Network Engineer II
Gainesville, GA
Permanent Full Time
Various shifts
3 days onsite
About the Company:
Working with our client means being part of something special: a team invested in you as a person, an employee, and in helping you reach your goals.
Job Summary:
Mid-level position responsible for support, implementation, repair, and maintenance of Network wired, wireless, and security infrastructure/applications, including: routing, switching, IPS/IDS, firewalls, B2B VPN, remote access VPN, network access control, application delivery, WAF, RF management, BLE, RTLS location services, advanced data center overlay technologies, cloud technologies (AWS, GCP, Azure), WAN/SDWAN technologies (including satellite, cellular, and broadband), UPS technologies, and DDI. This position must be able to demonstrate each of the job specific skills and abilities listed.
Minimum Job Qualifications:
- Licensure or other certifications:
- Educational Requirements: Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field required.
- Minimum Experience: Four (4) years of experience supporting critical IT network infrastructure in a highly available 24x7 environment.
Preferred Job Qualifications:
- Preferred Licensure or other certifications: Juniper JNCIS, Cisco CCNA, or similar certification.
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
- Ability to articulate technical expertise to peers and leadership team.
- Ability to lead collaborations with teams to build the best possible solution for customers.
- Moderate understanding of networking concepts and ability to walk through communication flows in extensive detail.
- Passion for identifying innovative approaches to using new or existing technologies to meet current and future business needs.
- Experience mentoring and providing technical guidance to junior engineers and peers.
- Understanding of WAN technologies including SDWAN, satellite, cellular, and broadband connectivity
- Knowledge and experience with network financials and billing
- Ability to work with end users and IT staff to define network requirements for IT systems user experience.
- Moderate experience troubleshooting Networking infrastructure and components, IT systems, and cloud environments.
- Eagerness and willingness to pursue continual education to foster personal growth.
- Moderate experience in helping people communicate through enterprise scale network and network security environments with a focus on Juniper/Mist, SDWAN, and hybrid multi-cloud environment routing and switching, as well as Palo Alto, Forescout, and F5 security tools.
- Moderate experience with routing and switching (BGP, OSPF), network access control, L2/3 overlays (EVPN, VXLAN, ACI, OTV), hybrid multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, GCP), B2B and remote access VPNs, RF environments, RTLS technologies (BLE, UWB), and disaster recovery environments.
Essential Tasks and Responsibilities:
- Participates in on-call rotation.
- Perform complex problem isolation within the network.
- Creates technical documentation for infrastructure solutions.
- Assist with defining technical network engineering policies and procedures.
- Ensure the security of the system by driving standards and policies across all applicable technology towers.
- Monitor Network Services infrastructure capacity and performance to ensure continued, uninterrupted operation of its systems and applications.
- Lead/coordinate new network infrastructure and applications deployment.
- Coordinate and collaborate with vendors on repair and maintenance of various network systems and their components.
- Assist Management with Network Services financial planning, budgeting, and billing.