Description

Key Responsibilities

• Partner with Infrastructure leadership, IS teams, and business units to engineer, plan, and deliver network solutions aligned with reliability, performance, and security requirements.
• Analyze business needs, gather technical requirements, and design end-to-end network architectures.
• Install, configure, troubleshoot, and support routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and related network technologies.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation, including network diagrams, models, procedures, and solution designs.
• Participate in customer and internal IT meetings to qualify technical requirements and propose appropriate solutions.
• Create CAPEX requests and track hardware and software procurement.
• Lead or mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance across projects.
• Support network automation, standardization, and monitoring initiatives.
• Act as an escalation point for complex network issues.
• Support after-hours work, including nights and weekends, during implementations or outages.

Required Experience & Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Network Engineering within an enterprise environment.
• 5+ years of experience leading technical projects or mentoring junior engineers.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts, design principles, and enterprise architectures.
• Hands-on experience with:
  • Routers, switches, and spine/leaf architectures
  • Network virtualization and segmentation
  • Storage networking and zoning
  • Load balancers and network security solutions
• Experience with SDN technologies, including:
  • Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
  • VMware NSX (preferred)
• Strong knowledge of Network Security, including:
  • Palo Alto Networks firewalls
  • VPNs, IDS/IPS, and Web Application Firewalls
  • Cisco security solutions and Cisco ISE
• Experience with Cisco technologies, including:
  • Cisco Routing & Switching
  • Cisco Nexus & UCS
  • Cisco WAAS / WCCP
• Experience with F5 LTM/GTM.
• Proven experience with QoS, especially for voice and video traffic.
• Knowledge of encryption architectures and network isolation strategies.
• Experience in troubleshooting hardware/software issues and network monitoring tools.
• Scripting and automation skills are a plus.
• Excellent communication and customer service skills.

Preferred Skills & Certifications

• Cisco certifications (CCNP, CCIE) – Plus
• Palo Alto certifications – Plus
• Experience with network automation and configuration management tools

Key Skills

Education

Bachelor's degree