Senior Network Engineer

**This role is onsite 3 days per week in Raleigh, NC**

Top Skills:

1. 5+ years' experience hands-on experience in design, implementation, support, and management with enterprise networks. A large focus of this role will also be operational - serving as the technical SME & POC for all network related issues.

2. Palo Alto Firewalls - expert when is comes to deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting.

3. Expert knowledge and understanding of modern routers, switches, wireless access points, VPN concentrators, and modern load balancer/WAF solutions.

Description:

This company has a 5000-plus node network. There are approximately 1,000 workstations located on the state campus and the other 2,000 workstations located in 200 SDWAN-connected sites throughout the State of North Carolina.

A large variety of software and hardware products are used that allow agents, claims personnel, operations, personnel, and other departments to exchange information electronically. Senior Network Engineers' primary responsibility is to maintain and improve their networks at their locations including Corporate Offices, District Claims Offices (DCO), and Agent's offices.

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the overall company network infrastructure. The Senior Network Engineer is a resource to identify, analyze, troubleshoot, and correct problems relating to day-to-day network/security functions; assists in the planning, policies, and procedures to support the organization’s network infrastructure; manages the deployment, maintenance, support, and upgrade for all network related resources; develops plans and implements the overall strategic goals of the corporate network environment and its security infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

1. Responsible for planning, growth, design, and implementation of the corporate network infrastructure.

2. Responsible for managing, monitoring, and supporting for data centers, LAN, and WAN networks.

3. Provide analysis and resolution for complex network issues.

4 .Work with the other technology and infrastructure teams to lead problem-solving activities and identify required resources both internal and external necessary to resolve and drive problems to resolution.

5. Act as a technical lead for the network team, providing mentorship and training.

Skills:

Data center, Network engineering, LAN/SDWAN, Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Firewalls, WAF, load balancer

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Qualifications:

*A two or four-year degree in computer science or comparable work experience.

*A active OR expired CCNP OR CCNP level knowledge.

1. Experience in design, implementation, support, and management with enterprise networks.

2. Expert knowledge in data center technologies such Cisco and/or Arista is desired.

3. Expert knowledge in a campus LAN/Wireless, and SDWAN networks.

4. Expert knowledge and understanding of modern routers, switches, wireless access points, network firewalls, VPN concentrators, and modern load balancer/WAF solutions.

5. Strong networking skills in networking protocols including Ethernet, TCP/IP, BGP EVPN VXLAN, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP and RIP.

6. Experience in cloud networking is desired.

7. Experience in network automation tools is desired.

9. Experience with storage, virtualization technologies, Microsoft Windows and Linux based server operating systems is preferred.

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.