Senior Network Operations Engineer at US Tech Solutions, Inc.

Duration: 12 + Months Contract to Hire

Job Description:
Seeking a talented and experienced network operations engineer who will be responsible for the management, maintenance, and optimization of our network infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in a large-scale network environment utilizing an SD-WAN architecture.

Your role in our mission

Be part of a network team supporting a variety of responsibilities relating to
• Design and implement network solutions that meet the organization's requirements, including LAN, WAN, and cloud-based solutions.
• Architect and plan for high-availability network designs, ensuring network performance, security, and redundancy.
• Configure routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and other network devices
• Deploy and maintain network hardware and software solutions, ensuring compatibility and integration with existing infrastructure
• Implement security policies and configurations, including the use of firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS, and secure routing protocols
• Analyse network traffic and troubleshoot issues, minimizing downtime and ensuring optimal network performance.
• Implement and maintain network performance optimization techniques, including bandwidth management, Quality of Service (QoS), and latency reduction.
• Provide troubleshooting support for network outages, slowdowns, or other incidents affecting the network infrastructure.
• Plan for network capacity and growth, ensuring infrastructure can handle increased traffic, users, and applications.
• Ensure business continuity by implementing robust disaster recovery plans that include network redundancy and failover mechanisms.
• Manage hybrid cloud network environments, including configurations of cloud services (AWS, Clienture, GCP) and integration with on-premise networks.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to recommend improvements and enhancements to the infrastructure.

Knowledge/Skills Applied to Job Responsibilities
• Experience working with enterprise-level networks with multiple locations and high traffic volume.
• Expertise in router and switch configuration
• Strong knowledge of firewalls (e.g., Cisco ASA, Fortinet, Palo Alto) VPN technologies (IPsec, SSL, MPLS VPN), and load balancing (F5)
• Architectural experience with SD-WAN networks
• Excellent network troubleshooting skills with tools such as packet tracing and Wireshark.
• Thorough understanding of Wi-Fi technologies (802.11 a/b/g/n/ac/ax), WLAN design, and Wi-Fi troubleshooting.
• Experience in managing network upgrades, migrations, and installations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for documentation, technical reports, and collaboration with other IT teams and stakeholders.

What we are looking for
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or related field with 5+ years of experience working in enterprise network environment.
• 3+ years documenting policies, procedures and systems architecture
• Experience working with network systems and networking principles and practices