What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Network Principal Engineer position at Global Payments Inc.?
Description
Required Skills
Reports to: Director of Principal Network Engineers, Bobby Peterman
Required Skills
- In-depth understanding of network communication and routing protocols, specifically BGP and OSPF, not limited route manipulation, distribution, and filtering.
- Ability to design and administer a mixture of platforms and technologies included Routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Strong understanding of the TCP/IP stack and relation to network technologies
- Data Center design concepts for a high availability environment
- SD-WAN technology and design, deployment and troubleshooting
- Ability to perform discovery and documentation of complex multi-tier network environments
- Maximizes network performance; troubleshooting network problems; scheduling implementations; collaborating with network and application teams.
- Secures network system by identifying, creating, and enforcing policies and standards
- Experience designing multi data center highly available architecture both in traditional and SDN technologies
- In-depth understanding of network documentation, physical and logical diagrams, and being able to provide detailed diagrams of solutions for engineers to follow and build from.
- Evaluating new technologies and creating/performing proof of concepts
- Provide budget planning and estimates for future network solutions and projects
- Oversee configuration and installation network routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers
- Provide guidance and oversight to other engineers to follow best practices
- Tier-4 Off-hour support may be required for maintenance windows and/or troubleshooting
- Understanding of PCI security standards and practices
- ACI Data Center administration and design
- SD-WAN design and administration
- IPv6 network experience in designing, deploying, and troubleshooting environments
- F5 LTM/GTM load balancer administration and design
- CheckPoint Firewall administration
- 8 years of network engineering, administration, design experience
- 3 years in the financial technology industry
- 3 years of solution architecture experience
- CCIE certification, or demonstrates equivalent experience and knowledge
- A professional personal presentation
- A team player who takes responsibility seriously
- Excellent communication skills with a thoughtful and direct style
- Self-starter who takes initiative to present ideas and solutions
Reports to: Director of Principal Network Engineers, Bobby Peterman