Network Engineer

Network Engineer III 21955 Loudoun County Pkwy Ashburn Virginia 20147 12 Months (Likely extension for another 12 months)

Note: Travel Required (Y/N) & Cadence: 10% of travel required, up to 30% based on projects. Move around within dc locations
Must-Have Skills:

• Experience with network design deployment
• Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP)
• Strong communication skills, detail oriented, and willing to learn new skills

Years of overall experience required:

• 5 years minimum

Degrees/certifications required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, relevant technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities:

• Deployment, configuration, and management of all network infrastructure in our labs
• Work with partner teams and vendors to manage day-to-day operations and reliability of the lab network
• Schedule and perform maintenance including upgrades, migrations, and decommissioning of production networks
• Create deployment packages and maintain as-built documentation and asset database for installed network gear
• Establish and implement best practices and contribute to the design of new scalable network solutions
• Support the development, testing and integration of new hardware and software platforms into the network
• Participate in an on-call rotation to support the regional network infrastructure 24x7

Qualifications:

• Experience configuring and troubleshooting routing and switching protocols (BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, RSVP-TE, VRRP)
• Working knowledge of physical infrastructure design including structured cabling and fiber-optic cabling
• Proven experience working in a global team environment and solving problems with limited supervision
• Working knowledge of network protocols (TCP/UDP, DHCP, DNS) and experience with IPv4 and IPv6
• 6+ years of work experience responsible for designing, deploying and operating large-scale networks
• Experience working in a multi-vendor environment with hands-on experience with networking hardware Proven experience managing multiple projects simultaneously and deliver against mission critical deadlines

Surrounding team & key projects:

• The Edge Network Services (ENS) organization designs, builds(deploys), and supports(operates) a network of 2B+ active users of Facebook platform. 1B+ active users from messenger, 1B+ users from instagram and 1B+ users from whatsapp.
• network engineers on the team, and this role would be to support the team with new hardware and software policy. Builds testbands for them to test on.

Typical Day-to-Day in the role:

• Deploying in data centers POPS Points of Presence Orchestrate projects Hand back over to requestor