Senior Network Specialist

A minimum of 7-10 years experience deploying networking devices within either a 24x7 datacenter environment or global enterprise. Experience to include routing, switching, load balancers, WAN optimization and security layer.

Cloud Networking - A minimum of 3 years of cloud networking experience with AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI.

SD-WAN - A minimum of 5 years experience with SD-WAN technologies including Cisco Viptela, Meraki, or comparable technologies.

Routing Protocols - 7-10 years experience with common routing protocols used in a network environment to include; BGP, OSPF, EIGRP

Data Center Switching - A minimum of 7-10 years of data center switching environments including Cisco and/or Arista series.

Branch Networking - A minimum of 7-10 years of enterprise across branch networking environments with a focus on Cisco, Aruba, and Meraki wireless office based solutions.

Wireless - A minimum of 510 years of enterprise wireless experience across various environments such as office, manufacturing, and distribution center networks.

Excellent communication skills and experience working with internal and external customers as a service delivery provider.

Equipment / Cloud Env. - have diverse experience required in the design, implementation and troubleshooting on a wide range of environments and technologies to include - but not limited to:

Requirements

As a minimum you must have:

Proficient project management skills displayed through successful implementations, completing assignments, meeting timelines, and keeping within budget

Strong preference for 10/40/100 Gigabit Ethernet experience with both dark fiber rings and data center backbone connectivity

WAN Physical Connectivity - Experience with edge router WAN circuit (Ethernet and Wave/DWDM, OC192, OC48, OC12, OC3, T3,) provisioning, configuration, and troubleshooting.

Routing Protocols - 7-10 years experience with common routing protocols used in a network environment to include; BGP, OSPF, EIGRP

Configuring and troubleshooting QOS for both WAN and LAN networks.

A minimum of four years experience with debug race option commands and their impact on the production environment.

Monitoring - strong familiarity with SNMP, Netflow, Syslog and packet captures.

Experience with emerging technologies such as Trill, Datacenter Bridging, VPLS, OTV, etc

Directly applicable professional certifications are preferred - CCNP, CCDP, CCIE RS

In depth knowledge of UNIX, Windows networking technologies and deployment methodologies.

Internet Hosting - Internet BGP design and implementation with redundant ISP providers. BGP load balancing, and CIDR advertisement, and prefix filtering via regular expressions.

Datacenter Hosting - Equinix or similar managed environment experience including an understanding of Cloud-to-OnRamp solutions and interactions globally.

Familiarity with VoIP and collaboration platforms - Cisco, Avaya, or similar

Although not necessary, it would be nice if you have:

Cloud - AWS, Azure, OCI, GCP

Cisco Viptela SD-WAN

Routers - Cisco ASR and CiscoISR Series Routers

Cisco Access Switches

Meraki Access and Security Layer devices (ie MS225, MS390, MX250, Z3, MR56)

Nexus Series at least 7k and 5k, with 2k and 1000V viewed as favorable

Firewall Platforms (Palo Alto, Fortinet)

LoadbalancerLoad balancer - F5

Certifications/Licensure

CCNP, CCDP, CCIE RS certifications viewed favourably

Full time