AT&T

Principal Solution Architect

AT&T

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Chantilly • New Jersey, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States

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Salary

💰 $158,200 - $273,400 per year

Job Level

Lead

Tech Stack

CloudSwitchingTCP/IP

About the role

  • Senior SD-WAN architect will design, engineer, test, and implement SD-WAN solutions based on best practice approaches to address requirements and solve problems for AT&T federal customers.
  • Specify the Components and Their Interactions: Define high-level solutions with customers, stakeholders, and development teams. Determine primary components and subsystems, analyzing technical trade-offs. Identify interfaces and collaborations, defining higher-level functional and non-functional requirements (NFRs).
  • Define a Shared Technical and Architectural Vision: Create a unified technical and architectural vision for the entire solution, ensuring alignment rather than focusing on specific components.
  • Align Architectural Direction: Collaborate with portfolio stakeholders, customers, Enterprise Architects, System Engineers, and development teams to align the architectural direction.
  • Establish Implementation Strategy and Technical Foundation: Develop an incremental implementation strategy and technical foundation for the architectural runway, preserving architectural flexibility through abstraction and generalization.
  • Provide 24x7 Tier 3/4 troubleshooting expertise for all network event escalations (Executive, Enterprise Customer, Product Management, Service Management, Tier 2, and Account Teams Escalations). Quickly troubleshooting complex IP/MPLS network problems is a fundamental requirement, requires in-depth knowledge of IP and MPLS protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, MPLS); strong analytical ability and problem-solving skills; and the ability to represent the LCM organization on resolution and remediation issues to senior executives.
  • Contribute high-level, strategic solutions with significant positive impact to the Operations organization. Must be a technical leader and hands-on technology expert and able to work with all the organizations responsible for developing, building, and managing the IP/MPLS network. Must be able to communicate highly technical information to Technology Operations and Customer Support organizations.

Requirements

  • Master's degree (MS/MA) desired in Computer Science, Engineering, Information technology, or related fields
  • 10 years experience in the Information Technology industry desired or equivalent knowledge, with at least 5 years hands-on, expert level technical expertise required on routing and switching with Cisco platforms, and particularly in Cisco SD-WAN.
  • Experience with large scale TCP/IP networks and overlay/underlay networking technologies. (e.g., DMVPN/IPSec, SD-WAN, BGP, EIGRP, GRE/IPIP tunnels, VRF’s)
  • Hands on Cisco SD-WAN design, documentation, and implementation
  • Cloud environments and the integration of network solutions with cloud environments
  • Hands-on experience with networking configurations and scripting protocols for large-scale network changes and large-scale migration projects.
  • Certification is required in some areas (CCNP or higher preferred)
Benefits
  • Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
  • 401(k) plan
  • Tuition reimbursement program
  • Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
  • Paid Parental Leave
  • Paid Caregiver Leave
  • Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
  • Adoption Reimbursement
  • Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
  • Life and Accidental Death Insurance
  • Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
  • Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
  • Extensive employee wellness programs
  • Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone

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Hard skills
SD-WANroutingswitchingCisco platformsTCP/IPBGPEIGRPnetwork configurationsscripting protocolscloud integration
Soft skills
analytical abilityproblem-solvingcommunicationcollaborationleadership
Certifications
CCNP