Sr Network Engineer

General Summary Of Position

The Senior Network Engineer is a technical specialist role in the Network administration area supporting local and wide area networks in a multi platform, protocol, and operating system environment.

Major Responsibilities

• Under the direction of the Director of Network and Telecom, provides third level support to end users
• Plans, procures, installs and maintains local and wide area networks in a multi protocol environment
• Reviews products and recommends acquisition or modification of hardware, software or contract services
• Monitors network functions and evaluates operations and network performance
• Involved in the implementation and maintenance of major subsystems
• Acknowledge and resolve user service requests utilizing the service request management system
• Frequently contributes to the development of new theories and methods
• Develops resolutions to complex problems that require frequent use of creativity uses judgement within defined policies
• Contributes to the development of organizational goals and objectives
• Represents the organization as the principle customer contact.
• Often performs project leadership duties
• Performs other duties and responsibilities as required
  
  

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or Information Management Systems, or equivalent
• 7 years of related work experience including project management
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Valid drivers license and dependable transportation.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Knowledge of implementation and troubleshooting of Layer 2-3 switching technologies vendor products from Cisco Systems well as Checkpoint firewall configuration and setup
• Knowledge of Cisco wireless, ISE and Prime
• Experience with implementing and supporting wireless infrastructures from large Enterprise vendors utilizing Cisco Systems equipment
• Good understanding of best practice Data Center network support
• Expert level knowledge of routing protocols to include OSPF, and BGP with an overall understanding of routing concepts / design
• Working knowledge of F5 load balancer configuration and management with interaction of DNS components
• Experience with the implementation and configuration of Enterprise class firewalls from Checkpoint Technologies. Understand firewall integration, rule creation, and safeguard policy configuration
• Demonstrate a clear understanding and expertise for deployment of networking technologies in a virtualized environment and be able to present these concepts in conjunction with the Universitys Networking team
• Working knowledge and use of network troubleshooting tools to solve complex network problems from Solarwinds Orion and Riverbeds Application Performance Management systems
• Working knowledge of Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching platforms
• Working knowledge of Brocade Extension switches
• CISCO CCNP, CheckPoint CCSA
  
  

The University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School welcomes all qualified applicants and complies with all state and federal anti-discrimination laws.