Network Engineer

Richmond, Virginia

Virtual
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Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Strong experience in routing & switching, Wi-Fi to support our datacenter and campus networks
  • Provide day to day operational and project support Arista LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure
  • Reviews network designs for an EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment, upgrades, enhancements or improvements as required
  • Develop and maintain a network infrastructure monitoring and alerting strategy
  • Support interoperability between Arista and other networking solutions including Cisco and Palo Alto
  • Assist with configuration buildouts including creating network provisioning using industry standard automation toolsets
  • Continuously improving processes and documentation for network assets
  • Participate in troubleshooting incidents and coordinate with vendor support as required
  • Build and maintain partnership with external vendors, including Arista TAC
  • Translate complex business requirements and objectives into leaf-spine network solutions
  • Continues technology, security, and networking training to maintain expertise
  • Supporting business services by completing requests and resolving incidents in documented SLA timings; as well as following all change management processes
  • Ensuring security solutions, policies, and procedures are sufficient to meet and respond to threats to our network infrastructure
  • Other duties as assigned
Required Skills and Experience:
  • Network Industry Certification preferred
  • Experience with Arista (preferably) or other commercial Wi-Fi platform
  • 10+ years' working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks.
  • Working knowledge of leaf-spine architectures
  • Advanced knowledge in the following areas: Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, QoS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and 802.1X
  • Centralized network management automation mindset is highly desired
  • Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills
  • Excellent written skills and desire to document network infrastructures
  • Experience with working in an ITIL or similar service operational environment
Desired Skills:
  • Arista CloudVision experience
  • Palo Alto firewall experience
  • Citrix NetScaler or load balancing experience
  • Zscaler Secure Private Access experience
  • Nutanix Flow or virtual machine micro-segmentation experience preferred
  • Microsoft Azure networking knowledge a plus
  • Experience working with a Network Access Control solution
Date Posted: 01 April 2025
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