Sr. Network Engineer@ Nashville, TN - Diverse Linx

Title: Sr. Network Engineer

Location: : Nashville, TN

Type: Contract

POSITION SUMMARY:

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for leading implementations of complex network solutions that meet the company and business users 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:

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

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
• CCNP Enterprise 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