Senior Network Architect

About the position

McLane is one of the largest and most stable supply chain services leaders in the United States. We've been at the forefront of delivering retail and restaurant solutions for convenience stores, mass merchants, drug stores, and chain restaurants for over 125 years. Our vision is to be an agile, innovative, and unified supply chain partner that delivers a superior customer experience, improves the lives of our teammates and community, and produces best-in-class returns. Develop and maintain the high-level design plan for the overall logical and technical network architecture. Provide technical leadership and consulting across the organization, from strategic decision making to project planning. Drive organizational commitment for all high-level network infrastructure plans and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement strategic plans to ensure network capacity meets current and future requirements.
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, and training plans for network resource administration.
• Test network performance and provide performance statistics and reports.
• Provide architectural consulting expertise to network staff.
• Research and recommend emerging technologies to enhance network cost-effectiveness and flexibility.
• Develop and communicate plans for investing in network technologies.
• Collaborate with the executive team on network strategies.
• Ensure network services meet service level agreements with business units.
• Create and maintain network configuration and process documentation.
• Plan and coordinate the installation of network devices and appliances.
• Design LANs, WANs, VMs, virtual networks, and wireless networks.
• Interact with vendors to secure network products and services.
• Recommend improvements to the existing systems architecture.
• Review network design projects for compliance with standards.
• Communicate network activities with executives and stakeholders.
• Define business requirements for network development with end users and senior management.
• Manage the design, maintenance, and evaluation of all network infrastructures.
• Conduct feasibility studies for network upgrade projects.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, computer engineering, system analysis, or a related field. Four additional years of related experience may be considered in lieu of degree.
• Cisco CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure or Data Center certification.
• Additional certifications aligned with Network Architecture preferred.
• Ten or more years of experience in strategic network architectural design and operational excellence.
• Ten or more years of experience designing enterprise-wide LANs, WANs, WLANs, VPNs, VMs, and virtual networks.
• Excellent knowledge of current protocols and standards, including BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IPSEC, multi-protocol BGP, and RADIUS.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, Terraform, etc.
• Experience with Cisco ACI (multi-site) design, implementation, automation, and architecture.
• Experience with SDWAN design and implementation (Aruba preferred).
• Experience with Nexus Dashboard Orchestrator and Cisco Intersight.
• Experience with firewalls, IPS, network access control, and load balancers.
• Experience with multi-cloud network architecture design, implementation, and workload migrations.
• Experience designing networks for MACH architecture.
• Experience with edge network design for distributed workloads.
• Excellent architecture and technical support documentation skills.
• Strong interpersonal, written, and oral communication skills.
• Highly self-motivated and directed with keen attention to detail.

Benefits

• Day 1 Benefits: medical, dental, and vision insurance, FSA/HSA, and company-paid life insurance
• Paid holidays, earn vacation time, and sick leave accrual from day one.
• 401(k) Profit Sharing Plan after 90 days.
• Additional benefits: pet insurance, maternity/paternity leave, employee assistance programs, discount programs, tuition reimbursement program, and more!