Network Engineer - Diverse Linx

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for leading implementations of complex network solutions that meet the company and business user s requirements and are supportable by the System and Network Operations team. Solutions will follow all corporate security policies, and provide a technically effective architecture. They are also responsible for developing infrastructure design documents and assist in developing the appropriate support procedures.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

Principal Accountabilities

Proactively assess Network Design requirements.

Coordinate and oversee enterprise networking designs and preventive maintenance processes of critical shared and dedicated infrastructure at 2 core datacenters as well as multiple critical office locations and cloud.

Solid understanding of critical industry standards related to Network design and security.

Responsible for design and implementation of network and security strategy, architecture and platforms

Responsible for enterprise due-diligence activities including network and security monitoring and metrics to evaluate effectiveness of the enterprise controls

- Fluent skillset in Checkpoint and Palo Alto firewalls

Accountable for adhering to enterprise architecture standards, ensuring network technology standards and best practices are maintained across the organization and contributing to enterprise architecture strategy-setting

Responsible for ensuring necessary security controls are part of technical designs

Participates in security governance and audits

Participates in IT security efforts across all business areas and client groups

Troubleshoots, recommends and executes action plans for design and issue resolution

Serves as network architecture subject matter expert to business areas, project teams and vendors to apply and execute appropriate use of technology solutions and lead efforts to examine technology vision, opportunities and challenges

Builds consensus around principles of network and security architecture and interprets and clarifies these principles

Participates in the evaluation, selection and implementation of technology solutions including providing detailed analysis of pros and cons and build vs buy options

Provides technical guidance to less experienced Network Engineers

Create design documentation and runbooks that can be easily implemented by build engineers and transitioned to operational support

Conducts post-event reviews of network incidents

Maintains operational, architectural and design documentation including procedures, task lists, and architecture blue prints

Evaluates strengths and flaws in Network Architecture designs including performance, confidentiality, integrity, availability, access and total cost of ownership

Facilitates project hand-offs including preparing documentation, educating and supporting to ensure smooth transitions

Selects and designs tools that allow reuse of design components and patterns between projects

Leverages and postures technology stacks to lead the organization into an automated self-service model

Develops actual working solutions or prototypes based on their own designs and resolves any issues that arise

Establishes and maintains relationships with IT and business area partners to evaluate designs and controls

Continually works to enhance breadth and depth of knowledge and experience.

Benchmarks technology strategies and architectures.

Monitors and anticipates trends and investigates organizational objectives and needs.

Provides guidance on network solutions and prepares benchmarking reports and presentations

Promotes implementation of new technology, solutions and methods to improve business processes, efficiency, effectiveness and value delivered to customers

The essential functions listed represent the major duties of this role, additional duties may be assigned

Understanding of datacenter best practices

Understanding of physical security and access systems.

Maintain staff schedule to meet appropriate shift coverage.

Task manage resources for complex or high-profile installations.

Oversee and drive projects to on-time completion. Ability to manage multiple teams, some remote locations.

Proficient in managing vendor relationships and negotiations.

Work on extremely complex problems where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangible variance factors

Plan and implement effective backup & recovery, business continuity strategies

Strong influencing skills with the ability to communicate new concepts and drive process improvements

Exercise independent judgment in developing methods, techniques and evaluation criterion for obtaining results

Ensure data assets and related processes are in compliance with applicable regulations and industry standards

Proven ability to work across multiple projects/products/teams

Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

Strong analytical and decision-making skill

Requirements JOB QUALIFICATIONS

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree in computer science/related field
• Minimum ten years of experience with networking
• Minimum 5 years of experience with network design
• CCNPEnterprise Infrastructure (Formerly Route/Switch)

Required Knowledge and Skill

• Expert level knowledge in networking routing protocols, including BGP and OSPF
• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Building new L2/L3 Visio diagrams from Data Flow Diagrams
• Understanding and experience in F5 Load Balancers
• Strong security background with advanced knowledge of both Palo Alto and Checkpoint firewalls
• Strong background of WAN technologies including overlay technologies, such as MPLS, DMVPN, SD-WAN, etc
• Strong understanding of and experience designing for Cisco ACI