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Lead Network Architect

The Meet Group, Inc. owns and operates a social network for meeting new people on the Web and on mobile platforms in the United States.

Lead Network Engineer with high technical aptitude, specializing in planning, implementing, and operating Enterprise and Data Center network infrastructure. Collaborative team player; excellent business acumen and deep understanding of aligning infrastructure design with business needs and application development requirements. Products and Technologies Hands-on experience with and expert-level knowledge of: - Design/Deployment of Datacenter, Central Site, Branch Site, Remote workers, Multi-Site VPN - Nexus 55xx / 22xx Switches & Fabric Extenders - 3900 / 2900 ISR G2 Routers - Catalyst 37xx / 35xx / 29xx Series Switches - ASA firewalls - VMware vSphere v4 / v5 (vCenter / ESXi), VMware View 4.5+ - Riverbed Steelhead and Steelhead Mobile Appliances - Coyotepoint Load Balancers - QoS Policy (VoIP & Video) - Commonly deployed protocols (BGP, BFD, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, EIGRP, OSPF, IPSec, IS-IS, DMVPN, etc.) Hands-on experience with functional knowledge of: - Centos 5/6 - Zabbix, Sitescope - PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, XML, SOAP, HTML - Polycom videoconferencing - Shoretel and Avaya (IP Office) telephony - Equallogic and Dell MD Series iSCSI storage arrays - Microsoft IIS 7.0+, Active Directory 2008/2012 Areas of Interest: - Automation and Configuration Management - SDN - Data Center Interconnects - Openstack Specialties: Network Design and Implementation, Datacenter Virtualization and Systems Engineering, Technical Documentation, Strategic Planning