Job Description: They will partner across application, enterprise architecture, infrastructure and security teams in the planning and delivery of all data center networking configurations and advancements to support increased infrastructure hyper-convergence, virtualization, and automation. They are expected to be an expert from a functional perspective with a significant amount of hands-on experience and a non-biased view of technology choices and will be involved at the inception of a project, responsible for design creation and lifecycle management of data center and network solutions. Additionally, they will support Managed Service Provider, Vendor/Manufacturer and Professional Services engagements and escalations. Job Responsibilities: Provide Tier III proactive monitoring/ execution, maintenance, and changes of internal and customer facing network (routing, switching, and optical) infrastructure. This includes but is not limited to troubleshooting data center and network infrastructure, services, IP network connectivity, IP routing (layer 3), LAN switching (layer 2), Wireless LAN infrastructure, WAN Optimization Performance issues to resolution and completely and accurately documenting all work activity in the organizations problem tracking system. Translate business strategies into data center, network, and converged infrastructure strategies. Design and execute for both internally and externally hosted solutions. Establish governing principles for all related co-location, data center and converged infrastructure solutions and manage complex infrastructure and application environments, providing architecture and engineering leadership. Specify, select, implement and operating Lincoln Enterprise data center, network and converged infrastructure technologies including the management and instrumentation platforms. Identify and drive co-location and data center network infrastructure enhancements that will improve the business processes and overall technical capabilities, stability, and performance. Job Requirements: Internet connectivity design, technologies, and solutions Equinix Cloud Exchange/Cloud Fabric, Equinix Network Edge, Amazon Direct Connect, Microsoft ExpressRoute VMWare virtualization including; VXLAN, NSX and NSX-T Cisco IP Network and Network Security Solutions and infrastructure, BGP routing design and implementation Cisco Nexus, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco ACI, MPLS WAN / IP Addressing /SDN /SD-WAN designs and implementations Dell/EMC compute and storage platforms including physical and logical network requirements and features Job Details: Company: Lincoln Financial Group Vacancy Type: Full Time Job Location: Wilmington, NC, US Application Deadline: N/A Apply Here vacanciesforyou.net