Network Architect

Overview

CoStar Group (NASDAQ: CSGP) is a leading global provider of commercial and residential real estate information, analytics, and online marketplaces. Included in the S&P 500 Index and the NASDAQ 100, CoStar Group is on a mission to digitize the world’s real estate, empowering all people to discover properties, insights and connections that improve their businesses and lives.

The Network Architect is responsible for designing, supporting, managing, and maintaining the network infrastructure. Conducts network analysis, modeling, and planning. Serves as architect consultant for all initiatives across the network, including design and infrastructure. The Architect will design complex datacenter, LAN and WAN strategies, coordinate implementation and operation, provide strategic planning, evaluations, and recommendations, and maintain proper record of network design and solutions.

This position is located in Arlington, VA and is in office Monday through Thursday and work from home on Friday.

• Coordinate network strategies, participate in technology selection activities, and work with the business and IT stakeholders to ensure the long‑term network infrastructure technology plan.
• Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and communicate long‑term vision and comprehensive strategic plans for infrastructure and enterprise architecture solutions.
• Serve as a hands‑on technical expert for enterprise‑wide network infrastructure technology.
• Help advance our Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA) initiative.
• Define principles/standards for infrastructure and/or enterprise architecture.
• Lead vendor evaluation and selection of network technology solutions.
• Design and implement new network solutions and improve the efficiency of current networks.
• Install, configure, and support network equipment including firewalls, routers, switches, and WAN performance and monitoring.
• Design and deploy company datacenter, LANs, WANs, and wireless networks, including firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, DNS and DHCP servers, and other hardware.
• Design, implement, and support firewalls, site‑to‑site VPNs, and remote‑access VPNs.
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry.
• Oversee new and existing equipment, hardware, and software upgrades.
• Interact and negotiate with vendors, outsource rs, and contractors to secure network products and services.
• Procure network equipment and manage subcontractors involved with network installation.
• Submit changes to arrange scheduled software and firmware updates keeping equipment patched and to the latest system releases.
• Create complex design artifacts including network layouts and logical/physical designs.
• Ensure proper documentation including design, procedural and lessons learned; maintain and update existing documentation.
• Produce clearly written technical deliverables for both internal and external stakeholders including design diagrams and planning guides.
• Develop and evaluate system/network performance criteria and measurement methods.
• Research current technology and provide ongoing information to management, peers, and network users regarding enhancements and innovations.
• Design and implementation of legacy networks.
• Create, modify and troubleshoot Aruba Clear Pass policies.
• Maintain proper record of network design and solutions.

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited, not‑for‑profit university or college.
• 10+ years of experience providing network systems design, implementation, and support in an enterprise‑class environment with a complex network architecture.
• Cisco routing and switching experience.
• Next Gen firewalls experience.
• Wireless experience.
• Load balancers experience.
• Network design of complex environments.
• Integration of diverse technologies, services and technologies.
• CCDP Design (specialty) OR CCNP Routing & Switching (specialty) OR CCNP Data Center (specialty) OR CCNP Wireless (specialty).

• Palo Alto firewalls experience.
• Aruba wireless experience.
• F5 load balancers experience.
• Infoblox (DNS & DHCP) experience.

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