Overview
GENERAL SUMMARY OF POSITION:
The Senior Network Engineer is a technical specialist role in the Network administration area supporting local and wide area networks in a multi platform, protocol, and operating system environment.
Responsibilities
MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Under the direction of the Director of Network and Telecom, provides third level support to end users
- Plans, procures, installs and maintains local and wide area networks in a multi protocol environment
- Reviews products and recommends acquisition or modification of hardware, software or contract services
- Monitors network functions and evaluates operations and network performance
- Involved in the implementation and maintenance of major subsystems
- Acknowledge and resolve user service requests utilizing the service request management system
- Frequently contributes to the development of new theories and methods
- Develops resolutions to complex problems that require frequent use of creativity uses judgement within defined policies
- Contributes to the development of organizational goals and objectives
- Represents the organization as the principle customer contact.
- Often performs project leadership duties
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as required
Qualifications
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management Systems, or equivalent
- 7+ years of related work experience including project management
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Valid driver’s license and dependable transportation.
DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- Knowledge of implementation and troubleshooting of Layer 2-3 switching technologies vendor products from Cisco Systems well as Checkpoint firewall configuration and setup
- Knowledge of Cisco wireless, ISE and Prime
- Experience with implementing and supporting wireless infrastructures from large Enterprise vendors utilizing Cisco Systems equipment
- Good understanding of best practice Data Center network support
- Expert level knowledge of routing protocols to include OSPF, and BGP with an overall understanding of routing concepts / design
- Working knowledge of F5 load balancer configuration and management with interaction of DNS components
- Experience with the implementation and configuration of Enterprise class firewalls from Checkpoint Technologies. Understand firewall integration, rule creation, and safeguard policy configuration
- Demonstrate a clear understanding and expertise for deployment of networking technologies in a virtualized environment and be able to present these concepts in conjunction with the University’s Networking team
- Working knowledge and use of network troubleshooting tools to solve complex network problems from Solarwinds Orion and Riverbed’s Application Performance Management systems
- Working knowledge of Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching platforms
- Working knowledge of Brocade Extension switches
- CISCO CCNP, CheckPoint CCSA