***Hybrid, 3 days onsite, 2 days remote***
A prestigious company is looking for a Senior Associate, Network Engineer. This role is focused on layer 3 routing and switching, AWS cloud, IOS, NX-OS, and XR, NAC solutions, load balancing, firewalls, etc.
Responsibilities:
- Support the team members who design/architect new routing, switching, and connectivity solutions
- Support the team members who design/architect new cloud network solutions
- Support the team members who design, architect and plan network changes and new infrastructure
- Work with vendors, common carriers and network engineering in identification and resolution of complex network problems
- Ensure IT/Security Governance needs are met. (NIST-CSF and COBIT)
- Ensure network performance and network security standards are met
- Provide tactical and strategic input on overall network planning and related projects
- Provide on-call support according to assigned schedule | Document network changes, policies and procedures and drawings
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree, preferably in a technical discipline (Computer Science, Mathematics, etc.), or equivalent combination of education and experience
- 1+ years of experience in IT systems installation, operations, administration, and maintenance of virtualized servers / cloud systems
- Experience directing use of tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, Python, and Github (or industry equivalent)
- Experience delivering Infrastructure as code
- Experience building cloud infrastructure in environments such as AWS (Preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud, or similar service
- Experience using Agile Methodology | Knowledge of layer 3 routing and switching
- Experience with IOS, NX-OS, and XR
- Advanced experience with architecting, designing, deploying, and operating network elements such as DNS/IPAM; Firewalls; Network Access Control Solutions (NAC); load balancing; DDoS mitigation, tapping/sniffing infrastructures; and NTP
- Excellent physical communication troubleshooting skills using cabling and signaling analyzer, packet capture and analysis
- Advanced WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, VPN, Ethernet Skills | Extensive EIGRP, BGP4, RIP and OSPF Routing Protocol knowledge
- Experience with SDN deployments or Cisco ACI
- Experience with IP route and switching for mainframe and storage appliances
