Summary:

The Network Engineer plans, designs, implements, maintains and/or manages the multiple levels of support of the network environment. This position is responsible for the development and analysis of complex, leading edge network systems to align with business strategy.

Responsibilities:

• WAN provisioning and support of the LAN, WAN, Security and Voice infrastructure for Enterprise and Production environments globally.
• Provide expertise on decisions, security, and priorities regarding the network environment.
• Drives the establishment and implementation of standards and guidelines that guide the network solutions across the enterprise in a secure manner.
• Acts as the liaison and subject matter expert between the architecture, security, and engineering teams to integrate technical solutions to existing multifaceted, complex, customer facing production environments.
• Change management procedures and detailed ownership, planning, and execution of complex, secure, high risk, multifaceted changes.
• Provide technical guidance to project teams and individuals as appropriate.
• Acts as one of the escalation points for all networks and related technical designs.
• Respond, analyze, and follow up on outstanding network issues at all levels; ensure timely problem resolution.
• Strive to improve communications and teamwork across organizations.
• Other key functions include carrier management, incident management, problem management, capacity management, service acceptance, event management, performance management, and standards compliance, with a focus on service restoration, sustainability, and proactive service improvement.
• Additional duties as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in an Engineering/Computer Science related field or equivalent work experience
• One or more vendor certifications: Cisco CCNA, CCNP, Fortinet FSE, etc.
• 4 years’ experience in a large multi-platform environment or equivalent technical experience.
• Ability to analyze and oversee the design of complex network products, projects, and services to meet corporate needs.
• Strong analytical\trouble shooting skills with extensive work experience; experience in providing situational analysis for networking\telecommunications.
• Strong verbal and written communication.
• Excellent customer orientation, support, and interfacing experience with ability to persuade, convince, or influence others to take appropriate action.
• Proven success in dealing with concurrent problems and issues effectively in a dynamic, high-pressure environment.
• Understanding of business strategy as it relates to network environment.
• Innovative and highly skilled professional with knowledge of networking, voice technologies and services.
• Strong working knowledge of OSI layers 1-7, with the ability to apply analytical and troubleshooting skillsets to solve complex problems within Telecom and across IT disciplines.
• Technical aptitude should be balanced with strong business skills that demonstrate excellent communications, interpersonal, and professional skills, including integrity, self-motivation, adaptability, and dependability.
• Familiarity with the following technologies and other related programs; Ability to learn new technologies as needed:
  • Routing and Layer 3 protocols
  • BGP, IGP, and EIGRP
  • Public BGP multi-homing topologies
  • WAN Technologies
  • MPLS
  • SDWAN
  • Load Balancer =F5 and NetScaler
  • Internet Redundancy with SLA’s
  • Vendors = VZB, Century Link, Level 3, ATT
  • Hardware = Cisco
  • LAN
  • APIC and ACI Spine and Leaf fabric
  • Arista MLAG, VPC and VRF
  • Nexus 9K, 7K and 2K
  • ISE 802.1x and TACACS
  • Redundant and self-healing LAN designs
  • Vendors = Arista, Cisco
  • Monitoring
  • Net flow configuring and polling
  • OpenConfig knowledge a plus
  • Monitoring platforms such as SolarWinds & Logic Monitor
  • Traffic tools and performance testing
  • IXIA, iPerf
  • Scrutinizer
  • Security Engineering
  • Implementing requested policies, configuring advanced features, troubleshooting, and tuning
  • DUO- 2FA
  • ADFS
  • Vendors = Fortinet, Qualys, SecureWorks, DUO

K2 Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, civil union status, national origin, ancestry, age, parental status, disabled status, veteran status, or any other legally protected classification, in accordance with applicable law.