World Wide Technology is looking for a
Network Engineer. This job is part of WWT's Strategic Resourcing services. The candidate will be supporting a WWT customer and will be employed by one of WWT's preferred partners.
Considering only Green Card Holders & US Citizens and local to Colorado Spring, CO Role: Senior Network Engineer Location: Colorado Spring, CO Job Description Job Responsibilities: Global Network Operations: - Support, maintain and solution network global infrastructure (Data, Security) as part of the global network operations team, organized by region (APAC, EMEA & Americas) in a follow the sun model.
- Troubleshoot complex network (LAN, WAN, DNS, etc.) and firewall-related issues.
- Acts as primary point of escalation and subject matter expert for network operations in the EMEA region.
- Provide technical leadership and expertise to the global operations team, particularly in the EMEA region.
- Proactively pinpoint and eliminate network performance bottlenecks impacting business workloads and steadily improve network uptime.
- Proactively work to enhance network security and participate as needed in security incident response efforts as a network SME.
- Continuous improvements - participates in Problem Management, post-mortems, root cause analysis and accelerate/advance the resolution of incidents impacting critical production environments & prolonging escalations.
Global Network Solutions, Implementation and Technology: - Contribute in exciting global projects - site buildouts, new acquisitions, new technology deployments, technology refreshes, network security enhancements, etc.
- Acts as primary engineer for M&A implementation and tech refresh activities in Germany, one of two primary engineers for the rest of the EMEA region (some travel required)
- Potentially assist with business engagement/stakeholder communications for new deployments or continuous improvement initiatives. Candidate needs to be comfortable with collaborating closely with business stakeholders.
- Willingness to work flexible hours including weekend and holiday coverage for any operational or project needs.
- Travel as needed to support deployment activities throughout the EMEA region.
Job Qualifications We're looking for a diversely skilled, experienced network engineer with these qualifications:
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent certification and/or experience
- 5+ years of hands-on network and security experience.
- Cisco certification is a must, preferably CCNP. More advanced certification and/or security specialization are a plus.
- An ideal candidate will have experience or certification with some or all of the following technologies:
- SolarWinds
- Palo Alto Networks firewalls
- Fortinet firewalls
- Riverbed Steelhead
- Wan Optimization
- Performance Management
Cisco SDWAN
Cisco Wireless
Cisco Routing/Switches (Catalyst and Nexus platforms)
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
Cisco Identity Services Engine
Cisco DNA Center
InfoBlox DDI
A10 Load Balancers
Juniper Switches