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Zayo’s 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo’s communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.\nWe are seeking our next Network Architect to join our team! Our ideal candidate is a subject matter expert for multiple technologies relevant to the Zayo Enterprise Networks, which is an MPLS based multi-service backbone supporting layer 2 and layer 3 products and services. You will have experience designing, implementing, and documenting new technologies, as well as providing a top tier of troubleshooting and support for customers.\nThis is a hands-on position. You will build a network, not white papers. You will know when to apply cheap and cheerful versus large-scale, heavy-duty solutions. In your previous role, you will have been responsible for providing guidance with network architecture, Ethernet and IP product design standards and enhancements, production network issues and escalations, and to engage in vendor relationships. You will face both scaling the network and providing additional features necessary for the Zayo Ethernet & IP services that our customers demand. You will be at a vendor level engineering knowledge. You will have and be expected to invent novel and original solutions to difficult problems.\nResponsibilities:\nTake responsibility for the analysis, definition, and continued development of the end-to-end Layer 2 & Layer 3 Architecture for Zayo \nWork with other team members and groups to develop scalable network designs, solutions and policy recommendations \nAnalyze and drive key platform decisions and directions, provide guidance to network planning and operations groups \nSupport Zayo's internal product groups by identifying and presenting their network-impacting requirements to the service activations and the network operations teams \nSupport and lead development of Zayo's growing network infrastructure through published Architecture design documents \nProvide technical guidance for the NCC support teams \nConduct extensive lab testing of new architectures, platforms, inter-networking software \nPromote Zayo’s Enterprise Networks product development \nParticipate in discussions at various Standard Development Organizations such as NANOG, MEF, IETF and other conferences \nQualifications:\nDeep and substantial operational knowledge and experience with carrier-class routers, switches, and packet-optical platforms, such as Juniper, Cisco, Nokia-ALU, Infinera, and Ciena/Cyan\nAbility in representing Zayo at the Standards Development Organizations such as MEF, IEEE, ITU, IETF, ISO, etc. \nExcellent knowledge of the Ethernet, QOS, MPLS/RSVP-TE, L2Circuit/VLL, VPLS-BGP/LDP, L3VPN, G.8032v2, E-OAM, Y.1731, IS-IS, OSPF, MP-BGP, and SNMP protocols \nSkills in building Layer 2 & Layer 3 networks in both metro and long-haul applications. 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