Position: Sr Data Center Network Engineer
Location: Onsite 3 days per week in Worcester and surrounding data center locations
Duration: Direct Hire/Perm
Pay Range: 120-130k
Major Responsibilities:
- Acts as a technical leader and mentor to up and coming team members.
- Effectively articulates recommended solutions to project teams, management, and executive leadership.
- Takes lead on large projects, initiatives, and complex changes.
- Performs platform-specific technical tasks including upgrades, installation, and configuration and installation of patches and fixes to minimize risk and service disruptions.
- Performs day to day engineering and operations tasks on Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE) and Access Control System (ACS) to include installation, upgrades, configuration, and troubleshooting.
- Helps in the prevention and remediation of cyber security attacks.
- Resolves availability, capacity, and performance issues.
- Ensures that system improvements are successfully implemented and monitored to increase efficiency.
- Participate in risk assessments of various requests.
- Works with engineers to ensure security compliance. Scripts and automates various tasks related to network and security support.
- Performs problem analysis and documentation, root-cause analysis, and create incident reports.
- Performs detailed troubleshooting for complex operational issues.
- Work with the team to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.
- Performs tasks relating to business continuity products, including patching, health checks, audit review and repair, configuration modifications.
- Ensure service performance meets or exceeds business expectations and is delivered in accordance with SLAs.
- Performs hands-on work to install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot the network hardware, software, and other components required for connectivity.
- Perform hands-on work to maintain products, services, protocols, and standards that meet network industry standards.
- Perform new and existing equipment, hardware, and software upgrades. Execute the design concepts, implementation plans, device setup and configuration settings, and maintenance plans. Performs troubleshooting.
- Stays up to date on network specific skills and practices.
- Supports users by a variety of methods, providing technical expertise to users and/or written means.
- This position is required to participate in a 24 x 7 on-call rotation every 13 weeks
Required experience:
- Minimum seven (7) years of related network engineering and security experience.
- Must have experience with HSRP, 802.1Q, Spanning Tree, IP subnetting, IP routing including OSPF, BGP, EIGRP.
- Design and deploy datacenter network, storage, and compute.
- Experience in logical design models (L2/L3, vPC, vPC+, VDC, FEX, datacenter zones, OTV, fabric path, spanning tree, port channels, VTP, VLANs, physical cabling).
- Experience designing and troubleshooting of GLBP, HSRP and VRRP.
- Experience designing and troubleshooting of AAA, ACLs, DHCP snooping, dynamic ARP inspection, IP source guard, port security, TrustSec
- Working technical knowledge of network control protocols (QOS, PoE, NTP, DHCP), network management protocols (CDP, FTP, TFTP, SNMP) and security protocols (SSH, HTTPS, IPSec). - advanced skills here, dig in on this
- Strong knowledge IP communication and routing (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP).
- Understanding of WAN/LAN and transport technologies (Ethernet and MPLS).
- Experience with Cisco switches, routers, and wireless controllers.
- Experience with Checkpoint firewalls.
- Experience with F5 Big IP load balancers.
- Way to put multple servers behind single IP server
- Ability to use more
- Ask about this but not required
Preferred:
- Experience with Cisco Stealth Watch.
- Experience with Cisco ASA firewalls.
- Experience with Cisco Identity Service Engine.