Job Title: Cloud Network Engineer
Experience: 5+ Years
What you will do
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- Development of solution designs, implementation strategies, and project execution of network-related technology and services.
- Focus on continuous improvement to drive higher efficiency and performance of network services.
- Works closely with architecture team and ISSO to define best practice network strategy for cloud computing and Azure environments.
- Design and engineer technology platforms for the Enterprise infrastructure environment that support corporate, Backoffice and customer applications.
- Stay abreast of new solution offerings and the ability to communicate the business benefits of these solution offerings to leadership.
- Provide network input/consulting as required by the business.
- Must be comfortable in addressing critical incidents. Must be willing to accommodate occasional after-hours participation in the remediation of P1 events.
- Lead network Proof-of-concept efforts to review, analyze and provide direction for technology refresh and new technology purchases related to networking.
- Collect, analyze, and report on technology performance, with a focus on performance improvements and system efficiencies - maintain KPIs.
- Document enterprise policies, standards, and position statements for new and existing technologies.
- Balance and prioritize project work against work needed for other approved projects and operational support.
- Provide capacity planning to sustain and improve network platform availability and efficiency.
- Coordinate service/support needs with vendors, application support teams, and internal teams through effective partnership, collaboration, and communication.
- Develop, define, and publish best practices and processes for the IT infrastructure based on industry and vendor published best practices.
- Is self-motivated and requires little/no coaching or oversight.
- Participate in data center consolidation and cloud migration efforts.
- Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for network and cloud automation.
What you will bring
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or similar field, or 5 to 8 years experience, or combination of both.
- 5 to 8 years experience with:
- Co-location data center networking
- Virtualized data center technologies including Hyper-V networking
- Wired and wireless data, voice, and video technologies
- Enterprise local and wide area network design, including router and switch configuration and troubleshooting of network problems.
- Experience in network monitoring, debug, and administration tools.
- Familiarity with Azure concepts and cloud networking
- Deep understanding of application integration and service stack running on virtualized compute platforms
- Experience working with firewall and load balancer configurations for presenting external access to single tenant applications.
- Experience with the following technologies:
- WAN Technology: MPLS, MetroE, CoS, SDWAN, ExpressRoute
- Routing: EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, HSRP/VRRP, VRF, route redistribution, EVPN
- Routing Hardware: Cisco ASR, ISR, Juniper MX
- Switching: Leaf/Spine Architecture, STP, PVST, RPVST, 802.1q, VLAN, VTP, OTV, VXLAN, CDP, LLDP, vPC, VDC, LACP, VSS, QoS, FCoE, NPV, Fast/Gigabit/10Gigabit Ethernet, PoE, Port Security, SPAN
- Switching Hardware: Juniper, Cisco Catalyst and Nexus families, Cumulus, Ruckus
- Firewall/Security: Access lists, DMZ, NAT, PAT, VPN, IPSec, IPS, IDS, active/standby, PaloAlto Virtual Server, PaloAlto Wildfire, PaloAlto Panorama, PaloAlto UserID, PaloAlto GlobalProtect, Azure NSG
- Firewall Hardware: Palo Alto
- Load Balancing: VIP, Pool, SSL Certificates, SNAT, F5 (iApp, iRules, custom health check, persistence)
- Load Balance Hardware: F5 Big-IP LTM, F5 vCMP
- Wireless Hardware: Cisco WAP's, Cisco 5508 WLC, Ruckus/CommScope
- Network Tools: Python, SNMP, Netflow, Solarwinds Orion, Wireshark, syslog-ng, Visio
- Network Services: SMTP, DNS, SSH, NTP, DHCP, RADIUS, LDAP, Cisco ACS, TACACS+, Active Directory
- Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS, PAN-OS, Hyper-V, Junos, Apstra
Infrastructure-as-Code tools: Terraform
