Job Description: Our client is seeking a skilled Network Engineer, who will be responsible for the engineering and operational activities for the campus and datacenter networks. This role will be expected to collaborate with other engineers and Infrastructure Architect for project and operational designs. The Network Engineer is expected to be a self-starter who is comfortable prioritizing and effectively managing their daily workload. This position requires any successful candidate to be abl to analyze, troubleshoot and resolve highly complex issues within clients' network.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Expert level experience in routing & switching, Wi-Fi and network packet brokers to design, implement, and support our datacenter and campus networks.

Provide day to day operational support for clients' Arista LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure.

Reviews network designs for an EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and makes recommendations for deployment, upgrades, enhancements, or improvements as required.

Deploying and maintaining Arista's NDR and AGNI Security solutions.

Develop and maintain a network infrastructure monitoring and alerting strategy.

Support interoperability between Arista and other networking solutions including Cisco and Palo Alto.

Assist with configuration buildouts including creating network provisioning automation using Python and tools such as Chef or Ansible.

Continuously improving processes and documentation for network assets

Participate in troubleshooting incidents for client and coordinate with vendor support as required.

Build and maintain partnership with external vendors, including Arista TAC.

Translate complex business requirements and objectives into leaf-spine network solutions.

Continues technology, security, and networking training to maintain expertise.

Supporting clients business services by completing requests and resolving incidents in documented SLA timings; as well as following all change management processes.

Ensuring security solutions, policies, and procedures are sufficient to meet and respond to threats to our network infrastructure.

Other duties as assigned.

Required Skills and Experience:

Network Industry Certification preferred Arista ACE 3 or above

Expert working knowledge of CloudVision

Experience with Arista (preferably) or another commercial Wi-Fi platform.

10 years' working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks.

Expert knowledge of leaf-spine architectures

Expert knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, Multicast, QoS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and 802.1X

Expertise in at least one area of Data Center related technologies - Openstack, SDN, NFV, Load Balancers, Virtualization, Linux tools.

Background in Perl, Python, Scripting for creating network automation is highly desired.

Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills

Excellent written skills and desire to document network infrastructures.

Experience with working in an ITIL or similar service operational environment.t

Desired Skills:

Palo Alto firewall experience

Citrix NetScaler or load balancing experience.

Zscaler Secure Private Access experience

Nutanix Flow or virtual machine micro-segmentation experience preferred.

Microsoft Azure networking knowledge a plus

Experience working with a Network Access Control solution.