What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Network Engineer position at CS Solutions, Inc.?
Job Details
Senior Network Engineer
Location: Hybrid (Tue- Thur) onsite in Jersey City, NJ
Term: 12 Months
Job Description/Daily Tasks
- Senior Network Engineer who will be working on migrating our core, wan and server-farm distribution switches globally from Cisco to Arista
- This includes implementing vxlan/evpn, bgp end to end using 4-byte ASN, using automation for configuration templating and open-telemetry for observability and real-time monitoring in Elasticsearch
The candidate that is ideal for this position will have either done or been exposed to the following:
Designing and or implementing vxlan/evpn on Arista (without Cloud Vision Portal)
- EVPN route-types
- VTEP peering s and head-end-replication
- Migrating from Cisco ACI to Arista vxlan/evpn
- L2-Stretch between three datacenters for VM hosts that are SRM protected
Understanding of BGP protocol
- Doing end to end BGP with 4-byte ASN
- Migrating from EIGRP to BGP
- BGP route-tagging and path preferences
Multicast routing which includes PTP
- Segmenting multicast L3 routing from evpn (non stretched vlan)
- Symmetric routing for PTP multicast between vlan s within a vxlan/evpn fabric
Automation and Observability
- Developing config templates for all designs and deployments using inhouse automation tools along with Itential
- Understanding of Python, JinJa, JSON, Ansible
- Understanding of open-telemetry, gnmi, grpc, logstash, Elasticsearch
- Basic understanding of using AI for network automation and observability (not mandatory as we will be implementing this for the first time)
Technical Qualifications:
- 10 years of technical experience in networking and network security.
- Working understanding of open-standard networking protocols and the ability to identify and implement these protocols at an enterprise level.
- Ability to conduct Network Operational analysis to solve issues using network flow analysis, packet captures and event correlation tools.
- Experience building out multi sized datacenters, campuses and branch sites using enterprise architecture principles, industry standards and best practices.
- Network Security experience designing and implementing firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and NAC solutions for data and endpoint protection.
- Experience in multiple technical domains such as server, storage, desktop, security, and network infrastructure.
- Working knowledge implementing Cloud networking solutions with AWS and Azure
- Deep understanding of networking and firewall hardware platforms for Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, F5 and Aruba Silver-Peak
- Experience designing and implementing cloud hosted SaaS solutions for end user remote and branch secure connection.
- Working knowledge on building and implementing a network automation design that automates networking tasks across multiple vendors and platforms.
- Experience designing, implementing, and supporting networks that host trading applications collocated.
Current Environment: Vendors and Protocols:
- Networking: Cisco, Arista, Aruba Silver-Peak (SD-WAN)
- Firewall and SaaS: Palo Alto, Prisma Access
- Load-Balancers and WAFs: F5 Big-IP, Cloud-Flare, A10 Networks (optional)
- DDOS: Cloud-Flare and Radware
- Network Observability: cPacket, Viavi, Wireshark, Thousand-Eyes, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Telegraf, Logstash
- Clouds: AWS, Azure
- Wireless: Cisco and Juniper MIST
- Networking Protocols: BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, Multicast, MLAG, VPC, MSTP, Rapid-PVST , LACP, mutual route redistribution, VXLAN, eVPN
- Programming and Automation: Python, JSON, Jinja, Ansible, YAML, Itential workflow automation
- Micro-Segmentation: Illumio
With Regards,
Dinesh B
CS Solutions, Inc
7525 Mitchell Road, Suite 106, Eden Prairie, MN 55344
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