Collaborating with stakeholders to design, deploy, maintain, and monitor live services and the underlying network infrastructure.
Leading the creation of advanced network architectures and designs within a team of technical leads.
Proactively evaluate and assess new networking technologies to enhance infrastructure capabilities.
Develop technical solutions and establish standards, policies, and procedures for network infrastructure.
Managing cloud network resources, application flows, and security elements as code, integrated into the CI/CD pipeline.
Automating workloads using a variety of tools and services, including native command line tools like Microsoft Azure and AWS.
Applying a risk-based approach to implementing security policies to ensure GDPR and InfoSec compliance.
Collaborating with the security team to implement best practices for cloud network security.
Engaging in Agile Scrum standups with platform and development teams, supporting software deployment to secure cloud networks.
Implementing monitoring solutions for network infrastructure and services across multiple clouds, utilizing open-source dashboarding technologies like Graphana.
Acting as the primary interface to third-party network and security vendors on behalf of Grouper.

Experience or Certification: Possess experience or certification in Azure Web Application Firewall, Checkpoint Next Generation Firewall, NGINX/F5 API Management & NGINX App Protect Web Application Firewall.
IT Governance and Compliance: Experience with IT governance standards and compliance frameworks such as ITIL, PCI, and SOC.
Network Architecture: Extensive experience in architecting networks to enable a flexible and secure environment for operating and maintaining a fleet of Microservice APIs.
Scripting Skills: Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, Ansible, Azure DevOps, or Terraform for automating routine tasks.
Tool Proficiency: Experience with Atlassian JIRA, Bitbucket, and Confluence for project management, version control, and documentation.
Linux Shell Scripting: Proficiency in Linux shell scripting for automation and system administration tasks.
Git Repository Management: Experience in working with git repositories for version control and collaborative development.
Load Balancer Design: Extensive experience with standard load balancer design, SSL termination, and overall application/solution design.
Certifications: Desired certifications or equivalent experience in CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE, CISSP, or other relevant security certifications.
Advanced Traffic Management: Demonstrated knowledge of advanced layer 4 to 7 traffic management, including authentication and authorization flows, JWT/OIDC, and integration with 3rd party identity providers.

Principal Network Architect

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