Senior Network Engineer

Company: Solugenix Corporation
Location: Irving
Posted on: March 18, 2023

Job Description:

Senior Network Engineer (contract to hire)Job location: Irving, TX (open to Irvine, CA as well. Will allow 1 remote day per week as standard, with more flexibility possible depending on individual needs)Position responsibilities:The Sr Engineer, Network will be part of an industry leading IT team working in a fast paced environment. Under the guidance of the Sr. Manager, Enterprise Operations, this individual will be responsible for day-to-day tasks functioning primarily as mid to upper tier support through all phases of project and hardware lifecycle. The Sr Engineer, Network is also responsible for all aspects of the enterprise end-to-end network performance, with specific emphasis on ensuring efficient, reliable application and system services delivery to all constituents in the organization. Occasional travel to the datacenter.Participate in architecture reviews with IT groups, ensure supportability requirements and standards are followedDevelop new standards to maintain or improve stability and scalability of the current network environment with specific considerations to sustainability and future-proof design.Research and recommend innovative and where possible automated approaches for network and system administration tasks. Identify approaches that leverage existing resources and provide economies of scalAuthor documents that improve governance and librarianship with network-related architectures.Skilled in determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.Daily maintenance and administration of various systems such as core network, wireless, and remote office network infrastructures, in both production and development environments. Resolve or report critical issues to the Mgr, Enterprise Operations for resolution.Provide intermediate and advanced tier support for troubleshooting various network, application and systems trouble Support all network stall new and configure existing hardware in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements.Contribute to and maintain system standards.Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of network- related scheduled jobs.Perform network-related data backups and disaster recovery operations.Repair and recover from hardware, software, or circuit failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.General support of production systems as requiredApply patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities according to defined policies and standards.Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as requireAbility to mentor junior- and intermediate-level network administrators and engineers in all aspects of network design, operations, deployment, documentation and standards.Other duties and responsibilities as assignedRequired:10+ years of network administration experienceCCNP / JNCIP / JNCIS or relevant experienceAdvanced experience with Firewall, Routing, Switching technologies (eg. Juniper SRX and EX series products).Experience with SDWAN technologies (eg. Velo Cloud).Knowledge of POTS, DS1/T1, Fiber, GigE and 10GigE, VoIP, SIPExperience in various Network CLI languages such as Cisco, Juniper, HPKnowledge of OSI Model, IP addressing, subnetting, VLAN, routingKnowledge of 802.11x, 802.1x, RF designExperience with routers, layer 2 and layer 3 switchesExperience with Spanning Tree, VRRP, BGP, OSPF, iBGP, MPLS and VPN technologies.Experience with wireless networking, RF and heat mapping toolsExperience with network functions such as DHCP, DNS, AD, WINS and how to design and administer solutions as well as troubleshoot problems as they relate to the network operations.Experience with packet capture and analysis, span/mirror port strategy and related network monitoring tools.Knowledge of enterprise wireless technologies and termediate experience with Windows operating systems from 2012R2 to currentStrong skills in communication, both written and verbalBachelor (4-year) degree with a technical major such as engineering or computer science (or equivalent education and applicable work experience). In lieu of degree, +2 years of professional experience is required.Must be able to work evenings and weekends as needed.Preferred:Experience administering a distributed enterprise network, hosts and devices over more than 200 sitesExperience working with Extra Hop, Wireshark, and other network troubleshooting tools.Experience working with Juniper Networks SRX and EXExperience with Palo Alto firewalls.Experience Aruba Airwave, Central, and ClearpassExperience with large-scale network upgrade projects with national distribution.Experience with network oriented enterprise storage solutions (iSCSI, FCoE)MCSE / MCSP level certificationAWS Associate level certification - provided by Dice

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