Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• More than 7 years of experience in design, test, implement, upgrade, and support internal and external networks, including LAN and WAN solutions.
• Certifications such as CNE, CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, CCVP, CCIE, and others are desired.
• Experience working in large network environments (10,000+ nodes) with Cisco, Juniper, or Aruba networking equipment. Advanced understanding of common network protocols, including SNMP, RIP, IPS, and EIGRP.
• Experience with network monitoring tools such as SolarWinds, WhatsUP Gold, and CiscoWorks.
• Expert knowledge of internet, intranet, and extranet systems design, including security, content management, eCommerce, web servers, and application servers.
• Expert knowledge of replication, backup, and disaster recovery design.
• Expert knowledge of system sizing, capacity planning, performance tuning, and storage and area network architecture.
• Maintain network systems, applications, security, configurations, equipment, cabling, monitoring software, and specialty appliances.
• Provide expert-level support for enterprise-wide network operations, including 24/7 availability and complex troubleshooting.
• Support network capacity planning, traffic analysis, forecasting, performance, and cost or service improvements.
• Recommend and implement network project solutions in collaboration with security teams.
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, exercises, and internal and external audits.
• Manage one or more network administration projects and lead technicians and specialists.
• Provide last-level troubleshooting support; typically reports to a manager or department head.

Duties:

• Setup, configure, and support internal and/or external networks and maintain all systems, applications, security, and network configurations.
• Research, analyze, design, test, and implement networks systems.
• Perform network design upgrades and hardware reconfigurations.
• Provide technical support to network Service Desk or customer operations, if requested.
• Assist with network studies, traffic analyses and the preparation of forecasts.
• Recommend modifications to the network configurations that reduce costs or improve service.
• Provide expert level hands on network infrastructure support for the enterprise-wide data communications network. Maintain continuous operations for 24 X 7 network.
• Perform installation, configuration, maintenance and operation of network equipment, cabling system, monitoring software and specialty appliances.
• Resolve networking issues involving complex configuration and technical depth.
• Recommend, design and implement solutions for data network projects.
• Perform resource-based capacity planning and management for network systems.
• Collaborate with security team to identify ways to improve network security.
• Participate in Disaster Recovery planning and exercise activities.
• Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.
• Manage one or more network administration projects.
• Design and implement local and wide area network solutions, including security, capacity planning, backup and recovery and disaster planning.
• Experienced with technical architecture planning, deployment, and troubleshooting.
• Able to manage a team of technicians and specialists and to serve as the last level of support in troubleshooting network usage and equipment.
• Manage multiple network administration projects.
• Participate in internal and external audit activities.

Skills:

• Greater-than 7 years of experience with certification such as CNE, CCNA, CCNP, CCSP, CCVP, CCIE and others desired.
• Experience working in large network environments (10,000+ nodes) with Cisco, Juniper or Aruba networking equipment.
• Advanced understanding of common network protocols including SNMP, RIP, IPS, EIGRP.
• Experience with network monitoring tools (e.g., SolarWinds, WhatsUP Gold, CiscoWorks).
• Expert knowledge of internet, intranet, and extranet systems design.