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The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for managing, designing and improving client's enterprise network. He or she will assist network architects with design and implementation of network technologies. This role is responsible for senior level network engineering implementation and providing technical principles guidance to peer engineers, proactively taking technology project delivery from 0 to 100% with little to no supervision. General duties include leading buildout of solutions and driving innovation for implementation of new modern technologies in the enterprise network. Partners with management and peer engineers to drive infrastructure modernization projects to completion and provides Tier3 technical support using extensive expertise to take on work assignments the team is engaged in. Strong people skills and the ability to balance/prioritize between multiple tasks and projects are essential. This position does involve both routing and switching as well as network firewall implementation projects for both on-prem and cloud infrastructure.

Design, improve and innovate:

Primary focus is to implement new technologies or changes to existing technologies as identified and designed by the architecture team.

Researches and recommends innovative technologies and approaches for enterprise infrastructure management, upgrades, or improvements.

Utilize and integrate network components such as switches, routers, firewalls, wireless AP/Controllers, SDN fabric components, load balancers, NAC servers and cloud infrastructure network elements.

Proactively identify and implement network improvements to assure the performance, resiliency and redundancy of the network.

Utilizes blueprints to engineer solutions and adhere to enterprise standards (engineering focused, architecture supported).

Take disaster recovery and business continuity plan aspects into consideration for any new technology implementation or change.

Monitor, document and offer proactive support:

Provides ad-hoc support for incidents requiring T3 level resources (engineering/architecture) and knowledge.

Use Microsoft Visio to produce and maintain documentation with regards to implementation of new systems or system changes

Participate in 24x7 on call rotation for SME T3 support requirements as needed.

Maintains service level agreements of departmental metrics, key performance indicators and adhering to strict project timelines.

Maintain/Improve security posture, promptly addressing issues, vulnerabilities and security requirements according to regulatory guidelines (PCIDSS, PII, CIS, NIST)

Collaborate and coach:

Work collaboratively across a variety of business units to implement new technologies.

Coordinate and take lead of assigned projects in all technical and communication aspects.

Collaborate with peer engineers towards achieving common goals in assigned projects.

Coach peer engineers and effectively perform knowledge transfer/cross training activities.

Skills: Position qualifications:

Required:

5-7 years of experience in network design, implementation and documentation of medium-large scale enterprise networks(10,000 users)

5-7 years of experience using cisco enterprise technologies - CCNP Enterprise (R&S) knowledge level required, CCIE nice to have:

Knowledge of Layer2 LAN technologies (STP, VLANs, VTP, LACP)

Knowledge of modern high availability technologies (VPC, SVL, HSRP, VRRP)

Knowledge of routing protocols concepts (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF)

1-2 years of experience in designing, implementing and maintaining data center spine leaf fabrics (Arista/Cisco). Arista ACE L3 certification required.

1-2 years of experience with Cisco DNA Center

1-2 years of Experience with SDWAN technologies(Cisco, Palo Alto ION)

Experience with Cisco Wireless technologies in a large enterprise environment (Cisco WLC, FlexConnect, CAPWAP)

Desirable:

Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining Palo Alto Centrally managed firewall platforms (NGFW Pan OS, Threat Prevention, UserID, Global Protect, HA setup, Prisma Access)

Administering F5 Clusters, Load balancing, SSL decryption policies, DNS Geolocation (LTM, GTM, APM, ASM/Cloud WAF).

Remote Access VPN solutions (Global Protect, F5 BIG-IP Edge)

Certificate management (Venafi), Cryptographic protocols and algorithms, certificate PKI.

Implementing NAC solutions (Forescout/Cisco ISE)

Experience with Infoblox DNS/IPAM

Familiarity with cloud computing principles and experience in designing secure and scalable network solutions for cloud environments.

Automation/scripting experience (Python, Ansible)

Network security protocols, architecture and design principles; intrusion detection, prevention systems, secure socket layer (SSL) protocols, virtual private networks (VPNs),

Network performance optimization, capacity planning and load balancing.

Familiarity with the following monitoring platforms: Microsoft SevOne, SolarWinds, DataDog, Splunk)

Keywords:

Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS or related degree.

7 years of relevant experience in Network or Information Security, or a combination of education, training and experience.

Required: CCNP Enterprise (R&S), Arista ACE L3. Desirable: CCIE, PCNSE.

Security and control certifications preferred (CISSP, CISM, CISA, CRISC)

Skill in

Technical skills to oversee hardware and software systems.

Problem-solving skills, such as troubleshooting network issues and developing effective solutions.

Communication, convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

Satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.

Problem solving using effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

Time management to prioritize and effectively get through project deadlines.

Research, creating, writing, editing and proofreading documentation.

Communication, convey information and ideas through a variety of media to individuals or groups in a manner that engages the audience and helps them understand and retain the message.

Satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas; remains current with developments and trends in areas of expertise.

Ability to

Identify and understand issues, problems and opportunities; compare data from different sources to draw conclusions.

Use effective approaches for choosing a course of action or developing appropriate solutions; recommend or take action that is consistent with available facts, constraints and probable consequences.

Demonstrate a satisfactory level of technical and professional skill or knowledge in position-related areas.

Develop and use collaborative relationships to facilitate the accomplishment of work goals.

Ability and desire to effectively work as a team member in cross functional environment

Strong communication with technical team members and more importantly non-technical team members.

Make internal and external clients and their needs a primary focus of actions; develop and sustain productive client relationships.

Occasionally work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.

Work in a team environment or project room to facilitate collaboration.

Understand basic programming concepts, coding practices, algorithms and data structures.

Work a non-standard shift including nights and/or weekends and/or have on-call responsibilities.