Provide a high level of technical expertise to ensure the uptime and maintenance of critical networking systems.
Take ownership of highly complex network issues and ensure they are resolved and/or successfully documented.
Accept ownership through to the resolution of issues escalated by other Network Engineers.
Create training and mentoring opportunities for other engineers.
Involve in technology, tool, process, and training improvements for the team.
Troubleshoot latency, packet loss, and poor performance; respond to DDoS attacks.
Identify and resolve switch and router hardware and software failures.
Plan and conduct complex maintenance to ensure standardization and uptime.
Manage Internet providers and connectivity.

Requirements

High School Diploma or regional equivalent required
Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or Network Engineering. At the manager’s discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement
Minimum 12 - 14 years of recent experience with network design and build-out of LAN/WANs and/or large-scale network retrofits and remediations
Expert-level experience with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
Industry recognized certifications: CCNA required, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP preferred, CCIE (R&S, SP, or DC) highly preferred (or equivalent experience), Python PCEP
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
Experience working in a 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 remediations 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
Experience with network service monitoring systems (Arbor, Zenoss, Syslog, SolarWinds, Splunk, Kibana, WhatsUp Gold, etc.)

Benefits

Annual bonus or incentives
Equity awards
Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

network designLAN/WANCisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)MPLSBGPQoSIPv6OSPFPythonnetwork troubleshooting

Soft Skills

technical expertiseownershipmentoringprocess improvementcommunicationcustomer servicedocumentationproblem-solvingteam collaborationtraining

Certifications

CCNACCDACCNPCCDPCCIEPython PCEPnetwork certificationsCisco certificationsindustry recognized certificationsequivalent experience