Experience level: Associate Experience required: 10 Years Education level: Bachelor’s degree Job function: Information Technology Industry: Financial Services Pay rate : View hourly payrate Total position: 1 Relocation assistance: No Visa : Only US citizens and Greencard holders

This role contract to hire and Hybrid 2 days in a week onsite!

Please submit candidates who are local to wither Dallas or Tampa.

The purpose of the Network Engineering Delivery team is to provide and deliver secure, scalable, resilient next generation network services to the enterprise and external customers. As a Principal Network Engineer, you will be the Lead Network Engineer bringing strong engineering domain expertise to build and drive the Network Modernization initiative. You will be part of a team providing top level expertise to deliver solutions to our customers. As a senior member of the team, you will assist with breaking down sophisticated technical requirements and turning them into actionable deliveries, while also providing mentorship to level 1 and level 2 support teams.

As a Principal Platform Network Engineer, you will own the responsibility of design in collaboration with Network Architects, engineering technical solutions and implementing that will meet the needs of the business. Designs should utilize technologies to optimize the business yet be fully supportable. You will also lead and mentor other engineers in the team on all aspects of design, implementation and how to adapt changing requirements with best practices to present supportable solutions while staying fiscally responsible to the company.

What You’ll Do:

SME in Network Route/Switch, DNS, DHCP, Spine Leaf and other Core Network Technologies

Implement, and support new technologies within the infrastructure environment.

Manages relationships with application teams and prioritizes multiple projects as they go from design into production.

Support and coordinate scheduling and execution of system maintenance, release updates, upgrades, and/or new technology deployments adhering to company’s standard change management protocol.

Effectively complete complex projects and installations within aggressive time frames and budget parameters.

Perform comprehensive evaluation of new feature or product technologies resulting in insightful analysis and recommendation

Automate, troubleshoot, consult with, and resolve highly complex network related issues

Develop and produce timely metrics based on the required management platforms.

Execute performance and statistical monitoring to develop procedures and best practices which improve overall environment.

Aligns risk and control processes into day-to-day responsibilities to monitor and mitigate risk; escalates appropriately

Talents Needed for Success:

Minimum 8–10 years’ experience in engineering, installing, and configuring Network solutions in large and complex datacenter environments

SME level experience in Software-Defined Network (SDN), Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), Cloud Networking, Software Defined WAN (SDWAN), WAN, LAN,VXLAN, BGP, NexGen Firewall, Data Center Networks, Wireless, Load balancers, Hyper Converged technologies

Strong experience in carrier grade optical network design technologies

In depth experience with the design, implementation and support of very large and highly resilient enterprise networks utilizing multiple vendors

Development and scripting experience using Python, Java or other Network Automation products would be a huge plus

Cloud based Networking (AWS and Azure) and industry Cisco certifications such as CCDA, CCNP or CCIE preferred

Excellent communications, interpersonal and support skills.

Strong documentation and process developments skills