Network Solutions Architect in BULGARIA

Workster collaborates with a leading Outsourcing/BPO company that is looking to recruit a Network Architect to join their Team in Bulgaria, either from one of their offices, primarily Sofia or Varna (hybrid), or remote.

A Principal Architect is responsible for the design, implementation, and support for all Sutherland Global Services Infrastructure. This individual will guide and support the delivery of new infrastructure solutions.  As an IT leader a Principal Architect is expected to work closely with the business to fully understand their business requirements and then work closely with their IT counterparts to translate the business requirements to a technical solution.

Your Role

• Analyze the current Infrastructure environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement
• Analyze technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise infrastructure architecture
• Responsible for working closely with the partnering groups within Sutherland to gather business requirements and ensure that our technical offering satisfies those requirements.
• Responsible for documenting all architectural/engineering documentation and presenting it to other IT peers and Architecture Governance committee for approval and acceptance as a standard service offering.
• Partners with the Business and Service Delivery team to assist with new Program solutions.
• Responsible for Engineering design documentation along with Runbooks for Operations.
• Partners with development/integrations team for platform support when needed.
• Develop monitoring solutions to provide proactive monitoring capabilities for the Infrastructure team and utilize these metrics to continue the evolution of the infrastructure.
• Conduct testing and develop disaster recovery plans to detect faults, minimize malfunctions, and backup systems.
• Provide highest level of technical consultancy to ensure problem resolution is achieved in the shortest possible timeframe
• Manages vendors on escalated issues and projects specific to your area of influence.
• Interacts directly with client related to issues, problems, or overall design.
• Mentors Engineers and IT Solutions Technicians on infrastructure related to area of influence for proper transition to Operations team for platform support.
• Willingness and ability to cross train others in the varying technologies related to area of influence.
• Design and lead the implementation of Infrastructure architecture based on enterprise business requirements and IT Strategies.

Your Qualifications

•  Minimum 5 years’ experience in configuration of Cisco ASA or Firepower Firewalls. Experience with other vendors Palo Alto, Checkpoint is a plus.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in configuration of Cisco routers [ISR4xxx and ASR1xxx] and switches (Catalyst 9500 and Nexus 5K and 9K).
• Thorough technical knowledge in the design, implementation, and operation of TCP/IP networks to include Layers 1-3 routing.
• Load Balancer experience with F5.
• Detailed working knowledge of Cisco Wifi Controllers.
• Detailed understanding of BGP with route filters, prefix-lists and communities.
• Understanding or working knowledge of Python would be beneficial.
• Knowledge or experience working with Confluence collaboration software would be beneficial.
• A detailed working knowledge of the Cisco ACI fabric, experience with Cisco ACI and data center networking.
• A complete working knowledge of Microsoft Office including Microsoft Visio for network designs and diagrams.
• Must have excellent communication skills of the English language (verbal and written)
• Based in Bulgaria or willing to relocate

The Offer

• Excellent base salary potential
• Ability to work from anywhere within Bulgaria
• Senior IT role within the business
• career progression opportunities
• relocation package if not based in Bulgaria
• Great benefits, including food vouchers, private health insurance, and participation in corporate events
• be part of a worldwide renowned organization