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Job Responsibilities:
- We are working directly with the customers to understand their business requirements and ensure networking projects are accurately designed and implemented.
- We identify, design and implement applying the current and latest networking solutions available.
- Write and maintain software to address sophisticated network management and monitoring tasks, including:
- We deploy and audit configuration of network devices
- We monitor network health, including metrics collection, visualization, and alerting
- We track network utilization over time to assist capacity management models
- Define and meter the availability of existing and future network solutions, ensuring they meet or exceed the needs of the business
- Identify and deliver solutions that reduce operational impact to business and enable them with scalable, resilient, and cost optimized network infrastructure.
- Investigate problems that involve networking technologies to resolve customer issues, identify root causes, document and develop corrective actions.
- Be part of the team that design, implements, improves, and supports a global network environment to include routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers.
- Performs problem isolation and resolution of network problems
- Act as tier 2 escalation contact for network issues.
- Find opportunities to improve the corporate network by implementing the network standards that have been established by the Global Networking Services team.
- Collaborating with the network architects and deployment teams on business imperative projects and initiatives to optimize the enterprise network.
- Ensuring that all network environments are well documented.
- Participating in the on-call rotation with other engineers to ensure support coverage for the global enterprise network.
- Mentoring junior members of the group in order to build a stronger organization.
- Handling and supervising the Service Now work queue to address customer requests within the established service level agreements.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or other technical field is desired, though 5+ years of direct and applicable professional experience in configuring, deploying, running and fixing routers and switches in an enterprise environment will be considered for a substitution.
- Consistent record with configuring, deploying, handling, and solving issues on network devices in a major corporate environment.
- Excellent knowledge of IT general practices and methods with specialised knowledge in multiple technical disciplines such as, cloud, telecommunications, network & automation.
- 3-5 years practical meaningful experience in large-scale networking engineering and operations.
- Sophisticated knowledge of WAN routing (BGP), traffic engineering, QoS, telemetry, and segmentation
- Good level of understanding of dynamic routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF.
- Experience with Load Balancers, Firewalls, WAN Optimization, and/or VPN Concentrators is a plus
- Demonstrate experience with networking technologies within large enterprise networks
- Detailed knowledge of Cisco, Arista or similar routing and switching platform.
- Hands on experience with Fortinet, Pulse Secure & F5 products and services is considered as a plus
- Good knowledge of Networking and Wireless standards.
- Experience with Cisco & Meraki wireless solutions.
- Understanding and knowledge of network segmentation.
- Experience with SD-WAN management & solving issues is an extra
- Knowledge, Skills, Abilities
- Telco: WAN connectivity, LAN connectivity, Fixed Wireless, Colocation services,
- OSS/BSS: Service Now, Jira, TEM systems.
- Network: Networking, SD-WAN, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, VPN, Firewalls, Router, Switch, Load Balancer.
- Product: Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, F5, Silver Peak/Velo Cloud, Arista.
- Automation: Ansible, Terraform, or Python.