Senior Network Engineer

Role Overview

• Support Infrastructure Services through maintaining a high level of technical expertise in Advanced Cisco Routing and Switching and SD-WAN
• Support delivery teams and engineers in the deployment of Services
• Serve as an escalation point for delivery engineers
• Assist with the introduction of new services, including development and documentation of deployment methodologies
• Work with delivery teams to develop those capabilities in the field
• Responsible for the development of network planning, design, and implementation services
• Pre/Post sales consultant to Enterprise clients
• Create Low Level and High-Level design of Campus and Wide Area networks utilizing industry best practices
• Translate business outcomes to technical solutions
• Provide technical guidance and support to delivery engineers throughout all phases of a project including Project Launch Workshops, Kickoff calls, lessons learned, etc. as needed
• Review client deliverables to identify opportunities to improve quality through training, mentoring, product offering improvement, and talent acquisition
• Monitor network performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry
• Access the technical effort required to deliver solutions
• Serve as an escalation point for troubleshooting of customer networks

Requirements

• Fluent in English
• 7+ years of experience designing, deploying, and implementing LAN/WAN networks in accordance with industry best practices
• Extensive large scale WAN experience required
• Extensive campus networking experience required
• Highly skilled in consulting with customers at all levels of the organization in both pre and post-sales
• Highly Skilled in SD-WAN Cisco Viptela
• Highly Skilled in at least one (1) other of the following is desired: SD-WAN (VMware Velocloud, Aruba/SilverPeak Edgeconnect, Fortinet, Versa)
• Experience integrating SD-WAN into SASE/SSE and cloud deployments (Umbrella SIG, Zscaler, Prisma)
• Strong knowledge of IP communication and routing is required (ISIS, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP)
• Experience with inter-company routing is preferred
• Experience with Hybrid Cloud network deployments including AWS, Azure, GCP is a plus
• Experienced with logical design models (VXLAN-EVPN, VXLAN-LISP, Advanced segmentation, Inter-segmentation routing, multi-tenancy, Device Contexts, L2/L3, VPC, VSS, Stackwise Virtual, Datacenter Zones, Spanning tree, VRFs, VLANs)
• Working technical knowledge of network and security protocols (IPSEC VPN, SGT, SSL VPN, AAA, Dot1x, TustSec, NAT, QoS etc)
• Implementation experience with Cisco DNA Center and Software Defined Access
• General working knowledge of Cisco (fabric) wireless and Cisco ISE
• Configuration management of networking devices using PnP/ZTP, automation tools (Cisco DNA-Center, vManage, Cisco Prime, ISE) and API scripting with Python
• Knowledge of templating languages (Velocity, Jinja2)
• Experience with network automation using Ansible, Terraform or other orchestration tools
• Knowledge or experience with Meraki is a plus
• Working knowledge of middle-mile, cloud interconnectivity or multicloud technologies (Equinix, Megaport, Aviatrix etc) is a plus
• Certifications in industry leading network products: Cisco (CCIE, CCNP), Arista, Aruba, VMware, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper, Zscaler, AWS, GCP, Azure
• Multi-vendor experience is required
• Cisco partner post sales consulting experience strongly preferred
• Related degree in computer science or electrical engineering and/or seven to ten years equivalent network engineering experience.

Tech Stack

• Ansible
• AWS
• Azure
• Cloud
• Google Cloud Platform
• Python
• Switching
• Terraform
• VMware

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Professional development
• Flexible work arrangements