Network Architect

🔥 16 hours ago

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

💵 $70k - $100k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

🛜 Network Engineer / Network Administrator

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Zayo Group

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

📦 Logistics

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

💰 $92.9M Grant on 2023-06

Logistics • Consulting • Healthcare

Zayo Group is a leading global provider of communication infrastructure services, offering a wide range of products and services including fiber & transport, network connectivity, mobile infrastructure, private networks, and various managed services like SD-WAN and security solutions. Zayo's extensive network spans over 145,000 route miles of fiber and connects over 1,500 data centers worldwide. Its services cater to various industries including education, finance, healthcare, retail, media & entertainment, and more, helping businesses achieve scalable and secure connectivity solutions. With a focus on innovation and customer success, Zayo continuously invests in network expansion and service delivery excellence.

📋 Description

• Take responsibility for the analysis, definition, and continued development of Zayo’s end-to-end Layer 2 and Layer 3 architecture • Work with team members and groups to develop scalable network designs, solutions, and policy recommendations • Analyze and drive key platform decisions and directions; provide guidance to network planning and operations groups • Support internal product groups by identifying and presenting network-impacting requirements to service activation and network operations teams • Support and lead development of Zayo’s growing network infrastructure through published architecture design documents • Provide technical guidance for NCC support teams • Conduct extensive lab testing of new architectures, platforms, and inter-networking software • Promote Zayo’s Enterprise Networks product development • Participate in discussions at standards development organizations such as NANOG, MEF, IETF, and other conferences • Design, implement, and document new technologies; provide top-tier troubleshooting and customer support • Guide network architecture, Ethernet and IP product design standards and enhancements, production network issues and escalations, and vendor relationships

🎯 Requirements

• Deep and substantial operational knowledge and experience with carrier-class routers, switches, and packet-optical platforms, such as Juniper, Cisco, Nokia-ALU, Infinera, and Ciena/Cyan • Ability to represent Zayo at Standards Development Organizations such as MEF, IEEE, ITU, IETF, ISO, etc. • Excellent knowledge of Ethernet, QOS, MPLS/RSVP-TE, L2Circuit/VLL, VPLS-BGP/LDP, L3VPN, G.8032v2, E-OAM, Y.1731, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, and SNMP protocols • Skills in building Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks in metro and long-haul applications • Experience modeling financial impacts of decisions • Strong vendor negotiation skills • Skills in Perl/Python scripting, automation, NETCONF/YANG, and EMS/NMS • Strong written and oral communication skills with the ability to influence others with engineering solutions • Bachelor's Degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent experience • Minimum of six (6) years of experience in engineering, architecture, or design of an ISP network • Must have worked in “zero downtime” environments previously