Required Skills
- Operational mindset: Prioritize, understand, and act with urgency to restore all incident related work, act as authoritative figure for respective domain, and represent the Ops org during all calls (planned or unplanned)
- 7+ years of experience with network protocols, models, and technologies such as:
- Strong understanding of the upper (application) layers 5-7
- DNS, DHCP, SSL/TLS, HTTP/S, and SNMP
- Fundamental understanding of layers 1-4
- TCP/IP, Ethernet, ARP, and physical constructs
- F5 Load balancing (LTM, GTM, APM), BlueCat DNS/DHCP/IPAM, BlueCat Cloud Resolver, VMware Advanced Load Balancer, and Cloud support (private and/or public)
- Expert experience with troubleshooting complex networking problems
- Experience with JIRA and Confluence
- Understand configuration management with tools such as Forward Networks and HPNA
- Experience using (both proactive and reactive) advanced tooling; Inclusive of but not limited to NetScout, Wireshark, Splunk, SevOne, HPNA, and IBM Watson
- General experience in Network Automation tools and processes
- Self-starter/self-directed, organized and detail oriented
- Strong technical acumen and analytical skills
- Excellent client interfacing skills
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to work with all levels of management
- Experience aligning actions to business impact and service restoral
- Demonstrates ownership: Is accountable and can hold others accountable (professionally)
- Experience operating with colleagues across different time zones with a flexible approach to working hours (ability to work varied hours) to successfully interact and communicate on a global level