Network Engineer SME

Network Engineer SME

Location: Remote within the US

Clearance: Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance

Certification:  CNNP

Job Responsibilities:

• Experience with deploying and supporting Cisco Software-defined networking (SDN)
• Lead the integration of new technical solutions.
• Led and participating in Data Center and network-related projects.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced network engineers and other technical staff.
• Recommending enhancements to improve systems availability and performance.
• Offer recommendations for procedural upgrades.
• Define organizational, departmental, or project processes and policies.
• Communicate how the company should apply the rules, regulations, processes, and policies.
• Identify pain points and recommend process improvements.
• Provide technical communication pertaining to configurations in a concise, professional manner.
• Validate the needs and deliverables of the product or service involved.
• Offer valuable insights and inputs to help design and construct test cases and scenarios.
• Test a particular product or service, using it, evaluate and provide honest and comprehensive feedback about it to the development/engineering team.
• Analyze network topologies, traffic, and capacity requirements.
• Providing day-to-day operational support and guidance of multiple Data Centers and related network infrastructure, while maintaining a best practices approach
• Providing network administration and support to a campus-wide area network infrastructure and act as customer liaison with customer’s central IT network core infrastructure
• Experience working with TCP IP protocol suite, IP subnets and masking, and routing protocols.
• Experience working in Local Area Network (LAN) environments and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
• Experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting Routing and Switching systems (Cisco expertise required)
• Experience with Routing Protocols to include BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, EIGRP and ISIS
• Experience with Gateway Redundancy Protocols to include HSRP and VRRP
• Experience implementing L2VPN, L3VPN across an MPLS network.
• Experience with EVPN with VXLAN Data Plan Encapsulation across an MPLS network
• Experience creating network topology diagrams.
• Monitoring system activity and logs for problems
• Participating in regular Data Center maintenance window planning and implementations
• Managing and maintaining all Data Center/Network documentation
• Keeping current with recent trends and technologies
• Suggesting and bringing forward improvements and keeping infrastructure up to date
• Analyzing facilities’ bandwidth and capacity requirements and system interdependencies
• Maintaining security and ensuring compliance with security policies and procedures
• Provide on-call support for off hours data center escalations.
• Perform regular scheduled out of hours maintenance window support.
• Experience with network IP address management

Required experience for this SME role.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent work experience, with a minimum of 12-15 years of hands-on experience in the implementation and administration of complex, multi-location, multi-vendor, converged voice/data networks in a geographically distributed environment.
• CCNP certification
• Hands-on experience in administering Cisco routers (Cisco ISR, ASR series) & switches including but not limited to 35xx, 37xx, 38xx, 45xx, 65xx, Nexus 9xxx, 7xxx, 6xxx, 5xxx, 2xxx & 1xxx series. Cisco ONS. Cisco ACI and DNA Center. Juniper MX routers and EX switches. Dell Force10-MXL switches. Riverbed Steelhead and Steelhead Mobile. F5 Big-IP LTM. Infoblox DDI appliances.
• Good understanding of network principles and the OSI model.
• Experience managing networks, internal and external DNS, and the associated IP infrastructure.
• Experience working in a Data Center
• Experience administering and configuring monitoring tools for proactive alerting and trends analysis.
• Experience in working with support ticketing systems, managing assigned tickets, as well as providing appropriate follow up.
• Experience with creating and maintaining documentation.
• Experience with the use of Data Center inventory management tools

For immediate consideration, please apply directly or contact Crystal Dinnocenti at (484)-388-1777 or Cdinnocenti@altaits.com