Senior Tech Specialist – Core Networks (Switching & Routing)

Job Description

* 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.)