JOB REQUIREMENTS:
- DESIGN:
- Perform design requirements feasibility studies
- Perform vendor recommendation / selection and coordination for hardware testing and installations
- Examine theoretical and implemented designs for deficiencies and facilitate corrections
- BUILD:
- Prepare maintenance plan documentation & change management
- Examine maintenance plans for accuracy
- Script maintenance implementations
- Work in either a lead role or assisting role during maintenance implementations
- IMPROVEMENTS:
- Develop Standard Operating Procedure’s (SOP’s) & Method of Procedure’s (MOP’s)
- Develop network standardization practices
- Document informational content for specialized network designs to be used for training needs
- Present and/or Train on new network typologies, hardware and technologies to internal teams
- Lead Root Cause Analysis sessions to achieve better networking practices
- Determine baseline requirements for our network needs
- Provide code analysis on existing software, IOS testing and software recommendations
- Create network lab mockups for error testing
- Automate repetitive Engineering tasks
- ADDITIONAL:
- Act as 4th level escalations POC for design or other related problems
- Conduct provider testing / deployment of new services
- Monitor capacity and plan for bandwidth additions
- Establish project priority based on business needs
REQUIREMENTS:
- Expert level experience working with all of the following technologies/applications: MPLS, BGP, LDP, QoS, IPv6, OSPF, vPC , STP, DWDM, EVPN, L2VPN, MPLS VPN, L3VPN, FHRP, VLAN, CDP, port-channels, IS-IS, MPLS Inter-AS, VXLAN, DNS, ACL, RADb, Flowspec, RTBH, GitHub, API’s, NFV, Hypervisors, virtual switching
- Multi- vendor experience working with the following platforms: Cisco IOS, ASR 1k (IOS-XE), ASR NCS (IOS-XR), Nexus (NX-OS), Arista (EOS), Junos
- Industry recognized certifications: CCNA required, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP preferred, CCIE (R&S, SP or DC) highly preferred (or equivalent experience), Python PCEP
- Minimum 7-10 years recent experience with network design and build-out of LAN/WAN’s and/or large-scale network retrofits and remediation’s
- Experience working in service provider, datacenter/hosting environment or large-scale enterprise networks.
- Experience researching, evaluating and recommending hardware and/or software solutions supporting large scale deployments and/or remediation’s against the LAN/WAN
- Experience working with 3rd party networking vendors with an understanding of the service/hardware/software portfolios they provide
- Able to identify areas of process improvement and provide input and solution options to streamline work
- Excellent writing, documentation and communication skills possessing the ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical peers.
- Customer service-oriented attitude
- Must be able to work a flexible schedule, 24x7x365 coverage, including holidays and weekends
- Experience with network service monitoring systems (Arbor, Zenoss, Syslog, SolarWinds, Splunk, Kibana, WhatsUpGold, etc…)
- High School diploma or equivalent required; University or College degree preferred in the Computer Science or Network Engineering fields.
HIGHLY DESIRED:
- History designing, coding, implementing, and supporting Infrastructure/Operations-side automation solutions in a corporate environment.
- Experience and familiarity with Python and/or Ruby
- Experience with Linux system administration
- Experience and familiarity with Git, Ansible, Jenkins, Splunk
- Contributor to open source network management software projects
- Experience with various open source OS
- Experience with Lab network modeling
- Experience with troubleshooting and resolution of network issues