INFRASTRUCTURE AND PLATFORM ARCHITECT L2

Job Description

Experience with Cisco, Meraki, Aruba Wireless and Palo Alto Networks.

Experience designing and supporting IP networks optimized for video streaming, live broadcast, or OTT

delivery

Experience as a Network Engineer including

years of supporting complex global network and/or solution engineering in SaaS environments

Experience with network design or support of public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, GCP

Experience with network design and/or solution engineering in SaaS environments

Experience of supporting SD-WAN solutions

Experience of experience with supporting and administering DDI solutions

General Functional Description of Role for Applicable Level:

Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field

- One or more industry leading certifications preferred such as CCNA, JNCIA, CCNP etc.

- Hands-on experience with multicast, unicast, and adaptive bitrate streaming (ABR) technologies in large-scale content distribution environments

- Experience with protocols and standards common in media delivery (e.g., HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, SRT, RTP, IGMP)

- Understanding of QoS, traffic shaping, and network performance optimization for broadcast and streaming workflows

Additional Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

- Motivated, curious self-starter who has the desire to learn

- Ability to solve technical problems with creative solutions

- Strong knowledge of network design and applications, including designing IP addressing hierarchy, complex routing and switching technologies.

- Understanding of network architecture, design of large-scale networks

- Understanding of SDN/SDDC (Software Defined Network or Datacenter – full stack – (compute, storage, network) including experience with AWS, Azure, Openstack, Cloudstack, or related technologies

- Experience with multiple successful implementations (including the ability to configure, deploy, manage, and

troubleshoot) of Cisco routers and switches, site-to-site IPsec tunnels, Palo Alto firewalls, Aruba Wireless and Meraki security appliances, switches and wireless.

- Knowledge of project life cycle management

- Knowledge of change management and MOPs

- Strong knowledge of packet capture and traffic analysis

- Virtualization technologies

- Knowledge of wireless design, technologies, and wireless site survey tools

- Hands-on experience with how to support repeatable, reliable, and scalable network architectures with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.

- Strong knowledge of transport protocols, routing protocols, and security/auth to encryption protocols at all layers of the OSI model with emphasis on TCP/IP are essential

- Knowledge of networking technologies and protocols such as VTP, LACP, 802.1Q, RSTP, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, HSRP, GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, Multicast, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, RADIUS/TACACS+, 802.1x, SNMP, L3VPNs, L2VPNs and IPsec.

- Expertise in IP telephony/Hosted PBX and Call Center management are a plus.

- Expertise in Terraform is a plus

- Broadcast and streaming teams: HLS, MPEG-DASH, RTMP, SRT, RTP, IGMP