About the Position:

As a Sr. Network Engineer with Cologix you will be responsible for assist in the engineering, design, and maintain a large datacenter network.

What you do daily:

• Evaluate and maintain traffic flows across transit and backbone links
• Tier III support for network related problems
• Troubleshooting of backbone network
• Evaluate new technologies as needed
• Responding to trouble tickets and customer calls that are escalated
• Hardware installations of network infrastructure
• Turn up of high touch customer deployments

What makes you a good fit: (Qualifications)

• Minimum 4-8 years’ experience as network engineer
• Excellent oral and written communications skills and a strong customer service mentality
• Strong analytical and effective problem solving skills.
• Manage assigned tasks and projects with little supervision.
• Quick learner who can adapt to changing requirements
• Proven experience working in a team-based environment
• Self-starter who possesses good time management skills
• Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
• Diplomatic, positive approach to interacting with employees
• Must be punctual, reliable, flexible and willing to work additional hours when necessary to meet the demands of the department

Strong Understanding of the following technologies and platforms:
Required:

• Routers and switches: Cisco, Juniper, Brocade
• Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, and Sophos
• Load balancers -Unix platforms
• MPLS/EVPN/VXLAN/OTV/L3VPN
• Core routing experience
• Strong understanding of routing protocols: eBGP, iBGP, ISIS, OSPF, and EIGRP
• Strong Layer2/Layer3 background
• Windows, Linux, and MAC Operating Systems
• Enterprise Server Configuration (Dell, HP, Supermicro)
• VPN Configuration
• Private Cloud Configuration and Installation
• VMware Essentials
• Alarm Monitoring
  • Cyber SecurityVPN Configuration

• Private Cloud Configuration and Installation (vCloud Director)
• VMware Essentials
• Physical Racking and Cabling of Enterprise Devices
• Alarm Monitoring
• Ticketing System Use

Preferred:

• Optical Engineering
• Virtualization: VMWare, Openstack, KVM, Puppet, Chef
• Scripting: Python, Perl, PHP, and shell preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

• CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate
• CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional
• JNCIA – Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate