The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the ongoing design, maintenance, and support of all aspects of the company s Network Infrastructure. The successful candidate will lead efforts with other members of the IT infrastructure and operations teams to delivery reliable network services.
Job Responsibilities:
Network Operations and Support
- Install, configure, and maintain LAN/WAN and Data Center Infrastructure Components
- Create reusable configuration templates to standardize the deployment of network devices and features
- Maintain disaster recovery network infrastructure in AWS and participate in annual DR Exercise
- Evaluates published security advisories and remediate security vulnerabilities consistent with Patch Management Program
- Perform network device OS upgrades and system patching to maintain appropriate security, vendor support, and feature sets
- Monitor ticketing queues and respond to outstanding requests and other assigned work orders
- Acts as primary technical resource on system implementation projects
Monitoring and Reporting
- Generate usage, availability, and performance reports for management consumption
- Generate and analyze usage reports for capacity planning
- Availability and health monitoring for network infrastructure components
- Maintain network monitoring tools to optimize monitoring capabilities
Effectively Troubleshoot and Resolve Network Related Issues
- Act as an escalation point for Service Desk and other level 1 support groups to troubleshoot network related issues.
- Provide 24x7 off hours support as a part of a rotating on call schedule to respond to fault alarms and escalation from level 1 support teams
- Capture and analyze network packet traces to support troubleshooting efforts
- Interface with third-party support and service vendors when needed to ensure network remains operational at all times
Network Design
- Leads and participates in technical PoCs efforts to evaluate network technologies and platforms and make technology recommendation based on final results
- Develop and present network design recommendations base on common network design principles
- Integrated network security into infrastructure design architectures
- Acts as primary technical contact on network system implementation projects
- Develop configuration templates to help standardize network device configurations
- Create artifacts such as network design documents, Visio diagrams, Standard Operating Procedures
Required Skills & Experience:
- Must demonstrate advanced knowledge of network operating system CLIs such as Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS
- Ability to develop and implement QoS policies to support critical and latency sensitive applications across the enterprise
- Ability to create reusable configurations to deploy common network components using automation tools such as python or terraform
- Ability to use diagraming tools to effectively capture network designs and configurations
- Ability to manage cloud networking infrastructure in AWS and Azure
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues