Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

Requirements

• Experience with Arista, Fortinet, and Cisco switches, including network design, architecture, and technical skills.
• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining an enterprise quality of service architecture suitable for converged voice, video and data services.
• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining voice services compatible with Microsoft Teams calling.
• Network connectivity including SD-WAN, ELAN, port aggregation, load balancing and failover etc.
• Experience with designing, implementing and maintaining Juniper and Cisco wireless networks.
• Determines standards for implementation and configuration of software, hardware and system capabilities.
• Experience with driving and providing technical leadership of the design and build out of new data networking environments.
• Experience with network monitoring and management tools; setup, configuration, ongoing maintenance and tweaking; ability to provide reports and develop strategic direction based on those reports.
• Exposure to SIP, MGCP, G.729, G.711, and RTP and H.323.
• Experience with Fortinet perimeter security including firewalls and VPN technologies; IPSEC and SSL VPNs for internal and external customers.
• Enterprise experience with EIGRP, BGP, OSPF and spanning tree.
• Experience with vendor management: Hardware, software, telecom service providers, 3rd party services and support.

Responsibilities

• Installation, maintenance and enhancements of global networks that deliver voice, video and data services on corporate production and guest networks.
• Perimeter network security including Fortinet Fortigate and Cisco ASA/FTD.
• Maintenance of private DHCP services and both public and private DNS services.
• Ensure data integrity and security by evaluating, implementing, and managing appropriate network infrastructure hardware and software solutions utilizing industry standards and best practices.
• Assist with developing standards, policies, and configuration guidelines. Establish and document standards and procedures for team review.
• Conducts routine hardware and software audits of the network infrastructure to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, best practices and configuration guidelines.
• Perform upgrades to network infrastructure components.
• Develop detailed implementation plans including communication strategies, validation and back out procedures.
• Coordinates and implements low to high-risk network changes according to ITIL framework, independently to mission critical functional areas while following established designs and configurations already developed.
• Work with voice and data service providers to obtain new services and troubleshoot/maintain existing service.
• Work with the IT group to develop and enhance processes and procedures for disaster recovery.
• Schedule and maintain projected efforts for projects, enhancements and administrative tasks.
• Assures technical development of other team members through sharing knowledge and experience.
• Develop, enhance and communicate key networking metrics to Senior Leadership.
• Perform work outside of normal business hours related but not limited to on-call incident escalation and off-hours maintenance work.
• Occasional travel to various FBIN locations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or related field is preferred; 2-year degree may be considered with appropriate experience.
• FCP/CCNP or higher preferred.