What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Network Engineer position at Velocity Tech Inc?
Job Description:
Project Description: This would be a supplemental engineer to help implement, troubleshoot, and automate common network tasks.
Position Summary/Job Description: Sr network engineer:
• Deploying and maintaining high-performance and scalable network solutions for data centers, including core switches, edge routers, load balancers, and other related network equipment.
• Implement network automation solutions to streamline repetitive tasks such as configuration management, provisioning, and monitoring of data center networks.
• Work with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ansible) to develop solutions that simplify network management and increase operational efficiency.
• Assist in capacity planning, evaluating network performance, and identifying areas for improvement to scale the data center network.
• Stay current with emerging technologies in data center networking, including SDN, and network automation, and evaluate how they can be implemented to enhance network operations.
• Leads and effectively triages complex issues across systems in many environments, primarily in the data center. Takes the lead in root cause analysis.
• Active participant in planning activities and contributes to strategic planning.
• Assisting staff/principal engineers
Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?
• Cisco routing/switching – 5 years experience
• Routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF) – 5 years experience
• F5 load balancing – 3 years experience
• Infoblox DNS/DHCP – 3 years experience
• Automation (CI/CD pipelines, ansible, Terraform) – 3 years experience
