Blackstone Talent Group, an award-winning technology consulting and talent agency is seeking a Network Architect to join our Client's team.

· Expert knowledge of Palo Alto Network Firewall, CloudFlare and, Prisma Cloud and Cisco ASA.

· Expert knowledge of F5 Load Balancers LTM. GTM, WAF,and AWS ELB.

· Advanced OSI layer 2 knowledge and practical experience, including various flavors of STP, ARP, QOS, etc.

· Comprehensive knowledge of OSI layer 3 networks and protocols, including broadcast, multicast, anycast concepts, routing, etc.

· Expert knowledge of various routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP) and multi-homing Internet circuit configuration

· Proficient knowledge of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, SSL, etc.)

· Fluency with common network admin and monitoring tools such as Rancid, OpenNMS, Nagios, OpManager, Wireshark, Nmap, Nessus, Netflow, Sflow etc.

· Administrative scripting skills (Perl, UNIX shell scripting)

· Advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS, NX-OS, both Cisco Nexus 1K, 2K, 5K 7K, 9K and non-Nexus series switches, Cisco routers and other Cisco networking gear.

· Working knowledge of data center related technology and collocation environment.

· Advanced knowledge of MPLS network.

· Working knowledge of Nexus 9K and VPC

· Advanced knowledge of Forcepoint configuration

· Advanced knowledge and experience with Routing Protocols (BGP, RIP, OSPF, etc)

· Working knowledge of Palo Alto Global Protect VPN

· Advanced knowledge and hands-on experience on Cisco Network Devices automation

· Working knowledge of Ansible or Python scripting for Network automation

· Deep domain expertise in networking, network security and public/private clouds

· Working knowledge deploying and maintaining wireless networks

· Expert knowledge of AWS services i.e. EC2, ELB, RDS, S3, Route53, VPC, Cloud formation, SSM and Transit gateway

· Working knowledge of deploying and maintaining Microsoft Team PBX VOIP deployments (network side, not telecom), SIP Trunking and Five 9 Content Center

· Working knowledge of deploying and maintaining wireless networks

· Working knowledge of managing network service and similar support providers in a client/vendor relationship

Preferred Skills:

· Advance hands-on experience in Palo Alto firewall, F5 LTM, GTM and WAF

· Advance hands-on experience in AWS cloud

· Extensive hands-on experience in automation with Ansible, CloudFormation or Terraform

· AWS solution architect certification and CCNP certification required

· Deep knowledge in Forcepoint

Blackstone Talent Group is a wholly owned subsidiary of Blackstone Technology Group, a global IT services and software firm that implements technological solutions across commercial industry verticals and the US Federal Government. Blackstone's global talent augmentation practice was founded in 1998. Blackstone Talent Group has offices in San Francisco, Denver, Houston, Colorado Springs, and Washington, DC. We specialize in providing clients the best talent across a variety of industries and sectors.

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