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Henry Ford Health

Network Architect | Full Time

Henry Ford Health, Rochester Hills, Michigan, United States

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Network Architect | Full Time

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Interpret business requirements into technical network solutions framework. Provide technology roadmaps governed by strategic direction, business requirements, and financial constraints. Liaise with enterprise, server, and applications architects to ensure alignment across technology portfolios.

Principal Duties And Responsibilities

Provide technical direction and frameworks to meet business needs

Provide expert consultation for major network initiatives or incidents

Produce and/or endorse network standards

Provide advice and recommendations specific to customer requirements

Evaluate emerging technologies against business and IT strategic needs

Serve as a key representative on major network initiatives

Analyze technical needs, requirements, and state of the network's infrastructure design, integration, and operations

Work with technical management to architect networks that reflect business needs, service-level and availability requirements, and other technology parameters

Develop design principles, models, plans, internal standards, budgets, and processes based on industry best practices

Establish governing principles for network design and deployment

Participate in selection of networking technologies and products for implementation

Continually update understanding of business and technology status and objectives and respond to strategic design requests as the business evolves

Update standards and guidelines

Write technical and business documentation

Liaise with management and support teams

Assist in scoping and costing of projects

Guide and influence team members and business colleagues

Work with other SMEs and technical support teams to pursue technically excellent solutions

Produce technically excellent solutions architecture aligned to business needs and direction

Education/Experience Required

Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related field, or 10 years of related work experience.

Eight (8) years of experience designing and implementing comprehensive network solutions using Avaya, Cisco, or Juniper products.

Certifications required include Cisco and/or Juniper. Advanced knowledge of protocols including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, and EIGRP, SPB, TRILL.

Strong IPv4 and IPv6 skills.

Knowledge of WAN technologies.

Knowledge of redundancy and high availability protocols such as VRRP, HSRP, GLBP, SLB, LACP, PAGP.

Advanced knowledge of network virtualization technologies including MPLS, VRF, VLAN, VSS.

Advanced knowledge of tunneling protocols including IPSEC, GRE, L2TPv3.

Data Center and high availability design experience.

Advanced knowledge of Quality of Service.

Experience with VOIP components and converged networks.

Experience with network security standards.

Knowledge of Avaya, Cisco, and Juniper network hardware models including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, packet analysis, and WAN accelerators.

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