Senior Network Engineer
Location
Virginia
Posted
103 days ago
Salary
$105K - $141.8K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Network Engineer
Rocket Software
• Maintain and monitor network infrastructure for availability and performance. • Evaluate new networking technologies and strategies. • Participate in project planning and delivery activities. • Work multiple project and work streams concurrently and deliver projects on time and on budget. • Participate in roadmap and architecture planning activities. • Respond to network and/or voice related incidents, troubleshoot and assess and provide remediation plans. • Work network related incident and trouble tickets, and on-call rotation. • Maintain network and voice standard operating procedures, diagrams, and maintenance plans. • Collaborate with third-party support and service vendors to ensure the network stays operational.
Job Requirements
- 5-8 years of experience in traditional WAN and LAN using Cisco products (routing, switching, wireless) and protocols (such as HSRP, VPC, Port-channels, Spanning Tree, VTP).
- 5-8 years of experience with routing protocol (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), QoS and traffic shaping.
- 3-5 years with SD-WAN technologies.
- 5-8 years in a complex, distributed and multi-OS environment with overlapping technologies.
- 5-8 years experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama, and GlobalProtect VPN client.
- AWS, Azure or other cloud infrastructure experience.
- Excellent customer service-oriented attitude and desire to support end users with issues of varying degrees of complexity.
- Excellent interpersonal skills.
- Thorough understanding of troubleshooting complex systems and services from client through network/connectivity and server/storage.
- Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support and guidance.
- Ability and motivation to mentor staff members and share knowledge.
- Effective written and verbal communication skills.
- Desire and ability to document configurations in support of a larger team.
- Experience with monitoring software such as Nagios or other network monitoring products.
- Experience with Cisco ACI (Application Centric infrastructure) technologies and Nexus 9K
- Experience with TACACS and Cisco ISE.
Benefits
- Unlimited Vacation Time as well as paid holidays and sick time
- Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents
- Life and disability coverage
- Fidelity 401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings with matching contributions
- Monthly student debt benefit program
- Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate Reimbursement Program opportunities
- Leadership and skills training opportunities
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