Description:
The position is departmental and reports to Manager, Networking Services, objectives are to design, build and support the network infrastructure in the commercial production environment. The network devices consist of routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers. The engineer will follow processes and standards, the responsibility consists of working as an individual or team to implement and coordinate highly complex network deployments.
You Are Great At
- Provide expert-level network design, and understand all aspects and best practices for enterprise data center infrastructure.
- Work diligently to meet project and business timelines for the design and deployment of network infrastructure.
- Work to provide the best solutions for connectivity between data centers and clients. Incumbent will possess experience working with SIP network technologies including the design, support and maintenance.
- Provide day-to-day support of routers, switches & firewalls technologies utilized by Network Operations.
- Plan and recommend designs that could improve the existing network environment.
- Provide analysis of network capacity and health.
- Implement networking best practices and standards throughout the infrastructure.
- Creating documentation (to include Visio diagrams) and communications essential.
- Participate and provide feedback on the day-to-day Network Operations
- Participate in support through the ticketing system.
- Escalate critical issues to the manager in a timely manner.
- Coordinate technical implementation with partners from a business.
- Plan and implement monitoring, limitations by resources and users/departments.
- Ability to work after hours and participate in on-call coverage
- Other duties as assigned.
What It Takes
- An education in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline; or equivalent experience is required.
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working with various network devices
- Minimum 5 years’ experience working with network design best practices
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in general Network Engineering
- Experience working in a team environment
- Excellent analytical, troubleshooting, and communications skills
- Expertise in design, build and support of network infrastructure.
- Network Devices: Routers, Switches, Firewalls, Load Balancers (Multivendor Network Environment)
- Network Skills: TCP/IP, routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IPSec VPN), Layer2/3 switching and VLAN configuration, Firewall security policy.
- Proficient with tools to collect network statistics utilizing protocols (SNMP, NetFlow, etc…)