Ropes & Gray LLP · 2 days ago
Network Architect
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$135K/yr - $205K/yr
7+ years expRopes & Gray is a preeminent global law firm known for its excellence in various legal practices. The Network Architect role focuses on designing and supporting the firm's data, wireless, video, and VOIP networks, ensuring secure and operationally sound solutions while collaborating with IT stakeholders.
ConsultingLaw EnforcementLegal
Responsibilities
Contributes to the strategic design and architecture of the firm's data network environment
Contributes to the design, deployment, and maintenance of various network systems and components including: routers, switches, internet services, wide area network services, wireless networks, VPNs, firewalls, video networks and related infrastructure, VoIP network and related infrastructure, Security, and performance management and monitoring systems
Participate in physical build planning and design for new spaces. Scope, recommend, design, plan, oversee and test inter-rack and station cabling for office, MDF, IDF and datacenter builds and refreshes
Configure networks to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes
Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend purchase, development, or enhancement of network hardware and software
Recommends performance standards, processes, policies, and procedures
Provide senior level technical support for network elements and systems
Design and provide for the monitoring of network performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed
Collaborate with executive management and department leaders to assess near and long-term network capacity needs
Create and maintain documentation as it relates to network architecture and network configuration
Assures knowledge transfer for new systems
Coordinate with other members of the firm for business continuity and disaster recovery programs
Performs other work-related duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience
7+ years experience in network field
Proven experience and success with planning, installing and managing networks including LAN, MAN, WAN, Optical Networking, Silverpeak SDWAN Optimizers, F5 Load Balancers, iRules, F5 Global Traffic Manager, Infoblox/BloxOne, Illumio, Checkpoint firewalls, Checkpoint Identity Collector, VPN, DMZ, IDS/IPS, Zscaler Web Proxy, content filter, NAC and Cisco ISE, Ciena DWDM, 100 Gig optics, DNS Traffic Control, Cisco ACI & NXOS, SDN, network segmentation, Cisco Catalyst center, Cisco CLI, ACL management, SNMP MIB's, Aruba wireless controllers and AP's, SSL certificate creation and management, DNS Domain registration, Citrix Netscaler, VMware NSX, network taps, Extrahop
Azure networking solutions including Virtual Network Peering, VPN Gateway, and ExpressRoute to support SaaS and cloud-based initiatives
Familiarity with IaC (infrastructure as code), ex. Ansible, Terraform, Azure Resource Manager, Chef
Familiarity with EntraID, Active Directory, LDAP, PKI, SAML, OAUTH, SSO
Network Monitoring and Tools (OpenView, Spectrum, NetScout, Gigamon, APCON, NetMRI, MRTG, CACTI, Solarwinds, SmokePing, NetFlow, Tufin, Splunk and syslog)
Proven experience with network capacity planning, security principles, and general network management best practices and optimizations for performance
Strong hands-on knowledge of LAN/WAN/MAN protocols and technologies including Carrier Ethernet, T1, DS3, optical, DWDM, NTP, Spanning Tree, VLAN's, 802.1q, VFR, LFA, , SNMP v1-v3, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VPLS, SIP, H.323, QoS, Multicast, Anycast, 802.1x, Radius, TACACS+, SSH, NAC, DHCP, DNS, F5 Wide-IP, VRRP, HSRP, GLBP, PBR, VPC, LACP, SGT, SGACL, SXP, VxLAN, OTP, LISP, SPAN, WCCP, PfR, IPSLA, iWAN, VPN, SIP, IPSec, WiFi 6, 6E, 7
Strong working knowledge of Cisco routers and switches (Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, 2K, 1K; Catalyst 9410, 9300; ISR-4451, 8300)
Experience with fiberoptic cabling, patching, cleaning, and troubleshooting
Strong hands-on knowledge of DNS record creation: A, CNAME, TXT, SRV, NS and PTR
Experience with DNS SPF, DMARC and DKIM records
Racking and patching appliances and servers
Rack power management and monitoring, configuring managed PDUs
Experience with console servers for out-of-band serial access
Experience with DevOps, automating and scripting
Data Center, server room and IDF design; station cabling layout design and implementation; UPS management and monitoring and environmental monitoring systems
Strong verbal and interpersonal skills
Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
Strong customer service skills
Strong team skills
Strong leadership skills
Strong project management skills
Experience working in a multi-office environment
Preferred
Preferred certifications: CCNA, CCNP, CCDE, CCDA, CCSP
Benefits
Comprehensive health and well-being benefits
Personal and professional development
Career growth opportunities
Collegial and supportive culture
Discretionary bonus based on performance
Company
Ropes & Gray LLP
Ropes & Gray, a preeminent, global law firm, has been ranked in the top-three on The American Lawyer's prestigious "A-List" for eight consecutive years and listed on Law.com’s UK “A-List” for three years in a row.
1001-5000 employees
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