Senior Network Engineer
Raleigh
Primary Accountability/Responsibility:
The Senior Network Engineer will support the core network infrastructure as well as managed customer environments. They will demonstrate senior level expertise on core routing technologies as they apply to a service provider network.
Job Accountability/Responsibility:
- Provide daily operational support of the Hosted Solutions core network infrastructure.
- Offer design recommendations for improving core network performance and efficiency.
- Plan, install, and provide daily operational support for managed customer networking environments. (switching/routing infrastructure, firewalls, load balancers, IPS/IDS, etc.)
- Suggest future products as well as offer enhancements for existing products.
- Consult with customers regarding network performance problems, ideas for design improvements, planning their environment turn-up, etc.
- Provide technical training and mentoring to junior level engineers/technicians.
- Provide support for after-hours maintenance activities.
- Participate in an on-call support rotation to ensure 24x7x365 coverage for critical core and customer infrastructure, as a member of the Network Engineering team.
Requirements:
Knowledge/Skill Requirements:
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Major vendor technical certifications such as CCIE or CCIP
- Expert level knowledge of core networking technologies including:
- BGP (large scale with many different upstream ISPs)
- OSPF
- MPLS (L2 and L3 VPNs)
- Routing and switching infrastructure from Cisco, Juniper, etc.
- Cisco 7600/6500 series
- Cisco Nexus
- Access layer switching such as Cisco 2960/3750 and Juniper EX series
- Layer 2 technologies such as Spanning Tree, STP, RSTP, etc.
- 10+ years of production support and design of the above technologies
- 10+ years of experience with network security technologies and best practices
- 8+ years of production support for major firewall platforms such as:
- Juniper SSG, ISG, and SRX product lines
- Check Point NGX implemented on SecurePlatform (SPLAT)
- Cisco ASA
- Expert level network troubleshooting skills utilizing packet capture/analysis packages such as Omnipeek, Wireshark, etc.
- Excellent customer facing communication skills (both written and verbal)
City:
Raleigh
State:
NC
