Senior Network Engineer

About the Position

At Affiliated Monitoring, our success depends on our ability to respond to customer alarms and provide life-saving services in a timely manner. Our networks and telecommunications systems are the lifeblood of our company and our ability to service our customers.

We have an immediate need for a Senior Network and Telecommunications Engineer with at least 8 years of hands-on experience with a multisite Cisco network infrastructure.

The right candidate will be self-motivated, enthusiastic and work well with our existing talented IT professionals. They will have the ability to lead projects and present solutions to leadership.

This role is ideal for a strong Network Engineer that enjoys working for an IT centric company with the newest technology, to provide thought leadership in technologies such as enterprise networking, cloud engineering and the emerging Internet-of-Things.

The Sr. Network Engineer will manage many technical areas with a focus on the following:

Cisco switches, routers and firewalls

Fortinet firewalls and SD-WAN

Kemp load balancer

Internet and WAN circuit topology and design

High availability network design, configurations and implementations

Ubiquiti wireless access points and controllers

Telecommunications and the migration to cloud

Duties and Responsibilities

50% - Solution Design and Project Delivery

Support, install, and improve existing network infrastructure

Gather requirements from business stakeholders

Design and architect network solutions

Research new technologies and methodologies

Develop and document specifications, researching vendors and solutions for comparison, and estimating initial and recurring costs for these solutions.

Help the business leverage the Internet-of-Things for strategic growth.

25% - Incident/Problem Management of Network Systems and Technologies

Act as an escalation point for other members of IT

Own and manage multiple incidents

Work with 3rd party service providers to address outages and disruptions

Respond to business-critical emergencies, both during and after business hours

Determine action plans to address issues, communicating proactively with service users and stakeholders.

25% - Network Management & Administration

Develop and implement procedures for management, including reporting of performance KPI’s

Perform regular compliance audits of systems

Develop network lifecycle plans

Ensure networks are secure and compliant

Document and maintain the current environment for operational and planning purposes.

Manage and negotiate with key network and telecommunications vendors

Requirements

8+ years’ experience in the IT industry designing, implementing, and supporting a multisite network infrastructure

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is required

Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE) a plus

Awareness and familiarity with ITIL/SDLC concepts and principles

In depth and hands on experience with:

Fortinet and Cisco ASA/Firepower firewalls (CLI/ASDM), Nexus and Catalyst core and edge switches, ISR routers

Kemp load balancers

Content Filtering (Barracuda and Fortinet)

BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, VxLAN, IP SLA, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VRF, Spanning-Tree, 802.1p/q, vPC and other high availability configurations and advanced network implementations

Firewall ACL, NAT, Policy and Route based L2L VPN configurations, SD-WAN

Nagios, PRTG, Netflow, SNMP and other network monitoring tools

Troubleshooting IP/TCP/UDP using tools/techniques such as wireshark, Cisco CML/VIRL, Traceroute, Firewall Packet-tracer, Syslog (Sumo Logic)

Network Taps and Packet Brokers

Ubiquiti WLAN APs, controllers, 802.1x

Visio, Excel, Word, Confluence, etc.

Understanding of carrier transport technologies such as MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, SDH

Understanding of traditional analog and digital telecommunications

Linux and open-source experience a plus

Affiliated Monitoring is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Affiliated provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.