Network Engineer

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Maintain and monitor network infrastructure for availability and performance.
• Evaluate new networking technologies and strategies.
• Participate in project planning and delivery activities.
• Work on multiple projects and work streams concurrently and deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Participate in roadmap and architecture planning activities.
• Respond to network and/or voice related incidents, troubleshoot and assess and provide remediation plans.
• Work network related incident and trouble tickets, and on-call rotation.
• Maintain network and voice standard operating procedures, diagrams, and maintenance plans.
• Collaborate with third-party support and service vendors to ensure the network stays operational.

Required Qualifications:

• 2-5​ years of experience in traditional WAN and LAN using Cisco products (routing, switching, wireless) and protocols (such as HSRP, VPC, Port-channels, Spanning Tree, VTP).
• 2-5 years of experience with routing protocol (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), QoS and traffic shaping.
• 2-5 years with SD-WAN technologies.
• 2-5 years in a complex, distributed and multi-OS environment with overlapping technologies.
• 2-5 years experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama, and GlobalProtect VPN client.
• AWS, Azure or other cloud infrastructure experience.
• Excellent customer service-oriented attitude and desire to support end users with issues of varying degrees of complexity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Thorough understanding of troubleshooting complex systems and services from client through network/connectivity and server/storage.
• Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support and guidance.
• Ability and motivation to mentor staff members and share knowledge.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Desire and ability to document configurations in support of a larger team.
• Experience with monitoring software such as Nagios or other network monitoring products.
• Experience with Cisco ACI (Application Centric infrastructure) technologies and Nexus 9K
• Experience with TACACS and Cisco ISE.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in load balancing technologies particularly F5 products, IPAM and Visio.
• Bachelors degree in the IT field or professional certifications from Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5.