Senior Network Engineer/Architect
Location: Atlanta
Posted on: October 20, 2024
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Job Description:
Senior Network Engineer/Architect Job
The ideal candidate for this Senior Network Engineer job will have
solid network design experience. This Senior role will be THE
Senior Technical person on the team. They are using Juniper
Firewalls, routers and VPN, but they are constantly assessing their
environment so need someone that is open to change and would be
comfortable when they move to more of a cisco environment. So Cisco
product experience is highly desired along with:
• Understand scalability, architecture but ok with being a hands on
engineering
• Leadership skills/ Mentorship to more junior team members
• Will lead some projects on occasion so any type of Project
Management experience is great-even if on a very small scale (1-2
people)
• No Data Center technologies- separate group handles everything
Data Center related so Load Balancer experience isn’t required
• Security background would be good to have (PCI Compliance is
something they are going through now)
• Communication skills are going to be very important, as well as
ambition.
• Career potential to go into management or technical expert type
of role whichever they would prefer
• Scalability is important
• 50/50 Split between Architecture vs. Engineering at first but
will move more down the architecture path
• Any IPS and IDS experience would be great to have
• Split Tunneling, Ongoing Configuration
The APG IT Senior Network Engineer role provides thought and
technology leadership across a variety of network platforms. The
role will focus on architecture and design of high quality network
solutions.
You will be responsible for ensuring that the overall solution
design meets business requirements, conforms to industry best
practices, and is a cost effective solution. Work closely with
management and project stakeholders across the organization. Has
the ability to work collaboratively and effectively with all levels
of management and staff within the organization.
Responsible for creating clear and maintainable designs,
configuration templates, and reviewing the implementation plans of
team members.
Expected to ensure long-term strategic solutions are effectively
architected, and implemented. High degree of interaction with
onsite/offsite vendor architects and engineers.
AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITIES:
Network Architecture
• Maintaining a current understanding of industry best-practice
architecture and considerations
• Participating in enterprise-wide design and architecture
discussions as a trusted expert
• Development and maintenance of long-term architecture for network
systems
• Identification of network metrics that can be tracked and
optimized over a systems lifecycle
• Validation that solution designs conform to reference
architecture
• Providing APG a competitive advantage with high performing
technology solutions
Network Engineering
• Development and maintenance of service design and configuration
templates
• Creation of implementation and support documentation for external
teams
• Taking engineering-level ownership of full system lifecycle
(Proof-of-Concept, Design, Validation, Quality Assurance, and
Optimization)
• Ensuring solution designs are value-oriented
• Continually providing input towards system and process
improvements
Leadership
• Reviewing technical designs and configuration templates for other
team members
• Prioritizing technical solution needs
• Providing technology, solution and design training
Program/Project Management
Responsible for directing work efforts to achieve the
following:
• Determines network solutions to meet pre-defined business
requirements, functional designs, and architectural design
documents for diverse population of unique end users
• Develops conceptual architecture, flowcharts, diagrams to
illustrate sequence of steps required for technical
implementations
• Participates in project team meetings and provides estimates for
network task completion
• Manages & prioritizes team’s workload to meet specified due
dates
• Provides status on assigned tasks
Network Management
Delivers reliable and quality infrastructure into the production
environment, while meeting the following objectives:
• Ensuring streamlined network software releases on a predetermined
agreed to schedule
• Providing operational support and oversight for network
monitoring toolsets
• Providing technical leadership, clarity and direction for on-site
resources and vendor teams
• Auditing deployed systems to ensure compliance with technical
standards
Experience Requirements:
• 7+ years leading complex network software and hardware
implementation solutions
• 7+ years of experience with network or systems engineering
• 5+ years of experience with VPN technologies (site-to-site,
DMVPN, Pulse/Anyconnect)
• 5+ years of experience with using IP routing protocols, including
OSPF and BGP
• 5+ years of experience with using LAN switching technologies
• 5+ years of experience with network security (incl. firewalls,
IPS, content filtering, encryption)
Awareness of the following components would be beneficial:
• Datacenter and infrastructure operations
• Load balancing, software-defined networking, Network Access
Control (NAC)
• Experience with PCI and PII compliance
Educational Requirements:
• BS degree in computer related field or equivalent work
experience
• Vendor certifications a plus (CCNP/JNCIP, CCIE/JNCIE
Preferred)
• Information security certifications – Nice to have
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