Sr Network Engineer

Company: CTI Education Group
Location: Jersey City
Posted on: April 1, 2021

Job Description:

Job Description Description Primary Responsibilities:

• Hands-on technical Manager of Network Operations consisting of 15 highly skilled network engineers responsible for configuration, management, sustainability of day-to-day operations, and support of current and next generation global networking infrastructure with careful regard to availability, connectivity, performance, and security
• Provide white-glove service to all users, plan, organize and manage all day-to-day operational activities, provide stable network infrastructure for global offices, including incident / change management, VIP escalation, network health monitoring, capacity planning, and resolving support tickets
• Key escalation point for network operations, technical guidance, deployments and migration of new buildouts and upgrades of network devices with an end-to-end approach based on defined standards and best practices, including creation of configurations, associated approval requests, implementation of the changes, and user acceptance
• Analyze and troubleshoot escalated issues from Tier II, train and provide technical training to Tier I & II engineers. Act as Tier III support for firewalls, load balancers, routing, and switching. Efficiently troubleshoot and prioritize issues and create a culture of root cause analysis
• Plan changes on network devices/systems, with an end-to-end approach based on engineering defined standards and best practices. This includes creation of configuration and associated approval requests, implementation of the changes, and user acceptance.
• Work independently and as part of a team to urgently analyze and troubleshoot escalated issues from Tier II, train and provide technical training to Tier I & II Technician; Act as Tier III support for firewalls, load balancers, routing, and switching. Efficiently troubleshoot/prioritize issues and create a culture of root cause analysis. Qualifications Required Background:
  • Solid network engineer with fundamental Python scripting and Ansible network automation experience
  • 7+ years hands on experience with various Cisco platforms including but not limited to Nexus Series (5k/7k/9k), Catalyst Switches, ISR Routers, and network management tools
  • Mastery of enterprise routing and switching including (but not limited to): BGP, MPLS, EIGRP, OSPF, VPC, 802.1Q, ether-channel, STP, RSTP, VTP, QoS, ACLs, VxLAN
  • Extremely proficient with network troubleshooting tools (sniffer, syslog, NetFlow, TCPDUMP, Wireshark etc.)
  • Significant experience with Palo Alto firewalls and F5 load balancers
  • Hands-on operational experience and management of AWS/Azure services, including AWS Direct Connect experience strongly preferred
  • Experience working with large trading floor technologies, managing, troubleshooting and deployment of large-scale multicast architecture for trading applications
  • Understanding of optical networking, SD-WAN and different WAN automation technologies
  • Expert level Knowledge of wireless technologies standards and protocols. Cisco WLAN and ISE specific experience desired
  • A good understanding of remote access technologies including Citrix, IPSec VPN, and Direct Access to provide internal users with anytime anywhere accessibility to business applications
  • Manage multiple projects simultaneously and can adapt to changing business needs
  • Work well with cross functional global and remote teams
  • Self-disciplined, self-starter who can provide leadership and mentor others while resolving complex incidents and delivering projects
  • Ability to analyze complex problems, propose effective solutions and understand and apply business vision and direction
  • Working knowledge--of ITL processes, specifically Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management
  • Ability to be called upon 24/7 in case of emergencies
  • Experience implementing multitenant datacenter and user environments to provide appropriate separation for multi-organization technology deployments and separation
  • Experience implementing large scale Network Access Control in an enterprise environment
  • CCIE and CCNP Certifications considered a plus

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