In your role you will support complex network architectures by developing, designing, configuring, and implementing detailed network engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance, and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise.

You will also provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.

Responsibilities:

• Independently perform highly complex assignments.
• Network design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing routing and switching within campus, cloud and data center networks.
• Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.
• Responsible for network performance, as well as conformance to security hardening standards and assessment of CVEs.
• Ability to troubleshoot network-related issues in a logical manner and complete problem resolution management.
• Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth.
• Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative tasks.
• Collaborates with all Information Technology (IT) disciplines.
• Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information.
• Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.
• Perform other special project and duties as assigned.
• Ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.
• Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining appraised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 5-7 years of relevant networking experience required.
• 5-7 years of experience with network design and engineering.
• Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
• Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.
• Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.
• Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco, NGFW
• F5 - Big IP, LTM, GTM, ASM, AFM or comparable ADC experience
• Infoblox - DNS, DHCP, NTP
• Packet capture and analysis - Wireshark, Viavi
• Linux OS understanding

• Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure, Terraform and Cloud Formation Templates
• Automation & scripting - Python, Ansible, IaC
• Routing Protocols - BGP, EIGRP, OSPF
• Cisco Platforms: Routing and Switching
• Switching Protocols - Spanning Tree, Port Channels
• Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management
• Packet Broker - Gigamon
• Experience with - (ISR/ASR/Nexus/Catalyst), wireless, ACI, Meraki, SDWAN, ISE