Network operations Engineer

JOB DESCRIPTION

• Should have a CCNP and minimum 5-years experience in a fast-paced, large network environment while supporting all facets of routing, switching, firewalls, and wireless.
• Ideal candidates will have at least 3 years experience working in a data center environment and 2 years of project management experience.
• The candidate must not be afraid to call out ongoing or upcoming issues, while maintaining and strengthening relationships with the business, his/her peers, management, and co-workers.
• Will serve as the hands-on engineer and technical task leader and provide guidance to less-experienced network personnel; on-call and off-hours support required as needed.
• Must be proficient in managing complex projects through to completion, bring an innovative approach and solutions to complex challenges, ensure security is at the forefront of solutioning, and be self-motivated and driven.
• Continuous Improvement: Enhances department and organizational reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; proactively seeks out opportunities to add value to job accomplishments and improve processes
• Will design complex networking and circuit installations and ensure that network designs support scalability, redundancy, and high availability.
• Provide support for all Network related initiatives, including hardware and process management, architecture, design, configuration.
• Establish and configure robust voice and data networks by installing and configuring telecommunications equipment, routers, switches, firewalls, and VPNs; coordinating with internal teams and external contractors.
• Manages the deployment of network security protocols to safeguard sensitive information.
• Configures and optimizes network protocols, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, VPN, WAF, IPS, TCP/IP, UDP, CDN, DNS, load balancing, and other network protocols, ensuring high availability and redundancy within the network.
• Integrate new technologies to enhance network performance and reliability; experience working with public cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Azure) preferred.
• Verify service by performing testing on circuits and equipment; identifying, troubleshooting, correcting, or escalating problems to management.
• Proficiency with network capture analyzation and understanding using Wireshark or other network capture technology.