Senior Network Engineer
RESPONSIBILITIES:
. Provides technical support for new and existing technologies in collaboration with other technical and management stakeholders
. Supports the setup of disaster recovery strategy for production environments
. Communicates status and/or concerns regarding technical and project tasks to IT, business, and project management staff
. Identifies and proactively resolves infrastructure/systems issues.
. Identifies and manages risks and issues as a subject matter expert for daily operational support and projects.
. Collaborates with technical staff to administer and support infrastructure environments.
. Acts as primary support owner of contact for all network infrastructure environments, collaborating with other project team members and management to:
o Define and manage the overall support process
o Configuration, deployment, and administration of networking systems including routers, switches, wireless access points, WAN and internet services.
o The individual will perform hands-on support of production LAN/WAN, and take ownership of all network documentation initiatives.
o S/he is responsible for the daily monitoring of the network. S/he reports on network and system capacity utilization and drives initiatives to improve the network
o As the lead network person, s/he is the third level of escalation and should be reachable when there is a network issue that requires senior attention.
o S/he collaborates with Systems Engineering team to design integrate and maintain an environment compliant with internal and external regulations.
Core Competencies:
. Excellent communications skills interacting with technical and business audiences
. Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals.
. Strong knowledge and expertise in local and wide area networking communications.
. Provide management, administration and support of Cisco routers, series 72xx, 28xx, 29xx, 38xx, 39xx.
. Must have considerable depth with routing protocols, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP as well as configuration of policy based routing.
. Provide management, administration and support for Cisco switches series 65xx, 4500, 3500, and 3750.
. Provide management, administration and support for Cisco Aironet series 1300 LWAP
. Provide management, administration and support for Cisco WCS and WLC appliances and modules.
. Must possess strong understanding of switching principles and protocols including, VLAN, STP, VTP, ISL, 802.1Q, Etherchannel.
. Knowledge of WAN and LAN architectures, MPLS, ATM, OC3, T1, E1, DS3, E3 and MPLS.
. Must possess strong understanding of QOS (Cisco autoQOS, Diffserv, WFQ, CBWFQ, CAC and RSVP).
. Must possess strong understanding of wireless technologies and protocols (802.11a, b, g and n).
. Must possess strong understanding of packet analysis tools and be proficient at reading network packet streams
. Must possess good hardware, network operating systems and troubleshooting skills
. Must possess strong understanding of network and system integration principles
. Must be familiar with network events monitoring and log management tools; What's Up Gold, SolarWinds Orion and Wireshark.
. Must be proficient in network best practices based on well known standards
. Provide management and support for internet services and related systems.
. Setup and provide support for VPN communications (IPSEC and SSL)
. Must provide continuous evaluation of the company's network infrastructure and initiate expansion or remediation projects to support growth and mitigate risks
. Must possess good project management and organizational skills necessary to coordinate across diverse IT and non IT groups to deliver projects on time and within budget.
. Working knowledge of Riverbed Steelhead and IP Telephony systems a plus.
. Working knowledge of Cisco ISE, Cisco NAC, Blue Coat Proxy Server, Packetshaper and F5 a plus.
. Working knowledge of Cisco ASA firewalls a plus.
. Willingness to provide oncall support for critical production issues
Additional Skills
. Bachelor's (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science or Information Technology (and/or equivalent experience).
. 5 to 10 years of LAN/WAN experience, design and troubleshooting in a fast pace production environment.
. Cisco certifications:
CCNP tracking towards CCIE preferred.
. Strong analytical and verbal/written communication skills.
. Proven mentorship and leadership abilities.
. Ability to work independently and make appropriate decisions or escalations.
. Ability to align Long term network vision with strategic business direction.
. Some travel may be required, valid Passport preferred.
