Network Engineer IV

Job Description: Tell us about your department: Core network and automation. We maintain the data center networks, including routing, switching, load balancing, and DNS/DHCP systems. In addition, we automate common tasks in the data center network space

Project Description: This would be a supplemental engineer to help implement, troubleshoot, and automate common network tasks.

Position Summary/Job Description: Sr network engineer:

• Deploying, and maintaining high-performance and scalable network solutions for data centers, including core switches, edge routers, load balancers, and other related network equipment.

• Implement network automation solutions to streamline repetitive tasks such as configuration management, provisioning, and monitoring of data center networks.

• Work with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ansible) to develop solutions that simplify network management and increase operational efficiency.

• Assist in capacity planning, evaluating network performance, and identifying areas for improvement to scale the data center network.

• Stay current with emerging technologies in data center networking, including SDN, and network automation, and evaluate how they can be implemented to enhance network operations.

• Leads and effectively triages complex issues across systems in many environments, primarily in the data center. Takes the lead in root cause analysis.

• Active participant in planning activities and contributes to strategic planning.

• Assisting staff/principal engineers

Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• Cisco routing/switching - 5+ years experience

• Routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF) - 5+ years experience

• F5 load balancing - 3+ years experience

• Infoblox DNS/DHCP - 3+ years experience

• Automation (CI/CD pipelines, ansible, Terraform) - 3+ years experience

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

• Firewall experience

• Ability to read and interpret packet captures