Sr Network Engineer

BASIC REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• Minimum 5 years of enterprise network engineering experience; Cisco CCNP certification.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco routing and switching, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, STP, HSRP, TCP/IP, and Cisco IOS/IOS-XE.
• Experience with Cisco SD-WAN (Viptela), including routing policies, application-aware routing, and WAN transport failover.
• Experience supporting large-scale WAN environments utilizing MPLS, broadband, DIA, and cellular/LTE/5G connectivity.
• Experience with cloud networking, preferably GCP, including VPCs, Cloud Router, VPNs, and hybrid connectivity.
• Experience with enterprise wireless technologies, preferably Cisco Meraki.
• Knowledge of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM solutions such as BlueCat.
• Experience with network monitoring and troubleshooting tools such as SolarWinds, ThousandEyes, Wireshark, and packet captures.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to independently diagnose complex network and application performance issues.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• DESIGN, IMPLEMENT, AND SUPPORT ENTERPRISE LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, and cloud network infrastructure, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and performance.
• DESIGN, PLAN AND IMPLEMENT NETWORK RELATED CHANGES THAT INCLUDE ROUTING, MONITORING/ ALERTING, SOME LEVEL OF AUTOMATION.
• Configure and troubleshoot Cisco routing and switching technologies, including BGP, OSPF, VLANs, STP, HSRP, QoS, and Layer 2/Layer 3 protocols.
• Provide advanced troubleshooting and escalation support for complex network and application performance issues.
• Monitor network performance, perform capacity planning, and proactively identify opportunities to improve network availability and resiliency.
• Support network infrastructure upgrades, lifecycle management, security vulnerability remediation, and technology refresh initiatives.
• Collaborate with security, cloud, infrastructure, voice, and application teams to deliver business initiatives and resolve technical issues.
• Develop and utilize automation to improve operational efficiency, accuracy, and consistency.
• Maintain network architecture documentation, configuration standards, and operational procedures.
• Provide technical leadership, mentor junior engineers, and contribute to network architecture and technology roadmaps.
• Coordinate with technology vendors and service providers to ensure network availability and performance.
• Follow ITIL change, incident, and problem management processes; participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and occasional travel.

Other Requirements / Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Application Delivery Controllers such as Citrix NetScaler, F5, or A10.
• Knowledge of network automation technologies, including Python, Ansible, Terraform, and APIs.
• Familiarity with network security, firewalls, VPNs, ACLs, and segmentation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, CDN services, and hybrid cloud networking.
• Familiarity with VMware, Nutanix, Linux, Windows Server, and Cisco voice technologies.
• Strong communication, organizational, and project management skills with demonstrated ability to mentor other engineers.