Network Engineer
: Job Details :

*PLEASE NOTE that If you DO NOT live in the Houston, TX Metro, PLEASE DO NOT apply for this position; thank you...*

**Due to exposure to sensitive/privileged company data, this position requires US Permanent Resident (Green Card), or US Citizen work status**

***This position does allow remote/WFH work, 2 days a week. This position is located in the Houston, Texas Metro area, with a preference location in North Houston, as company/HQ for IT is near Bush Intercontinental Airport, TX (North Houston). Therefore, this person must live in the Houston, TX Metro area***

IS&T is helping the Mgr of Global Networks for a global Maritime Energy firm find a skilled Network Engineer. This is a key hands on technical position, as well as technical lead/mentor opportunity/role.

Advanced Skills/understanding in the following:

• Firewalls and Routers – Cisco (ASR, ISR), Palo Alto (VPN, ACLs, ACI (next gen), BGP, OSPF
• Switching – Cisco Catalyst, port config, STP, LACP LAGP
• SD-WAN - Palo Alto preferred
• ACI (understanding and skills, preferred, but not required)
• NAC - ISE, Clearpass, etc.
• Wireless: Aruba, Extreme Networks, etc.
• Network Monitoring: Solarwinds or similar
• Cloud Networking: AWS and/or Azure
• Load Balancer - NetScaler, F5 ADCC, VPX, A10
• Open DNS, Hybrid Environment, Automation (Ansible)
• Basic Understanding of the following:
• Microsoft Azure AD, DNS, DHCP, Office 365 Suite
• Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, VDI

Preferred but not required: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Notes from a detailed Teams meeting with the hiring authority, the Global Network Manager:

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“I now lead a global team of 5 Network Engineers, of varying levels of experience. I am seeking a Network Engineer to join our team. This Network Eng must have the ability to plan, design, engineer, and deploy network solutions.”

“This is a Project Based & Ops Network Engineer; work ratio is 50% Ops/50% projects. The Projects will be enterprise in scope, supporting a global network of ~180 global locations, and growing….”

The highest profile project is implementing SD-WAN solution for our global network. Palo Alto Prisma ION. This Network Eng will contribute ol lead, depending on experience. Design, engineer; with my input and support, of course - but I'd like this kind of project to excite this Network Engineer.

I foresee Palo SD WAN being a 2 -3 year project; a planned global deployment.

Another project example: design and engineer and deploy Aruba NAC solution

“another Project example: taking lead on doing a technical assessment, then execute activities for M&A migration of a newly acquired company, with 50 locations….”

“another example - assess our BGP and OSPF currently in place, decide what is working, what is not; and bring improvements, and standardization to BGP and OSPF routing config…

“another example: Our data centers are not up to current generally accepted standards. Do health check/analysis and design upgrade of DC's. We have 3 DC's located on east coast, and in Asia.”

“I need someone who is engaged, reliable, and has natural ability & inclination to be a solid contributor and/or lead on the team.

There is opportunity for both...

The reason for the opening is a recent Network Engineer departed us, who on paper looked like a rock star – held a CCIE certification, but did not have the real world experience or critical thinking skills to design and implement network solutions, configurations, direct installations; and define, document and enforce network infrastructure standards. Added to this, he was not showing up for meetings, calls, etc.”

I want someone who is reliable, and cares about their work product. The is the hole I am seeking to fill on the team.

Ideally, I'd like this person to be someone who wants to continuously update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintains a personal network/lab; and/or participants in professional organizations. Their head's in the game, so to speak…

This Network Eng will participate in an on-call rotation. On call consists of 1 week, every other month (every 8 weeks). May also receive a call from Junior staff when not on-call for escalation purposes. As a global company, the coverage required by Houston staff is minimal. Realistically, this will be a couple hours in the evening (CST) until APAC takes over, during the week. Then Friday after 5 PM, through Sunday evening until APAC takes over. Singapore is 12 – 13 hours ahead of us, depending on daylight savings time.

Lastly – this Network Eng will provide mentorship to junior member/s of the team.

Job Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree plus 7 years of experience, or 10 or more years of experience that is directly related to the job responsibilities.
• Certifications are a plus, but NOT required (CCNA, Network+, etc.).
• Ability to demonstrate troubleshooting skills, think analytically while working in a fast-paced environment and the flexibility to work with a wide range of technologies.
• Must multi-task and juggle multiple priorities while ensuring successful completion of all deliverables.
• Forward thinker who designs for current business needs as well as plans for scalability and longer-term solutions.
• Excellent written skills and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to travel globally, including Singapore/SE Asia, China, Eastern Europe, West Europe, etc. This would be infrequent; but is possible.

Interview process:

Initial Teams call with me, then a team call/interview with key team members; then a final interview with VP of Infrastructure. If this person makes it to final interview; it is likely get the offer.

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