Senior Tech Specialist- Core Networks (Switching & Routing)

Possess excellent work ethic and communication skills and enjoy working in a geographically diverse environment.

• Driven desire to understand existing infrastructure with an eye on improvement with new emerging technologies.

• Passionate about learning network architecture and design network solutions, problem solve, support a global team and partner with the business

• Performance and uptime are your key metrics, and you always have security in mind

• You never shy away from a technical challenge and look to improve efficiencies in process and automation

• WiFi, On-prem, public cloud, SDWAN, and MAN/WAN/LAN network experience

Responsibilities

• Maintains a thorough knowledge of existing network and/or security hardware and software in use to provide third-tier technical and administrative support and provide complex internal analysis and support of the network and/or security infrastructure.

• Acts as the technical interface with vendors and other external stakeholders and reviews/makes recommendations on the network and/or security service / maintenance arrangements.

• Proven technical troubleshooting and performance tuning experience.

• Reviews technical documentation of supported environments to ensure that documentation is accurate and up to date - firm believer in documentation.

• Install and configure WAN and LAN hardware to include voice, video, and data cable systems. Develops system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation.

• Develops risk management and mitigation strategy. Maintain compliance with QA standards as well as ensuring service performance indicators are met or exceeded.

• Works individually and actively participates on integrated teams to support the customers deployable networks supporting multiple mission partners at multiple locations

• Analyzes designs, develops, and/or maintains both hardware and software needed for network communications including local area networks (LANs) wide area networks (WANs), the internet, intranets, and other data communication systems.

• Communicates complex concepts and data effectively and creatively (both written and oral) across multiple organizations, both internal & external, and with executive company and customer management.

• Performs design, engineering, implementation, maintenance, and upgrade of the local area networks (LAN)s and/or wide area network (WAN), and/or security infrastructure.

• Network design, engineering, and implementation (Advanced Level)

• Creation of network related Bill of Material (BOM) equipment lists and costing.

• Ability to work weekends and evening hours as needed

• IT audit, network, and system security

Essential Career Experience

• Relevant Cisco/Palo Alto Network Support, engineering, and Administration

• Possesses experience with most common network components to include routers, switches, firewalls, protocols, VoIP, DNS, remote access, VPN, routing, and switching. Also has knowledge of TCP/IP routing technologies including OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP, in addition to knowledge of applicable business lines/industries.

• Technical experience in Active Directory and Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques

• Deep understanding of layer 2/layer 3 networking details, like arp, mac-address-table, VLANs, trunking, port-aggregation, VRFs, VXlan, VTP, static routing, OSPF/BGP routing, SIP, upgrade processes

• High level of expertise in Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco firewalls, particularly Firepower OS and management tools, Cisco routers, and Cisco switches

• Five years of network management systems including PRTG, SolarWinds, Logic Monitor, Cisco DNA, and Palo Alto Panoram

• Experience with CISCO and Extreme network solutions

• Experience with Network analysis tools (Solar Winds Network Management, PRTG, SolarWinds, Logic Monitor, Cisco DNA, and Palo Alto Panorama etc.)