Position: Senior WAN Engineer

Location: Dearborn, MI (Hybrid)

Job Type: W2 / Fulltime

Job Description:

We are looking for a seasoned Senior WAN Engineering professional to join our diverse and experienced Global WAN Engineering team. The WAN Engineering team defines the Global Wide Area Network connectivity solutions that ensures required communications and data is highly available and reliably exchanged within the client Globally Distributed Wide Area Network.

Skills/Education Required:

• Bachelor s Degree or equivalent work experience in Computer Science, Information Science, Computer Engineering or similar programs.
• Core understanding of global WAN and Telecommunications Technologies in particular TCP/IP networks, routing, switching, load balancing, Cloud & SaaS Cloud technologies, SD-WAN, IPsec, QOS, VoIP, OSPF, LDAP, SMTP, Proxy servers, Load-Balancers and network security protocols
• Understanding of Security principles, IPS, Firewall, Proxy, technologies.
• 5 years experience configuring and implementing Cisco ISA, ASA, Catalyst hardware and associated operating system
• Certification in CCNA, CCND, PMP

Experience Required:

• Experience and knowledge of routers and switches installation, cabling, loading, configuration, testing, and the development with reporting of various testing scenarios that lead to global production applications.
• Experience and knowledge of IPSEC, MPLS, GRE tunnels, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP with multiple areas over variety of WAN transport with deep understanding of BGP protocol and peering.
• Experience and extensive knowledge with Cisco Catalyst 9K, 8300, 8500 - ASR & ISR platforms with execution on Native and SD-WAN environments.
• Experience and detailed theoretical understanding of: WAN/LAN Technologies, Cloud technologies, SD-WAN, IPsec, QOS, VoIP, OSPF, LDAP, SMTP, Proxy servers, Load-Balancers and network security protocols
• Experienced and knowledge with physical cabling media & connectivity methods Ethernet, Fiber/ Optical, LAB environment testing methodologies,
• Experienced and knowledge with performance monitoring tools, packet captures and analysis,
• Experienced and knowledge with virtualization, API integration, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6, Cellular (4G 5G), preforming hardware and software evaluation based on WAN technologies application, capacity, life-cycle management that standardize connectivity options, various failover & high availability designs.
• Can create, development or validate operational materials and runbooks.
• Experienced and knowledge with wide range IP infrastructure applications, e.g. DNS, SMTP, NTP, IMAP, RADIUS, FTP
• Understanding of Pivotal Cloud Foundry Azure & Google Cloud Platform
• Working knowledge of collaboration tools to work and communicate effectively across teams of various levels - WebEx Teams, MS Teams, Miro and Microsoft Office Suite, Slack