Senior Staff Network Engineer

Nielsen is looking for a Senior Staff Network Engineer to join our global network team. This talented individual will assist in the ongoing creation and support of our global network environment and related infrastructure, including the administration, maintenance, support, and continuous future growth of a network that handles traffic from millions of diverse clients, customers, and end-users daily.

Responsibilities

• Ongoing administration of our global network, including switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless access points. Environments included branch offices, data centers, and the cloud.
• Collaborate with team members, other infrastructure teams, and developers to design, plan, and deploy new network solutions and environments
• Collaborate with security team to investigate and respond to security incidents.
• Actively support and manage services such as DNS, DHCP, IPAM, load balancing, and VPNProvide escalation-level network support in both specific and collaborative troubleshooting sessions
• Prepare network documentation such as network designs, root cause analysis, maintenance plans, and industry-standard network reports
• Flexibility and experience working in a rapidly changing environment which can move from planned and project-based work to troubleshooting or break/fix work
• Be prepared to lead local country build out of large office network footprint 

Requirements

• Proven years of experience as a network administrator or engineer
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or the equivalent in work experience and industry certifications
• Strong understanding of the issues and challenges around managing and administrating high-availability, high-demand network environments
• Working knowledge of common networking topologies and architecture. Strong core knowledge of enterprise and data center principles.
• Familiarity with agile methodologies such as Kanban or Scrum, CI/CD philosophy, and the roles that network infrastructure has in the process
• Strong knowledge of routing and switching protocols, including BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP
• Familiarity with using network tool suites to manage configuration and performance
• Experiences with public cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, or GCP is a plus
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and projects

Diversity Here at Nielsen, we believe strongly in the value of diversity and creating supportive, inclusive environments where our colleagues can succeed. As such, Nielsen is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We welcome applications from people that are excited to work for us, regardless of their background - so please get in touch! Nielsen provides equal employment opportunities to applicants and employees without regard to any protected characteristics under local law.
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