Network Architect

HomeAway

(Austin, Texas)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About HomeAway
HomeAway, an Expedia brand, is the world's leader in vacation rentals with sites representing more than 1 million online bookable vacation rental listings. Through HomeAway, owners and property managers offer an extensive selection of vacation homes that provide travelers with memorable experiences and benefits, including more room to relax and added privacy, for less than the cost of traditional hotel accommodations.
Summary
As a Senior Network Architect you will be responsible for the architecture and advanced design of a global network for HomeAway. Be the highly motivated individual to drive technology and infrastructure decisions, from vision to detailed design and work with a team of equally motivated engineers to bring the visions to reality. HomeAway operates a highly converged multi-datacenter hybrid private/public cloud environment, with ideals based on excellence and automation. We operate offices globally with headquarters in Austin. Be part of a high growth company that strives for being the best online marketplace for vacation rentals. ? This position leads the development of overall network strategy and technical standards with participation in the development of fiscal capital and operational budgets. Design and support of local area and wide area networks with key focus areas on high availability and network security. Additional responsibilities include providing oversight and guidance to external partners providing network engineering staff. Current technology environment includes; Cisco Data Center Nexus Architecture, Cisco Routers/Switches and Firewalls for LAN/WAN connectivity, Citrix Netscalers for Load Balancing, Cisco Unified Communication Manager applications for voice, Polycom for video and collaboration, Dell Servers and Cisco Unified Compute System (UCS) for converged fabric platform, VMWare for virtualization, and cloud provider services from Amazon AWS.
Responsibilities
* Champion Network and Infrastructure technical direction, strategies, designs, standards and vision that delivers business results. * Demonstrate proven leadership qualities that will foster a creative team work environment with the ability to build and maintain win – win relationships with all stakeholders. * Develop professional relationships with management and strategic partners. * Investigate complex problems often involving multiple network components. Provide highest level networking support to the enterprise. * Provide technical leadership and oversight to partners providing network engineering functions. * Provide leadership to major networking projects and initiatives. * Collaborate with peer enterprise architects for economic, technical value proposition and trade offs for private (traditional vs SDDC/SDN), hybrid or public cloud implementations and their orchestration platforms.
Ideal Candidate
* Bachelor Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent degree. * 10 years of relevant experience. * Extensive experience with protocols BGP, OSPF, VRF, ACLs, GLBP/HSRP, VPC, QoS, STP, IPSEC, GRE, DMVPN, MPLS, DNS and Load Balancer Technologies (Citrix Netscaler and AWS ELB). * Expert knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol suite. * Capacity Planning and Design. * Heterogeneous OS environment (Linux, Windows). * Extensive understanding of Tier 1 carrier data and voice technologies. * Extensive experience with Cisco networking devices such as switches, routers and firewalls (including the Nexus family). * Excellent problem solving abilities. * Solid understanding of industry-standard network design principles and best practices. * Experience in global network design and operations preferred. * Experience in mentoring and contributing to the development of other network engineers. * Exceptional and Highly proficient written/documentation and verbal communication skills, effective with business and technical audiences. **Preferred experience:** * Amazon AWS (Availability Zone methodologies for High Availability), including EC2, VPC (including networking with Direct Connect and VPN) , IAM/security groups, S3.
Compensation and Working Conditions
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