 2 or more of  the following:
  • Complex routing / switching solutions (Cisco is a must, Nexus strongly preferred)
  • Network Virtualization – VMware NSX, VXLAN, Multi-VRF and VRF-Lite
  • Production deployment experience with ACI, NSX, and/or SD-Access 
  • Server Access Networking – Cisco UCS, vSphere Distributed Networking
  • Webex Calling network routing via Equinix
  • (expert) Unicast Routing protocols—OSPF, EIGRP, BGP
  • Data Center Interconnect strategy – OTV, LISP, VPLS, EVPN
  • Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR, NXOS
  • WAN connectivity such as DWDM, MPLS, Metro-E
  • Implementation of SD-WAN, DM-VPN, Cloud connect services.
  • Load balancing solutions (F5, Citrix, HA Proxy/NGINX )
  • Cisco Meraki
• Proficient or familiar with automation or scripting (any of the following: Python, Ruby, Ansible )
• Must be highly knowledgeable in IP Networking, enterprise architecture, IPSec, Routers, Switches, Load Balancers, Firewalls, and other security appliances
• Strong, soft skills preferred. This is a technical lead role with the ability to oversee customer and internal technical engineering resources for project completion and success.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
• 5+ years of networking experience, including configuring, analyzing & troubleshooting complex networks
• Cisco® CCNP/CCIE certificate or equivalent experience
• Prior experience working closely with customers and collaborating with IT staff
• Strong industry knowledge and expertise in building comprehensive solutions.
• Strong communication skills
• Solid documentation experience with Microsoft® Visio, Word, and Excel
• Ambitious and goal-oriented, with the initiative to work until the job is complete

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Experience with Arista is preferred 
• Firewalls/VPNs administration (Cisco/Palo Alto/Check Point /Juniper are a plus)
• Authentication solutions including Microsoft LDAP/TACACS+
• Familiarity with Multicast PIM Sparse/Dense, MSDP
• Quality of Service (QOS) understanding and configuration.
• IDS/IPS solutions (Sourcefire/Palo Alto a plus)
• Malware Prevention (FireEye/Sourcefire/Palo Alto a plus)
• Load balancing/Acceleration solutions (Cisco, F5, Riverbed) a plus
• Authentication solutions including 802.1x/RADIUS/TACACS and RSA
• VMware and Citrix virtualization solutions
• Cisco WLAN (WLCs, Prime, MSE)
• Related experience with project deliverables from a VAR/Integrator 

Your future at Presidio
Joining Presidio means stepping into a culture of trailblazers - thinkers, builders, and collaborators - who push the boundaries of what's possible. With our expertise AI-driven analytics, cloud solutions, cybersecurity, and next-gen infrastructure, we enable businesses to stay ahead in an ever-evolving digital world.

Here, your impact is real. Whether you're harnessing the power of Generative AI, architecting resilient digital ecosystems, or driving data-driven transformation, you'll be part of a team that is shaping the future.

Ready to innovate? Let's redefine what's next-together.

About Presidio
Presidio is committed to hiring the most qualified candidates to join our amazing culture. We aim to attract and hire top talent from all backgrounds, including underrepresented and marginalized communities. We encourage women, people of color, people with disabilities, and veterans to apply for open roles at Presidio. Diversity of skills and thought is a key component to our business success.

At Presidio, speed and quality meet technology and innovation. Presidio is a trusted ally for organizations across industries with a decades-long history of building traditional IT foundations and deep expertise in AI and automation, security, networking, digital transformation, and cloud computing. Presidio fills gaps, removes hurdles, optimizes costs, and reduces risk. Presidio's expert technical team develops custom applications, provides managed services, and enables actionable data insights and builds forward-thinking solutions that drive strategic outcomes for clients globally. For more information visit https://presidio.com

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

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