Principal Engineer - Route/Switch/Wireless

Job Title: Principal Engineer - Route/Switch/Wireless

Location: Block 23

What you'll do: As a Principal Engineer I you'll provide SME expertise in your respective domain as well as adjacent domains to ensure solutions are safe, secure, compliant and reliable. You'll identify development and support needs as well as take on large and complex design responsibilities supporting project tasks. You'll also engage with project and business sponsors refining requirements and objectives of targeted solutions. As a Principal Engineer I, you also facilitate dialogue and activities, and work to ensure team collaboration including teams outside of your domain. You'll develop effective presentations and narratives for IT audiences. In this role, you'll also develop the technical skills of one more junior engineers.

Team leads a small group of engineers, developing the engineering roadmap, defining workstreams, and delegation

Plan, design, deploy and mature network infrastructure, services, and processes to meet business needs

Deliver on-target KPIs for service availability, capacity, and performance management

Provide escalation-level support to our incident, problem, and change management processes

Collaborate with IT Governance during assessments and audits, providing evidence to support the control framework

Procure and evaluate bleeding-edge technology solutions and present recommendations

Lead complex engineering projects e.g., vendor-to-vendor migrations, mergers, and acquisitions

Drive standardization, reduce needless complexity, challenge convention

Create and maintain comprehensive documentation (HLDs/LLDs/SOPs/KBs)

Ongoing proactive maintenance of network infrastructure & services

Participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and maturity

Participation in operational support 24x7 on-call rotation as required

Other duties as assigned

What you'll need:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology is required, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience

8+ years overall IT engineering industry experience with evidence of ongoing personal development

Strong leadership, organization, and mentorship skills with demonstratable experience

Professional-level certifications with Cisco and/or other closely related technologies. CCIE level skills and experience is preferred

SME-level experience supporting the operation of mission-critical networks within finance, healthcare, or other highly regulated areas (HIPPA, PCI, SOX, CIS, NIST, ISO/IEC, etc.)

SME-level experience participating in solution design and project delivery

Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, OSI model, application flow analysis, IPv4 subnetting, IP routing, and switching protocols

In-depth experience with Cisco SDWAN technologies

In-depth experience with Dynamic Routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF and EIGRP

In-depth experience with Cisco Catalyst Center (DNA Center)

In-depth experience with designing and supporting highly available Wireless LANs

In-depth experience with Cisco Data Center Switch technologies such as Nexus, UCS Fabric Interconnect, VPC, OTV, etc...

In-depth experience with enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP address management

Hands-on experience deploying virtual infrastructure within Microsoft Azure or AWS public clouds

Scripting experience in Perl, Python, or PowerShell a plus

Extensive experience operating within an ITIL ITSM organization with a background using ServiceNow

Extensive experience with diagramming software such as Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart

Experience using tools such as SolarWinds, Netbrain, LiveAction, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana

Excellent communication skills, directly interfacing IT leadership, business stakeholders and technical teams

Benefits you'll love:

We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program. In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!

About the company:

Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank; Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.

Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information. Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and/or need an alternative method of applying, please email or call . When contacting us, please provide your contact information and state the nature of your accessibility issue. We will only respond to inquiries concerning requests that involve a reasonable accommodation in the application process.

Western Alliance Bancorporation