**How will you make an impact?
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This role will focus on engineering reliability, performance, monitoring, automation, configuring and maintaining existing network components, implement network upgrades, handling incidents, change requests & report on the reliability of the network.
**What will you do?
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- Responsible for supporting and optimizing a large scale, complex, high performance network, across our global footprint
- Independently research and provide both business and technical solutions based on and related to customer needs and specifications and deploy them into our production infrastructure.
- Monitor, test, analyze and evaluate the existing network environment and optimize it based on resiliency, technological advancements and cost.
- Provide network engineering support of enterprise network devices and services.
Mainly comprising of Routers, Switches, Firewalls, VPNs, Load Balancers, SD-WAN, Cloud Connect and Network Management Solutions across LAN/WAN
- Drive quality into the metrics we report, including measurement of issues, network capacity, vendor equipment/failures analysis and network performance, as well as continual assessment of the quality and effectiveness of network monitoring and alerting.
- Provide lead support as an escalation for lower support groups; Provide guidance and direction to lower level engineers and engage external vendor support as required.
- Responsible for documenting system maintenance, enhancements and performance for effective network operations and management
- Participating in the on-call rotation with other members of the team to ensure support coverage for the global enterprise network.
- Mentoring and guiding junior members of the team
**How will you get here?
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- Combined minimum of 5 years BA/BS education and/or work experience in network engineering & operations.
- 5 - 7 years' experience in managing engineering & operations.
- Experience with Cisco, Arista, Fortinet & F5 products and services.
- Good knowledge of Networking and Security standards.
- Good knowledge of IT general practices and methods with specialized knowledge in multiple technical disciplines such as, cloud, telecommunications, network & automation.
- Working knowledge of SD-WAN management & troubleshooting.
- Understanding and experience of cloud computing specifically relating to networks, including AWS, Azure and GCS.
**Tool & Technology Skills**
- ** Telco**:WAN connectivity, LAN connectivity, Fixed Wireless, Colocation services, MMH, SMH, POPs, POTS,4G LTE, Dark fiber, T1, MLPP, DS3, OC, FE.
- ** OSS/BSS**:Service Now, Jira, TEM systems.
- ** Network**:SD-WAN, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, VPN, Firewalls, IPSec, Router, Switch, CPE, CO, Load Balancer.
- ** Product**: Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto, F5, Silver Peak/Velo Cloud, Arista.
- ** Automation**: Ansible, Python or domain specific automation platforms
**Knowledge, Skills, Abilities**
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, good customer service skills, and a proven ability to work with various teams.
- Must have strong troubleshooting skills related to firewall and Load balancers.
- Be a self-motivated, highly ethical individual with a demonstrated ability to work as independently as well as with a team.
- Develop, plan, direct and control strategic short
- and long-term operational objectives
- Develop relationships with our clients, engineering, and peer management teams, and effectively navigate across the organization
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