Sr. Associate, Network Engineer

Over the last 20 years, Ares' success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values - Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self-Aware, Trustworthy - and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee-focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high-performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.
Job Description
We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our network infrastructure team to help us design, build, and operate those networks. Candidate must have strong hands-on technical expertise in modern datacenter and architectures. Candidates must be able to translate business requirements into technical architectures, data models and designs. Candidates should have excellent client facing skills and be able to articulate technical issues. Experience with clients in the financial services domain is a plus.
Primary Functions & Responsibilities

• Lead the design effort in support of the company's wired and wireless infrastructure throughout our global footprint of data centers and offices.
• Optimize stability, availability, reliability, and performance of networking infrastructure.
• Lead or assist in resolving escalated incidents from our production support team.
• Collaborate with internal groups to achieve successful delivery and avoid/mitigate adverse outcomes.
• Define key reporting metrics to communicate deployment and network successes to the organization and executive management.
• Work with leaders and end-users across disciplines to select appropriate technologies to meet core organizational needs.
• Lead configuration and deployment of enterprise tools shared across the org, including initial and ongoing support.
• Actively communicate current issues, upcoming changes, etc. to staff in an easy-to-understand manner.
• Find opportunities for improvement within the network and make recommendations based on best practices and observations.
• Develop and train staff on best practices in their use of technologies.
• Develop and maintain support maintenance, procedural, and other documents for use by all levels of support personnel, as well as end-user documentation.
• Support, install, and configure network technology for data centers, remote offices, and remote employees.
• The ability to work in a team or work independently on complex tasks with minimal technical and management guidance is required.
• Must be able to meet deadlines and deliver status updates to project team on a frequent basis.

Qualifications
Education:

• BS CS or Equivalent

Experience Required:

• 8+ Years' Experience in Network Engineering
• CCIE level or Equivalent Experience
• TCP/IP, BGPv4, EIGRP, OSPF, Route Redistribution, HSRP, STP, LACP, VPC, NAT, DNS, and Packet capturing tools
• Software Defined Networking Experience. Cisco ACI and Cisco DNA center.
• Meraki Wi-Fi experience preferred
• Data Center architecture design.
• Knowledge of user authentication, authorization and Identity management products and technologies such as: 802.1x, TACACS, Radius, and Cisco ISE
• Experience with programming/scripting languages or tools used to automate networks (e.g., Python, Postman, API).
• Strong understanding of 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax, RF, and WLAN fundamentals.
• Knowledge of identity, access concepts and technologies to secure production and corporate access, such as SSO and SAML a plus
• Basic cloud deployment and operations (AWS/Azure) a plus
• QoS (including voice prioritization) a plus
• Knowledge of Palo Alto PAN-OS a plus

General Requirements:

• Excellent communication skills with the ability to work as part of a team or individually as required.
• Solid documentation skills with high attention to detail.
• Experience with taking projects from planning through to completion.
• Capacity to juggle a mixture of break-fix and project work, managing individual priorities and deadlines.
• Willingness to occasionally work flexible hours, or out of hours as required.
• Travel 0-25%

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