Sr Network Engineer

Overview

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.

Responsibilities

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

Qualifications

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s 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 driver’s 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 University’s Networking team

• Working knowledge and use of network troubleshooting tools to solve complex network problems from Solarwinds Orion and Riverbed’s Application Performance Management systems

• Working knowledge of Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching platforms

• Working knowledge of Brocade Extension switches

• CISCO CCNP, CheckPoint CCSA