Senior Network Engineer

Our IT organization isn’t just here to support our business. We’re here to reinvent it – by changing the way our customers, partners and employees interact with our company. To do that, we’re looking for people who bring great ideas and who make our partners’ ideas better. Intellectually curious advisors (not order takers) who focus on outcomes to creatively solve business problems. People who not only embrace change, but who accelerate it.

Responsibilities/Expectations:

• Build and maintain a scalable and cost effective infrastructure that can deliver global VoIP and VaaS capabilities, and HD video collaboration in over 100 locations worldwide.
• Partner with the front office, back office, and devops teams, end users, and business partners to solve complex challenges with innovative ways to connect.
• Utilize network tools that monitor utilization, predict capacity requirements, and manage inventory and configuration.
• Demonstrate a high level of creativity and expertise to develop simple, high impact solutions to improve our communications systems.
• Identify innovative opportunities and drive from idea to business case development.
• Generate WAN and Internet solutions that will help support cloud-based connectivity to Amazon Web Services and other Cloud Platforms.
• Provide technical direction and oversight to network support teams.
• Find and create new methods to increase performance, automation, and scalability.
• Participate on Service Restoration Teams when critical problems arise – 24x7x365.
• Global travel may be required; percentage will vary based on project needs.

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 5 years applicable Network experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field.
• Active Cisco CCNA (minimum) required; CCNP, CCIE or other network or applicable certifications are preferred.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to articulate project level presentations to business sponsors.
• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills to resolve complex problems.
• Ability to draft and document designs and standards.
• Project experience implementing core infrastructure, networking and cloud based services for business teams or consumers
• Operational excellence with knowledge of ITIL practices

Experience:

• 5+ years with WAN/MAN, such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, VRF, CoS, MPLS, EPL
• 5+ years with LAN/WLAN, such as DNS, IP Addressing, QoS, Spanning Tree, Multicast
• 5+ years with Catalyst 65xx switches and modules
• 2+ years with Cisco Nexus line – 2k, 5k, 7k
• 2+ years with F5 BigIP or other LTM/GTM’s
• 2+ years WAN backbone design – Metro E, MPLS
• 2+ years LAN design/architecture – data center and branch office levels
• Advanced problem resolution knowledge of hardware/software platform problems in complex, layered, network infrastructure
• Advanced knowledge of network systems design principles and standards
• Advanced knowledge of packet capture and analysis

Experience Desired:

• Brocade/Foundry (Route/Switch)
• Zebra Wireless
• SolarWinds and/or other Network Management utilities
• SDN/SD-WAN
• Nexus OTV / Layer 2 Extension
• WAN Optimization products/practices
• Security products/practices – ACLs, Firewalls, VPN, etc.
• ITIL and Enterprise Change Management
• Strong technical project management background
• Experience working in a large enterprise environment (1000+ devices)

Behavioral Characteristics:

• Passionate about customer satisfaction and learning about the business
• Ability to work within tight time-lines
• Proactive approach and enthusiasm for problem identification and solving
• Ability to think strategically and suggest creative solutions
• Ability to synthesize complex requirements into simple business practices
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities

• Minimum of 5 years applicable Network experience
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Active Cisco CCNA (minimum) required; CCNP, CCIE, or other network or applicable certifications are preferred