Core IT Networking Specialist

Are you a Core IT Networking Specialist looking to join one of the top companies in the Aerospace and Defense industry?

Are you looking to further your career and grow?

Do you have experience with datacenter management, consolidation, IT operations, and M&A activities?

If you answered yes to those three questions, then apply today!

Acara Solutions seeks highly qualified candidates to work Onsite with our client in Tampa, FL. Interested?

Here's what you'd do:

• Provide leadership for Network Systems Engineering associated team members.
• Leads enterprise network team in design, deployment and support expectations for enterprise networking platform on-premise and cloud hosted.
• Responsible for assuring all enterprise networks platforms are efficiently architected/designed, deployed, and optimized to ensure future growth and comply with industry and regulatory requirements.
• Ensures status reports/logging is digested to accurately capture, evaluate, and optimize enterprise network.
• Work closely with 3rd parties, affiliates, and cross functional teams to ensure enterprise and engineering platforms operate efficiently and securely across the enterprise network, private networks, and public internet services.
• Solves problems and makes decisions daily relative to network issues.
• Ensures that effective representation takes place for the coordination of work processes and projects with other departments and divisions.
• Participate in all Mergers & Acquisition (M&A) activities including due diligence, data gathering, and leading integration efforts.
• Designs a roadmap for the creation/expansion of existing enterprise network to scale-out through M&A activities while maintaining command, control, compliance of the global enterprise network across all client USA sites.
• Reviews and enhances IT policy and procedures to ensure all IT platforms are compliant with corporate policies and guidelines with regards to enterprise networking.
• Ensure adequate staff/scheduling of Network Engineers for both daily and on-call operations providing 24/7 support for the production enterprise network.
• Participate in ongoing optimization and preparation for disaster preparedness including supporting key roles in the Business Continuity Plan (BCP), Disaster Recovery Plan (DRP).
• Provides value by bringing a passion to continually discover ways to improve current processes and suggest new processes to add growing value.
• Assists in business analysis to determine and clarify informational requirements and business opportunities.
• Maintains a central source of information such as a knowledge base enabling support staff to recover from outages with minimal disruption to expected service levels.
• Lifecycle management of all enterprise networking software and hardware.
• This includes budgetary responsibility over enterprise networking product evaluation, purchase/upgrades, renewals, and decommission.
• Interacts with vendors, suppliers, and contractors for equipment and carrier services.
• Comply with all company security and data protection / usage policies and procedures.
• Personally responsible for proper marking and handling of all information and materials, in any form.
• Shall not divulge any information, or afford access, to other employees not having a need-to-know.
• Shall not divulge information outside company without management approval.
• All government and proprietary information will be accessed and stored electronically on company provided resources.

Here's what you'll get:

Pay: $140000.00 - $150000.00/year

Hours: 40 hrs/week

Length: Direct Placement

Sounds like a good fit?

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About Acara Solutions

Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Required Skills:

• Associate Degree
• Minimum 8 years of experience with supporting a complex enterprise networking environment.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with datacenter management, consolidation, IT operations, and M&A activities.
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Enterprise Switching/Routing (L2/L3) Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, Arista
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Cisco Edge Routers (ASR, ISR)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Firewall/IPS/IDS (Palo Alto)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with VPN (Cisco ASA, Palo Alto)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with SDWAN Technologies (SilverPeak, Arista, Palo Alto)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Microsoft Azure Networking Services (VNet, NSG, Azure Firewalls, Traffic Manager)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Load Balancing Technology (F5, Azure, Cloudflare, Citrix Netscaler)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Infoblox BloxOne DDI (IPAM/DNS/DNS Protection)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with DIA & MPLS Carrier Management
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Collaboration Technologies with Enterprise Voice (Microsoft Teams)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with Network Configuration/Monitoring (PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios)
• Minimum 10 years of experience with systems deployment and support across a multi-site enterprise.

Preferred Skills:

• Bachelors Degree
• Experience with Cloud Security Appliances and Security Solutions (CASB).
• Knowledge and experience working with VMware vSphere and Hyper-V.
• Knowledge and experience supporting a Microsoft Windows network.
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), VMware Certified Professional Network Virtualization (VCP-NV), CompTIA Network+.
• Security+ and Cloud+ (Or equivalent IA cert) and CompTIA Network+.
• CCNP Cloud, AWS Certified Advanced Networking, Azure Administrator Associate, or Azure Security Engineer Associate.
• Arista Cloud Engineer (ACE) L3-L5.
• Significant Experience with DNS/DHCP/NAT/FW Security.
• Applicants must have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check and a drug screen.
• In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be needed to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the necessary employment eligibility verification form upon hire.
• Duties performed in an office environment and manufacturing facility.
• Must be able to work overtime, on and off-shifts as required.
• The employee is on call 24x7 for the resolution of problems and issues.
• The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.
• Employees are regularly required to sit, talk or hear, in person, in meetings and by telephone.
• Manual dexterity to operate computers or other standard office equipment; and reach with hands and arms.
• Able to support rack mounted equipment (up to 7 feet off the ground).
• Under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), all employees assigned to this client must provide documentation verifying their status as a 'U.S. Person,' as defined in ITAR clause 120.15. A U.S. Person is a protected individual under the anti-discrimination provisions of U.S. immigration laws.

Aleron companies (Acara Solutions, Aleron Shared Resources, Broadleaf Results, Lume Strategies, TalentRise, Viaduct) are an Equal Opportunity Employer. Race/Color/Gender/Religion/National Origin/Disability/Veteran.

Applicants for this position must be legally authorized to work in the United States. This position does not meet the employment requirements for individuals with F-1 OPT STEM work authorization status.