Greetings!
Role: Sr Network Engineer
Location: Irving, TX ( Hybrid onsite)
Duration: C2H
Key Responsibilities:
Senior Network Engineer with expertise in Networking who will be responsible for implementing highly scalable solutions on the Microsoft Azure Public
Cloud and On-Premises environment. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining our organization's network
architecture to ensure optimal performance, security, and scalability. As a member of the team, you will work alongside reliability teams to ensure site
reliability and that all releases seamlessly move from development through staging and into production.
The Day to Day:
- Oversee the planning and execution of network projects, provide technical leadership to the team, and collaborate with cross-functional
departments to meet business objectives.
- Design, implement, and manage complex network solutions to support business operations.
- Responsible for safeguarding an organization’s computer systems and networks from security breaches, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities.
- Lead network architecture planning, including hardware and software upgrades.
- Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting network issues and implementing solutions.
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure network security measures are in place.
- Conduct regular network performance monitoring and optimization.
- Mentor and train junior network engineers to enhance team capabilities.
- Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for network improvements.
- Develop and maintain network documentation for reference and compliance purposes.
Position Requirements-What we are really looking for:
- Proven experience as a Senior Network Engineer or similar role in a large-scale environment. Experience in the planning, design, deployment
and support of LAN/WAN/ and IP architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of networking protocols, hardware, and software solutions including deploying network services and protocols such as
TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, LAN Switching Technologies, Next-Gen Firewalls (Fortinet preferred), and Load Balancing (F5 preferred), etc.
- Extensive experience in traditional route/switch, Wireless technologies, VPN, SSL, DNS, DHCP, and ISE.
- Conduct network security assessments & recommend remediation actions. Hands-on experience with network security. Design and maintain
security controls for network infrastructure. Enhance security monitoring and detection systems to identify abnormal behavior.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead projects and teams effectively.
- Experience utilizing a public cloud solution (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Prior experience working with industry network tools: monitoring (Splunk, NetScout, Zabbix), management (Prime, ISE, Aruba Central),
inventory management (Netbox, IPAM), and DNS solutions.
- Scripting experience with scripting languages (python, GO, PowerShell) and tools (versioning, GitHub) as well as experience utilizing REST
APIs, JSON, and YAML.
- Experience with multiple hardware/software platforms such as:
- Cisco
- Fortinet
- F5
- NetScout
- Nutanix (or other hyper-converged technologies)
- VMWare and Acropolis Hypervisors
- Strong teamwork skills, ability to learn quickly, excellent written and spoken communication.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies.
- Monitor and Troubleshoot network performance and integrity. Resolve escalated issues by troubleshooting both cloud and local infrastructure.
- Automate tasks and assess their effectiveness.
Education and/or Experience:
- 4+ years of network architecture design and/or solution engineering
- 2+ years of network design or administration involving cloud infrastructure [AWS, Azure, Google, etc.]
- 2+ years of scripting or coding experience with one or more languages
- 8+ years of relevant IT experience in large/complex IT architecture environment
Thanks& Regards,
K Hemanth Kumar | Sr IT Technical Recruiter | Kairos Technologies Inc
Job Types: Full-time, Contract
Pay: $140,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year
Schedule:
- 8 hour shift
Work Location: In person