Cloud Network Engineer

What you will do

• Development of solution designs, implementation strategies, and project execution of network-related technology and services.
• Focus on continuous improvement to drive higher efficiency and performance of network services.
• Works closely with architecture team and ISSO to define best practice network strategy for cloud computing and Azure environments.
• Design and engineer technology platforms for the Enterprise infrastructure environment that support corporate, Backoffice and customer applications.
• Stay abreast of new solution offerings and the ability to communicate the business benefits of these solution offerings to leadership.
• Provide network input/consulting as required by the business.
• Must be comfortable in addressing critical incidents. Must be willing to accommodate occasional after-hours participation in the remediation of P1 events.
• Lead network Proof-of-concept efforts to review, analyze and provide direction for technology refresh and new technology purchases related to networking.
• Collect, analyze, and report on technology performance, with a focus on performance improvements and system efficiencies - maintain KPIs.
• Document enterprise policies, standards, and position statements for new and existing technologies.
• Balance and prioritize project work against work needed for other approved projects and operational support.
• Provide capacity planning to sustain and improve network platform availability and efficiency.
• Coordinate service/support needs with vendors, application support teams, and internal teams through effective partnership, collaboration, and communication.
• Develop, define, and publish best practices and processes for the IT infrastructure based on industry and vendor published best practices.
• Is self-motivated and requires little/no coaching or oversight.
• Participate in data center consolidation and cloud migration efforts.
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for network and cloud automation.

What you will bring

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or similar field, or 5 to 8 years experience, or combination of both.

• 5 to 8 years experience with:

• Co-location data center networking

• Virtualized data center technologies including Hyper-V networking

• Wired and wireless data, voice, and video technologies

• Enterprise local and wide area network design, including router and switch configuration and troubleshooting of network problems.

• Experience in network monitoring, debug, and administration tools.

• Familiarity with Azure concepts and cloud networking

• Deep understanding of application integration and service stack running on virtualized compute platforms

• Experience working with firewall and load balancer configurations for presenting external access to single tenant applications.

• Experience with the following technologies:

• WAN Technology: MPLS, MetroE, CoS, SDWAN, ExpressRoute

• Routing: BGP, OSPF

• Routing Hardware: Juniper MX

• Switching: Leaf/Spine Architecture, STP, PVST, RPVST, 802.1q, VLAN, VTP, OTV, VXLAN, CDP, LLDP, vPC, VDC, LACP, VSS, QoS, FCoE, NPV, Fast/Gigabit/10Gigabit Ethernet, PoE, Port Security, SPAN

• Switching Hardware: Juniper, Cisco Catalyst, Ruckus

• Firewall/Security: Access lists, DMZ, NAT, PAT, VPN, IPSec, IPS, IDS, active/standby, Palo Alto Virtual Server, Palo Alto Wildfire, Palo Alto Panorama, Palo Alto UserID, Palo Alto GlobalProtect, Azure NSG

• Firewall Hardware: Palo Alto

• Load Balancing: VIP, Pool, SSL Certificates, SNAT, F5 (iApp, iRules, custom health check, persistence)

• Load Balance Hardware: F5 Big-IP LTM, F5 vCMP

• Wireless Hardware: Ruckus/CommScope

• Network Tools: Python, SNMP, Netflow, Solarwinds Orion, Wireshark, syslog-ng, Visio

• Network Services: SMTP, DNS, SSH, NTP, DHCP, RADIUS, LDAP, Cisco ACS, TACACS+, Active Directory

• Operating Systems: Cisco IOS, Cisco NX-OS, PAN-OS, Junos, Apstra

• Cloud: Azzure

• Infrastructure-as-Code tools: Terraform