Senior Network Engineer

• 5-8​ years of experience in traditional WAN and LAN using Cisco products (routing, switching, wireless) and protocols (such as HSRP, VPC, Port-channels, Spanning Tree, VTP).

• 5-8 years of experience with routing protocol (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), QoS and traffic shaping.

• 3-5 years with SD-WAN technologies.

• 5-8 years in a complex, distributed and multi-OS environment with overlapping technologies.

• 5-8 years experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama, and GlobalProtect VPN client.

• AWS, Azure or other cloud infrastructure experience.

• Excellent customer service-oriented attitude and desire to support end users with issues of varying degrees of complexity.

• Excellent interpersonal skills.

• Thorough understanding of troubleshooting complex systems and services from client through network/connectivity and server/storage.

• Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support and guidance.

• Ability and motivation to mentor staff members and share knowledge.

• Effective written and verbal communication skills.

• Desire and ability to document configurations in support of a larger team.

• Experience with monitoring software such as Nagios or other network monitoring products.

• Experience with Cisco ACI (Application Centric infrastructure) technologies and Nexus 9K

• Experience with TACACS and Cisco ISE.

• 5+ years of experience in load balancing technologies particularly F5 products, IPAM and Visio.

• Bachelor’s degree in the IT field or professional certifications from Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5.

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