Contractor Versa SD-WAN System Architect
VTekis Consulting LLP is hiring a remote Contractor Versa SD-WAN System Architect. The career level for this job opening is Experienced and is accepting Dallas, TX based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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Roles & Responsibilities
Designing, deploying, and optimizing Versa SD-WAN solutions. Providing technical leadership and collaborating with customers and stakeholders for successful implementations. Analyzing, designing, and developing technical solutions to customer/internal issues. Assisting L3 support and customers in resolving reported product/network problems. Replicating customer issues in a lab environment. Coordinating with OEMs for issue replication and testing possible fixes. Performing hands-on tests to validate customer proof-of-concept setups, network designs, and network deployments using new products/features. Developing, defining, and creating best practices for network infrastructure and SD-WAN design. Setting up infrastructure, creating knowledge articles. Ability to write bash/python scripts. Validating hot fixes and providing recommendations to operations team.
Technical Skills
- Strong understanding of Versa SD-WAN platform architecture, components, and functionality.
- Configuring and provisioning Versa SD-WAN devices and services.
- Proficiency in using Versa Concerto Orchestration lifecycle stages (configuring, deploying, monitoring, managing SD-WAN deployments).
- Understanding Concerto's hierarchical configuration (master profiles, subprofiles, policies, rules).
- Creating, configuring, and managing SD-WAN tenants within Concerto.
- Familiarity with Concerto's API for automation and integration.
- Managing and deploying Versa Secure SD-WAN solutions using Versa Concerto.
- Managing device configurations, software upgrades, and administrative tasks.
- Proficiency in SD-WAN management, monitoring, and troubleshooting tools.
- Identifying and resolving SD-WAN performance issues using Versa Director and Versa Analytics.
- Hands-on experience with IP Networking, Routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, L3VPN, DHCP, DNS, NAT, BFD, Application aware Routing & QoS), switching (VLAN, Trunking, Dot1x, STP, VxLAN).
- Understanding of TCP/IP protocol suite, IPSec VPN/SSL-VPN/NAT/GRE.
- Analyzing traffic and packet flows using packet analyzers (Wireshark, tcpdump).
- Understanding security logs, vulnerabilities, CVEs, threat maps.
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix environment.
- Understanding of virtualization, SaaS, IaaS.
- Managing, supporting, and deploying network infrastructures.
- Diagnosing complex server/network issues.
- Basic hardware and system level troubleshooting.
- Experience with Hybrid Cloud network deployments (AWS, OpenStack, GCP - preferred).