Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Summary

Responsible for delivering on engineering responsibilities pertaining to data center technologies and systems that are compliant with company standards, security policies, and best practices in the data center environments. The technical responsibilities for this position include data center routing, switching, load balancing, firewalls, ACI, VPN and wireless technologies.

Essential Job Duties

• Perform installation, maintenance and upgrade of networks, including routers, switches, firewalls, remote access systems, wireless environments, Zscaler web filtering, and network management and analysis systems.
• Monitor network connectivity and ensure high quality data transmission.
• Provide technical support to various departments and users with regards to LAN / WAN and cloud-based networks
• Serve as a liaison with vendors and other third-party providers.
• Research networking requirements; prepares detailed design and installation plans.
• Conduct internal studies of network performance and traffic analysis.
• Research problems, conduct cable and equipment installations, and evaluate new technologies.
• Meet end user needs by ensuring the uptime, performance, resource availability, security and compliance of the networks managed within established budgets and operational guidelines.
• Determine and diagram the physical layout which illustrates the physical location of and the connections between devices participating on the network.
• Determine and diagram the logical layout which documents the communication protocols (e.g., IP, TCP, etc.) and type of service / application (email, file transfer, web browsing, etc.) for each segment of the network.
• Automate routine tasks using scripting and writing basic computer programs to address more complex systems software configuration and enhancement.
• Assume other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications

Education & Experience

Preferred Qualifications (Include qualifications that are desired but optional) :