Our client is seeking an experienced Sr. Network Engineer.
This is a full-time direct hire permanent role in Southlake Texas.
4 Days will be onsite in the office and one day is work from home.
Position purpose
The Senior Network Engineer will provide leadership and guidance on all networking and data center designs and configurations across the enterprise. This role will provide technical support and administration of Enterprise-class security, network, and telecommunication services.
Responsibilities/Duties/Functions/Tasks
- Collaborate with IT management and department leaders to assess near- and long-term network capacity needs and provide resource requirements (people and/or technology) to support it.
- Design and deploy company LANs, WANs, and wireless networks, including core data center & site firewalls, routers, core & site switches, and other network hardware.
- Design, implement, and support firewalls, site-to-site VPNs, and remote-access VPN Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry.
- Configure networks to ensure their smooth and reliable operation for fulfilling business objectives and processes. Monitor network performance and troubleshoot problem areas as needed.
- Create and maintain documentation as it relates to network configurations/diagrams, network mapping, processes, and service records. (Cisco Smartnet renewals, inventory)
- Work in partnership with Security to address risks and maintain secure configurations.
- Work closely with management and team to gather input, diagnose root causes, and resolve problems
- Document processes to standardize end user experience.
- Proactively communicate with management throughout the problem resolution process.
- Interface with executives, engineers, and vendor technical support resources.
- Maintain network infrastructure and assist in root cause analysis of any network issues.
- Assist in developing a disaster recovery plan, assist in testing plan and update documentation as needed
- Recommend and justify any upgrades to infrastructure and systems
- Build, implement and document new locations according to industry best practices
- Participate in on-going certification and training opportunities.
- Provide mentoring and leadership to team members as appropriate.
- Leads and participates in teams to implement projects throughout the organization.
Additional Qualifications
- Excellent people skills
- Experience supporting networking, security, virtualization, storage software and hardware products, including:
- Experience supporting or troubleshooting in an IT environment (sever, application, or infrastructure).
- Experience multiple manufactures of network equipment, Fortinet, SonicWALL and HP
- Solid understanding of Cisco IOS, Windows Server Products, Unix, and Linux operating systems.
- Proven ability to diagnose, resolve, and document technical support issues.
- Strong written and verbal communications skills.