Network Engineer

Richmond, Virginia

Virtual

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:

Date Posted: 13 May 2025