Enterprise Network Architect

About the job

At Oshkosh, we build, serve and protect people and communities around the world by designing and manufacturing some of the toughest specialty trucks and access equipment. We employ over 15,000 team members all united by a common purpose. Our engineering and product innovation help keep soldiers and firefighters safe, is critical in building and keeping communities clean and helps people do their jobs every day.

THE ROLE

The Enterprise Network Architect is a technical role in the IT organization that develops, maintains, assures, and evolves the network and connectivity domain architectures and solutions across the Oshkosh global enterprise. This individual is responsible for conceiving, proposing, planning, maintaining, enhancing, ensuring business alignment with, and growing their domain architecture. The role is necessary to ensure their architecture domain is neither over- nor under- built when compared with current and future needs of the commercial enterprise.

How You Make An Impact

These duties are not meant to be all-inclusive and other duties may be assigned.

• Envision, plan, and execute projects that enhance global network connectivity solutions that involve the following existing technologies as well as new designs:
  • Enterprise route, switch, & wireless infrastructure
  • Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN)
  • WAN, LAN & MAN topologies with a diverse carrier portfolio
  • Data Center networking
  • Security infrastructure, including Palo Alto Firewalls, GlobalProtect, and Panorama
  • Load Balancing, including F5 BIG-IP
  • Public Cloud connectivity, including Azure ExpressRoute
  • Campus Wiring
  • Other technologies related to network & connectivity, such as event & performance monitoring, audit & asset management tools, and
• Oversee research into industry standards, architectural options, features, and functionality; and creating use cases, models, design structures/patterns; and conducting planning meetings.
• Establishes and maintains a current state representation and future roadmap of their domain and their responsible area.
• Oversee the research, design and advocate for new technologies, architectures, and products that will enable the business to operate “better-cheaper-faster-safer”.
• Serve as a most senior subject matter expert in network and connectivity solutions.
• Ensure project teams comply with current standards, policies, industry regulations, and best practices.
• Responsible for ensuring solutions align to the organization’s ability to build and maintain.
• Provide high level technical leadership to project and operations teams, as needed, by acting as a consultant on fit-for-use analysis, build-vs-buy, and solution-optioning/selection/decision activities.
• Responsible for authoring standards, as needed, for ratification by IT leadership.
• Work closely with other enterprise architects, subject matter experts, and IT personnel to ensure adequate security solutions are in place throughout all IT systems to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, while meeting business objectives and regulatory requirements.
• Support high complexity incidents, requests, and maintenance as an escalation point for operational teams.

What You Need

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science or equivalent.
• Eight (8) or more years of experience architecting network and connectivity solutions in a large, global enterprise.
• Experience with network and security solutions in a public cloud environment (Azure / AWS)
• Ability to interact with company personnel, builds strong relationships at all levels and across all business units and organizations, and understands business imperatives.
• Strong understanding of the business impact of IT tools, technologies, and policies.
• Ability to travel up to 25%.

What Makes You Stand Out

• Graduate degree in Information Systems, Management or equivalent.
• Relevant industry recognized certifications (CCIE, CISSP, PMP, etc.)
• Experience with consensus building to bring together opposing views and steering debates toward practical solutions and paths forward.
• Experience with scripting and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, etc.
• Information Technology experience within the manufacturing industry.
• USA100

Oshkosh is committed to working with and offering reasonable accommodation to job applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance or an accommodation due to disability for any part of the employment process, please contact us at: 920-502-3009 or [email protected].

Oshkosh Corporation is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. This company will provide equal opportunity to all individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status. Information collected regarding categories as provided by law will in no way affect the decision regarding an employment application.

Oshkosh Corporation will not discharge or in any manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with Oshkosh Corporation’s legal duty to furnish information.

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