What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Engineer - Route/Switch/Wireless position at Western Alliance Bancorporation?
Job Title:
Principal Engineer - Route/Switch/WirelessLocation:
Block 23What you'll do:
As a Principal Engineer I you'll provide SME expertise in your respective domain as well as adjacent domains to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable. You'll identify development and support needs as well as take on large and complex design responsibilities supporting project tasks. You'll also engage with project and business sponsors refining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions. As a Principal Engineer I, you also facilitate dialogue and activities, and work to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for IT audiences. In this role, you'll also develop the technical skills of one more junior engineers.- Team leads a small group of engineers, developing the engineering roadmap, defining workstreams, and delegation
- Plan, design, deploy and mature network infrastructure, services, and processes to meet business needs
- Deliver on-target KPIs for service availability, capacity, and performance management
- Provide escalation-level support to our incident, problem, and change management processes
- Collaborate with IT Governance during assessments and audits, providing evidence to support the control framework
- Procure and evaluate bleeding-edge technology solutions and present recommendations
- Lead complex engineering projects e.g., vendor-to-vendor migrations, mergers, and acquisitions
- Drive standardization, reduce needless complexity, challenge convention
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation (HLDs/LLDs/SOPs/KBs)
- Ongoing proactive maintenance of network infrastructure & services
- Participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and maturity
- Participation in operational support 24x7 on-call rotation as required
- Other duties as assigned
What you'll need:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology is required, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience
- 8 years overall IT engineering industry experience with evidence of ongoing personal development
- Strong leadership, organization, and mentorship skills with demonstratable experience
- Professional-level certifications with Cisco and/or other closely related technologies. CCIE level skills and experience is preferred
- SME-level experience supporting the operation of mission-critical networks within finance, healthcare, or other highly regulated areas (HIPPA, PCI, SOX, CIS, NIST, ISO/IEC, etc.)
- SME-level experience participating in solution design and project delivery
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, OSI model, application flow analysis, IPv4 subnetting, IP routing, and switching protocols
- In-depth experience with Cisco SDWAN technologies
- In-depth experience with Dynamic Routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF and EIGRP
- In-depth experience with Cisco Catalyst Center (DNA Center)
- In-depth experience with designing and supporting highly available Wireless LANs
- In-depth experience with Cisco Data Center Switch technologies such as Nexus, UCS Fabric Interconnect, VPC, OTV, etc...
- In-depth experience with enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP address management
- Hands-on experience deploying virtual infrastructure within Microsoft Azure or AWS public clouds
- Scripting experience in Perl, Python, or PowerShell a plus
- Extensive experience operating within an ITIL ITSM organization with a background using ServiceNow
- Extensive experience with diagramming software such as Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart
- Experience using tools such as SolarWinds, Netbrain, LiveAction, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana
- Excellent communication skills, directly interfacing IT leadership, business stakeholders and technical teams
Benefits you'll love:
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!
About the company:
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR@westernalliancebank.com or call 602-386-2488. When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.
Western Alliance Bancorporation
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email recruiter@westernalliancebank.com or call (602) 797-3662.
