Sr. Network Engineer - Charlotte, NC or Cincinnati, OH

Job Description

Role: Sr. Network Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC or Cincinnati, OH Applicant must be able to commute into the assigned Duke office two times a week

Duration: 12 + Months

Responsibilities

This is an SD-WAN deployment project.

Creation of Design Guides, Position Statements, Process Guides, Reference Diagrams, and Print Templates necessary to effectively deliver and troubleshoot substation and VPN solutions

Design diagrams and validate the design.

Define and document technical requirements for new capabilities

Work with business partners and equipment providers to build and certify solutions that comply with all functional, operational, and business objectives.

Develop proposals and communicate outcomes that address business value/risk and gain partner approval

Collaborate across the IT organization to influence, guide and define the best methods and procedures to position their service(s).

Troubleshoot complex routing designs, LAN switching environments, VPN, and firewall policy

Work in an Agile engineering environment on cross-team-based projects and assignments.

Participate in weekly team Collab and Telecom TRIP calls to give/solicit feedback on new solutions or challenges

Develops positive working relationships to effectively coordinate work activities. Demonstrates effective oral and written communication skills. Maintains accurate records and files

Supports the company's goals and represents the company positively and professionally

Manages personal self-development and maintains current industry knowledge to leverage more effective or emerging technologies. Provides mentoring and training to junior staff

Basic/Required Qualifications

• Must have SME-level experience with BGP and MPLS.
• Must have extensive Route and Switch experience.
• Experience with Cisco Viptela.
• Bachelor’s degree from a four-year college or university plus a minimum of five years of experience in Information Technology with at least four years of design and support of Cisco Systems’ products.
• In lieu of a degree, a minimum of ten years of experience in Information Technology with at least five years of design and support of Cisco Systems’ products.
• Experience with network capacity planning, network security principles and general network management best practices.
• Ability to work well within a team, good interpersonal relational skills
• Effective verbal & written communication
• Experience in coordination with multiple groups, companies, and people simultaneously
• Demonstrated ability to work productively with little direct supervision.
• Demonstrated organizational and time management skills
• Ability to effectively prioritize multiple tasks
• Willingness and ability to learn new skills
• Adherence to Change Management Practices
• Strong interpersonal skills to support successful performance in a team environment
• Ability to resolve complex issues that require significant freedom of action and sound judgment with little management oversight.
• Ability to research independently, multi-task, and meet deadlines under tight timeframes.
• Ability to deal with a variety of individuals from various socio-economic, cultural, and ethnic backgrounds. Demonstrate ability to build working relationships with different levels within the organization.
• Develops and applies telecom technologies for the business.
• Superior working knowledge of telecommunications systems, associated safety policies, practices, work procedures, and regulatory requirements.
• Superior interpersonal skills (listening, conflict management, approachability, negotiations) with the ability and willingness to share information and transfer knowledge to others.
• Ability to present information on technically complex subjects in an understandable manner in both oral and written form to business clients and senior management.

Desired Qualifications

• Cisco Certifications: CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP
• Agile Certification: Kanban Management Professional, Scrum Master
• Experience with the following network hardware/software solutions:
• Cisco routers, switches, wireless controllers, APs, phones, ASAs, ACS, ISE, DNA, ACI, and OTV
• Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama
• Advanced working experience with network technologies and protocols such as spanning tree, TCP/IP V4/V6, SIP, ARP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, DMVPN, Link Aggregation, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP/VRRP/GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, Multicast, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, Cisco ASRs/Cisco Nexus/Cisco IOS, HTTP/s, MPLS, IKEv2, IPv6, Route-maps, SNMP, ACL, Palo Alto Firewalls, Opengear T