Network Specialist

Who are we?

Amdocs helps those who build the future to make it amazing. With our market-leading portfolio of software products and services, we unlock our customers’ innovative potential, empowering them to provide next-generation communication and media experiences for both the individual end user and enterprise customers. Our employees around the globe are here to accelerate service providers’ migration to the cloud, enable them to differentiate in the 5G era, and digitalize and automate their operations. Listed on the NASDAQ Global Select Market, Amdocs had revenue of $5.00 billion in fiscal 2024. For more information, visit www.amdocs.com

At Amdocs, our mission is to empower our employees to 'Live Amazing, Do Amazing' every day. We believe in creating a workplace where you not only excel professionally but also thrive personally. Through our culture of making a real impact, fostering growth, embracing flexibility, and building connections, we enable them to live meaningful lives while making a difference in the world.

In one sentence

Responsible for designing, managing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting heterogenous computer communication networks within or between organizations to ensure secure network, maximum performance, and availability to users.

What will your job look like?

• You will design, install, configure, implement, and maintain different types of data networks infrastructure in an enterprise environment in Private Data Centers
• You will troubleshoot data networks infrastructure complex problems and outages across a broad range of technologies
• You will get to maximize network infrastructure performance; tune performance parameters by analyzing monitoring and trend analysis reports
• You will secure networks infrastructure systems by establishing and enforcing policies and by defining and monitoring access
• You will schedule and perform upgrades to keep network infrastructure technology up to date
• You will Design, Install, Configure and maintain different SDN/Cloud Technologies
• You will use your collaboration ability to work with different IT stake holders within the organization, and with external customers, to ensure that network infrastructure support the needs of the organization and customers
• You will debug system-level problems in hardware and software in multi-vendor, multi-protocol data networks as well as in infrastructure
• You will Administrate and manage Cisco and Arista Switches, Routers, and Firewall
• You will provide remote infrastructure support and VPN configuration.
You will find quick solutions to malfunctions while making sure that the designated network equipment and computers stay functional

Work Location Requirement

Position requires employee to work out of our Champaign, Illinois, facility, 5 (five) days per week.

Work Authorization Requirement

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time or in the future for this position.

All you need is...

• Experience and knowledge with TCP/IP, switching and routing protocols, Netflow, access-control lists, firewalls, DNS, VPN, IPSEC, AAA, and TACACS is MUST
• Hands on experience in CISCO and/or Arista Networking devices is MUST
• Hands on experience in Private Data Center wrt Network Tasks/Management is MUST.
• Cisco ACI/DCNM/NDFC: Hands on experience with one of more of these technologies. Arista CVP and AWS Cloud exposure and hands on is highly beneficial
• Experience with Palo Alto FWs and F5 Load Balancers is desirable
• Minimum 5 years of experience in various data network infrastructure tools and technologies
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent
Cisco, CCNA, and CCNP preferred

Why you will love this job:

• You are great at managing networks. We have vast networks as a large technology company that specializes in the communications industry. See where we are going with this…we need someone really good. What are you waiting for? This job is for you!
• You will be a key member of a global, dynamic and highly collaborative team with various possibilities for personal and professional development
• You will have the opportunity to work in multinational environment for the global market leader in its field
You will have great opportunity to learn and grow with On-prem as well as Public Cloud Network technologies