Principal Network Engineer X 2

Overview

STONE Resource Group is partnered with a leading company in the Telecom Industry looking to expand their current team by adding a Principal Network Engineer to their organization. This is a fully onsite, contract to hire opportunity that is perfect for someone looking to expand their skillset, work in a leadership capacity, and work with advanced technologies! You will have the ability to directly influence change within the organization. If you are looking for this type of challenge and career advancement, submit your application today for consideration!

Project Overview/Impact on the Organization

Our client is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to design and engineer effective and scalable network systems that ultimately contribute to the success of our 5G network. The successful candidate will participate in evaluation, testing, design, and deployment of foundational network elements for a nationwide greenfield 5G network buildout. He or she will provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work, including functional subsystem upgrades for mission-critical network devices and services and strategic upgrades to the network.

Job Responsibilities

• Review architectural requirements and provide analysis for network and services specifications, network design in a multi-VRF environment;
• Design, plan, and implement complex LAN/WAN/RAN configurations at nationwide scale in a service provider network;
• Effectively communicate engineering solutions through detailed high- and low-level diagrams;
• Provide advanced expertise in the planning and development of network test, validation and integration plans on projects and assurance of network integrity;
• Provide hands-on implementation and support for 24x7 production network operations.

Must-Have Skillsets

• 15 or more years of professional experience in large enterprise or carrier space;
• Service provider networking;
• MPLS and/or segment routing
• eGP and iGP in a multiprotocol environment
• Multi-VRF environments with traffic shaping and QoS
• High availability, failover and redundant configurations
• Experience with network security design considerations
• Network configuration automation (scripting with Python and/or Bash);
• Network deployment and operations automation (Ansible, Zero Touch Provisioning);
• Experience with data center fabric design and deployment

Nice to Have Skillsets

• Professional networking certifications – CCNA/CCNP/CCIE or equivalent;
• Public cloud certifications – advanced networking, cloud Network Engineer or equivalent.