Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Hybrid (Tue- Thur) onsite in Jersey City, NJ

Duration: Long Term Contract

Job Description:

·        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