Network Architect

Network Architect urgently required for interesting contract in Eindhoven or Hamburg

The Network Architect will be Responsible for the following:

- Maintains technical designs, data and information of Customer's landscape
- Responsible for maintaining the entire customer landscape and for that to have an integrated overview of the landscape
- Participates in P1 calls, willing to work on On-call
- Responsible for Quality of RCA
- Responsible for Quality of Impact Analysis
- Responsible for landscape risk management (Identifies Single Points of Failures, etc.)
- Reports improvements and advices SDM regarding the quality of ITIL processes like configuration, release and life cycle management
- Responsible for ensuring that all designs meet NXP standards and all exceptions are documented
- Guards and accepts technical landscape designs
- Act as advisor to Business Relation Manager (BRM) and technical engineers
- Advice and approve change process with medium/high impact
- Reports to Lead Architect
- The Network Architect will ideally have the following skills and expertise:

* Proficiency in Monitoring and Management tools - Prime, DCNM, Thousand Eyes, NetBrain
* Understanding of Networking Security Best Practices
* In-depth knowledge in Cisco Switching (C7000, Nexus 9000, 5000 series Switches and Catalyst 3650, 3850)
* In-depth knowledge in Routing (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF)
* Good understanding of Cisco 6500/4500 series Layer 3 and Layer 2
* In-depth knowledge in Cisco Wireless (WLC - 2500 and 5500 series, 3850 WLC, WAP, Autonomous WAP)
* Cisco Routing (ASR1K, 4300, 2900)
* Good understanding of Cisco VPN Routers
* Software Defined Network (SDN) Products/Technologies - ACI, Big Switch, NSX (Any of them)
* Cisco ISE
* TACACS and Radius
* DNS, DHCP and IP Addressing Solutions - Bluecat, Efficient IP or similar
* Firewalls - Palo-Alto, Cisco ASA (Preferred, not mandatory)
* Load Balancers - F5, NetScaler or Cisco ACS