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Overview
As Network Architect you will be part of ITC Service Availability and ITC Management
teams, providing strong, clear, value objectives, direction, mentoring and expertise to
the Network team and others.
The successful candidate will be an integral part of overseeing and implementing this
strategy and be comfortable owning end-to-end system integration. You will work
closely with Cyber personnel, Network, Telecoms, Backoffice and Application teams to
ensure an efficient, scalable, highly available and secure network infrastructure with
robust operational processes and procedures.
Responsibilities
Assess and optimise current networking solutions, product plans and roadmaps for
architecture & functionality of infrastructure and systems. Provide technical solutions for
the establishment and implementation of high availability network solutions, to
support convergence of voice, data, and multimedia services and cloud application
security architectures.
Develop strategy, technical direction and engineering solutions for enterprise-wide
data networking and data security services supporting key business requirements.
Assist with the development and evaluation of strategic business cases.
Lead the development, design, validation testing, implementation and execution of
Architecture, Engineering and Operational roadmaps for data networking and data
security services and drive efforts to validate that strategic direction is aligned with
business architecture/direction.
Play a key role in the design, specification, implementation and support of Network
& Unified Communications infrastructure and cloud services.
Provides clear and concise recommendations to remediate performance/scaling
bottlenecks
Participate in PoC testing with other teams to ensure that performance expectations
are met before/after rolling out new applications and services.
Provides escalation support for troubleshooting and resolution of all network data
and security issues as required by other infrastructure support teams
Maintain expertise in data network security technologies to ensure that cost-
effective solutions and processes are deployed and aligned with business direction
Mentor other members of the Network Services team on architectural and
engineering best practices by reviewing engineering designs and providing
guidance as required. You will be required to provide technical expertise to teams
to diagnose faults and escalate, as required, under the direction of the
management team.
Establish session for competence transfer to team and support in setting up
relevant online training for the engineers.
Be responsible for ensuring documentation and diagrams of Network Infrastructure
are relevant and maintained.
Ensure network monitoring solutions are in place and are fit for purpose. Evaluate, select
and deploy tool-sets to manage, measure, monitor and report network and systems
characteristics
Work with the teams to adopt best practise processes to meet SLAs’ and proactively take
steps to prevent performance impacts to networking and business functionality.
Coordinate management of network changes and communication within change
control frameworks, with Superintendent and Supervisor positions.
Produce network performance dashboards, analysis and reporting as requested.
Proactively contribute to the development and training plans for team members
Candidate Requirements: