What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Engineer position at Vaco by Highspring?
- Strong experience in routing & switching, Wi-Fi to support our datacenter and campus networks
- Provide day to day operational and project support Arista LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure
- Reviews network designs for an EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment, upgrades, enhancements or improvements as required
- Develop and maintain a network infrastructure monitoring and alerting strategy
- Support interoperability between Arista and other networking solutions including Cisco and Palo Alto
- Assist with configuration buildouts including creating network provisioning using industry standard automation toolsets
- Continuously improving processes and documentation for network assets
- Participate in troubleshooting incidents and coordinate with vendor support as required
- Build and maintain partnership with external vendors, including Arista TAC
- Translate complex business requirements and objectives into leaf-spine network solutions
- Continues technology, security, and networking training to maintain expertise
- Supporting business services by completing requests and resolving incidents in documented SLA timings; as well as following all change management processes
- Ensuring security solutions, policies, and procedures are sufficient to meet and respond to threats to our network infrastructure
- Other duties as assigned
Required Skills and Experience:
- Network Industry Certification preferred
- Experience with Arista (preferably) or other commercial Wi-Fi platform
- 10 years' working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks.
- Working knowledge of leaf-spine architectures
- Advanced knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, QoS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and 802.1X
- Centralized network management automation mindset is highly desired
- Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills
- Excellent written skills and desire to document network infrastructures
- Experience with working in an ITIL or similar service operational environment
- Arista CloudVision experience
- Palo Alto firewall experience
- Citrix NetScaler or load balancing experience
- Zscaler Secure Private Access experience
- Nutanix Flow or virtual machine micro-segmentation experience preferred
- Microsoft Azure networking knowledge a plus
- Experience working with a Network Access Control solution
Vaco by Highspring values a diverse workplace and strongly encourages women, people of color, LGBTQ individuals, people with disabilities, members of ethnic minorities, foreign-born residents, and veterans to apply.
Vaco by Highspring is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race (including but not limited to traits historically associated with race such as hair texture and hair style), color, sex (includes pregnancy or related conditions), religion or creed, national origin, citizenship, age, disability, status as a veteran, union membership, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, marital status, political affiliation, or any other protected characteristics as required by federal, state or local law.
Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries are committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, Vaco by Highspring and its parents, affiliates, and subsidiaries will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact HR@vaco.com .
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Determining compensation for this role (and others) at Vaco by Highspring depends upon a wide array of factors including but not limited to:
- the individual's skill sets, experience and training;
- licensure and certification requirements;
- office location and other geographic considerations;
- other business and organizational needs.
With that said, as required by local law, Vaco by Highspring believes that the following salary range referenced above reasonably estimates the base compensation for an individual hired into this position in geographies that require salary range disclosure. The individual may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses.
