Network Engineer

Hybrid 3 days per week in Columbia

130-145K

Day-to-Day

Insight Global is seeking to hire a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to support an international electronics company. This role would sit in Columbia, MD with a hybrid schedule (3 days in office, 2 days remote). This role will be supporting and maintaining the Americas Data Center Network Infrastructure while providing follow-the-sun support to the customer’s global IT infrastructure.

Maintaining Network & Network Security Infrastructure

Provide complete operational life-cycle and project based support client infrastructure

Participate in 24/7 follow-the-sun operating model along with EMEA and Asian region teams to support client infrastructure.

Create and maintain SOPs, reference standards, architecture diagrams and other supporting documents as required.

Continue to identify and implement regular operational activities that can be automated and or transitioned to Level 1 support after adequate documentation and knowledge transfer for swift issue resolution and better customer experience.

As part of a larger team, maintain network infrastructure that meets and beats the established OLAs on both availability and performance.

Follow client’s established ITSM standards while resolving incidents, problems & service requests and while making changes to Infrastructure.

Continuously assess the technology and service risk within Americas Infrastructure and make improvements to mitigate those risks.

Work independently, within a team environment to achieve business objectives.

Minimum Domestic and International travel would be required

Must-haves

Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or similar; or equivalent years of experience

3-5 years of 24/7 operational experience working on production infrastructure (on-call support)

5-7 years of hands on experience administering and architecting the following technologies

Switching and Routing (LAN and WAN) protocols (VRF, EVPN, VXLAN, BGP, HSRP, LACP etc.)

Network switches and routers - Cisco / Arista

Aruba Edge Connect/ Silverpeak -SDWAN solution(s)

Wireless

Experience creating and managing Ansible playbooks to automate Network configurations and deployments

Working knowledge of:

IP Address Management (IPAM)

GIT

Python Scripting and Linux OS

Experience creating SOPs and architecture documents

Plusses:

ITIL certified

ITSM - ServiceNow