Ventus, part of Digi International, is an industry leader in IT networking innovations, leveraging technology to produce market-driving network solutions. Operating from over 20 years of experience delivering secure enterprise class networks, Ventus develops cellular wireless and fixed line SD-WAN, Hybrid WAN, and Cellular WAN solutions for an expanding array of business connectivity applications.
Position
We are seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer with experience in designing, implementing, and managing large-scale networks with strong hands-on experience in Datacenter and Cloud Networking, Routing, Switching, and Security. You will be part of the Network Engineering & Operations team, optimizing network performance, ensuring high availability, and resolving complex connectivity issues.
What We Offer
Our success has been driven by our focus on our employees and their families. By providing a diverse and open work environment, Ventus has created a culture of collaboration, along with a devotion to supporting and contributing to our community-at-large, that brings about solution innovations to better serve our customers’ network needs.
Our commitment to customers — to the improvement of their operations and to the success of their enterprise — defines our focus. Our Build, Host, Deploy, and Maintain philosophy ensures that our customers’ receive industry leading network uptime.
We continually aim for excellence — both in the products and services we offer and in the ways we operate. Our philosophy reflects a dedication to constant improvement of our operations, commitment to our customers, enrichment of our global community, and achieving environmental sustainability. Starting with the customer – and finding out what they want and build and deliver innovative solutions.
What You Will Do
- Design, implement, and maintain secure routing solutions for L3VPN networks for enterprise clients, ensuring high availability, improving network reliability, and reducing latency.
- Configure, maintain, and monitor routers, switches, firewalls, and other network devices.
- Implements, maintains, and monitors network security measures, including VLANs, firewalls, IPSec tunnels, to safeguard against unauthorized access and potential security threats.
- Implement BGP route optimization techniques, such as prefix aggregation and route summarization, to reduce the size of the BGP routing table and improve network performance.
- Troubleshoot BGP and OSPF routing problems to improve network uptime.
- Conduct regular network audits to identify vulnerabilities and implement security enhancements.
- Utilized Wireshark and tcpdump to investigate and resolve network latency and connectivity issues.
- Configure and manage Cisco Nexus 9K, 7K, and Catalyst 3850 and 9300 as Core and aggregate switches.
Who You Are and What You Bring
- You are a passionate network engineer who has a minimum of 5-7 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or technical discipline; or 3-4 years and a Master’s degree; or equivalent work experience.
- You will have in-depth networking and routing knowledge of BGP, MPLS L3VPN, LDP, RSVP, OSPF, and TCP/IP.
- You are experienced with designing and configuring DMVPN solution for enterprise clients.
- You are proficient with Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, and SDWAN solutions and are Cisco certified.
- You are used to working with other teams to integrate network automation solutions with existing infrastructure and systems.
- You routinely document network configurations, diagrams, and standard operating procedures for future reference.
- You provided network automation support, including the development of automation scripts and tools to streamline network operations.
- You have a working knowledge of Linux command line tools.
Desired But Not Required
- Cisco or Juniper Professional or Expert certification
- Cloud Networking: AWS, Azure
- Network Security: Firewalls, Open VPN, IDS/IPS
- Scripting and Automation: Python, Bash and Ansible
- Troubleshooting: Wireshark, Packet Analysis
- Network Management: Cisco Prime, Solar Winds, Wireshark, Secure CRT, NetFlow
- Technologies: Linux, VyOS, FRR, OpenSwan/LIbreSWAN/StrongSWAN
- Virtualization: KVM, VMware
Digi offers a distinctive Total Rewards package including new hire stock award, paid parental leave, open (uncapped) PTO, and hybrid work environment in addition to our competitive medical, health & wellbeing and compensation offerings.
At Digi, we embrace diversity and inclusion among our teammates. It is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool. We are committed to providing an environment of respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates.