Sr Network Engineer

Position Overview:

Tenaska is a leading energy company with a proven track record of excellence and innovation. As we continue to leverage cutting-edge technology to enhance our operations, we are looking for a talented Senior Network Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team. This role will play a pivotal part in designing and driving Tenaska’s network strategy and systems, collaborating with various business line technology functions, and ensuring cybersecurity requirements are met.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S.  The Company is not able to take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time for this position or commit to doing so in the future for individuals with current authorization to work via, for example, CPT or OPT, and would need sponsorship in the future.

Job Summary:

This role offers a unique opportunity for a motivated, positive, and organized professional to join a dynamic and respected organization. As a member of the growing Network Architecture team at Tenaska, a leader in the energy industry, you will play a critical role in ensuring the security, availability, and performance of our network infrastructure with an emphasis on Data Center and Security technologies. The ideal candidate is an experienced individual with a proven track record of delivering results in a rapidly changing environment who is excited about technology and ready to build cutting edge solutions from the ground up. You will play a pivotal role in the design and deployment of new network architectures across the Corporate Network. As a mentor and expert in your field, you will inspire confidence and foster growth within the team while contributing to Tenaska’s success.

Essential Job Functions:

• Ensure network deployments and changes align with approved security and routing protocols.
• Deploy, manage, and support remote network hardware and services, including on-premises and cloud connectivity, switching, routing, firewalls, SD-WAN, load balancing and wireless technologies.
• Utilize deep expertise in Cisco routing and switching techniques within a Campus or a Data Center.
• Provide excellent customer service, time management, interpersonal, organizational, and communication skills in a collaborative environment.
• Possess strong experience with standard networking protocols, including but not limited to BGP, OSPF, VXLAN EVPN, IPSec, RSTP, MSTP, HSRP, MACsec, SNMPv3.
• Independently design and implement enterprise-level networking solutions with a focus on data center and/or network security technologies.
• Schedule and coordinate with colleagues, remote site personnel, and partners for necessary network migrations, installs, upgrades, and changes.
• Maintain and ensure proper creation, configuration, and monitoring of all points within the network, with a particular emphasis on routing optimization.
• Design and implement automation for predictable, repeatable tasks, particularly in Cisco security and traffic management.
• Assist with 24/7/365 on-call duties, responding to and resolving production-down issues for Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco routers and switches, Cisco Secure Firewalls, and Meraki environments.
• Provide technical leadership to other members of the network infrastructure team on cross-impacted projects, particularly those involving routing strategies.
• Document and maintain comprehensive documentation of network infrastructure, with detailed notes on routing protocols and configurations.

Education/Experience/Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in MIS / CS or related is required
• Minimum 5 years of experience supporting mixed vendor environments (Cisco, Palo Alto, Azure, Meraki Networks, F5, Fortinet) utilizing dynamic routing protocols, firewalls, and load balancing technologies
• Relevant professional and/or military experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree
• CCNP Data Center, CCNP Security, F5-CA, PCNSA, JNCIA or equivalent level certification required

Ideal Experience:

• Experience with switching, firewalls, and advanced routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS), and technologies such as IPSEC VPN, DNS, DHCP, and Spanning-Tree
• Experience on the any or some of the following platforms: Thousand Eyes, Nexus Dashboard Fabric Controller, Palo Alto NGFW and Strata Cloud Manager, Prisma Access, FortiGate NGFW
• Experience with Kubernetes Cilium
• Industry Professional-level or expert certifications from Cisco, F5, Palo Alto, Juniper or Fortinet such as CCIE, F5-CTS, FCX, FCSS, PCNSE highly desired

At Tenaska we care about the wellbeing of our employees and their families. That’s why we offer our employees a comprehensive benefit pa