Job Description
Job Title: Network Engineer – Principal Data Network
Overview:
We empower our employees to think and create differently; to build beyond the possibilities of today.
Responsibilities:
Join our team of highly technical professionals implementing the latest in technologies, ranging from data center next generation core switching and routing thru private data center interconnects thru wide-area networks to user wired and wireless access. Work on our network of over 2500 network devices and have an opportunity to make a difference.
This position will provide top tier engineering and troubleshooting for the DISH corporate data network devices and services. Must be a detail oriented and highly organized individual. Best practice network engineering and strategic vision in the design, planning and implementation of technical products and network services. Strong Cisco background necessary. Requires a bachelor’s degree in a related area, as well as CCIE certification (Route-Switch or Data Center) or 6-8 years of experience in the field or in a related area.
- Provide advanced technical leadership for complex project work
- Supply advanced technical direction and leadership to the junior members of the data networking team
- Work with various teams to gather requirements, create specifications, and design solution for network projects
- Provide hands-on implementation and ongoing care and maintenance for network projects
- Develop implementations in lab environment to prove out design specifications according to a test and validation plan
- Maintaining daily operational responsibility for reliability of the DISH enterprise network
- Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes via tools such as Solarwinds Orion and Cisco Prime Infrastructure applications
Network Operations:
- Follow necessary processes to ensure enterprise network systems and services meet an operational uptime of 99.95%
- Conducts advanced enterprise-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits on a regular basis
- Maintaining daily operational responsibility for reliability of the DISH corporate network
- Manages enterprise network systems and services to an operational uptime of 99.95%
- Responsible for design and implementation of data network services and performs network testing and evaluation testing on a regular basis
- Conducts advanced enterprise-level performance tuning as well as network performance audits on a regular basis
- Monitors ongoing availability of network services and processes.
- Extensive knowledge on Cisco routers and switches (Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, NX-OS)
- Validate that customer network configurations are functioning per designs by validating log flows, event threshold settings, and alarm notification settings
Qualifications:
Skills and Qualifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer/Network Engineering or related field; six to eight years as a data network specialist in a medium to large enterprise network; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Advanced knowledge of network monitoring and performance tools such as SolarWinds Orion NPM, Cisco Prime Infrastructure, Wireshark, etc.
- Strategic thinker, strong interest and aptitude in collaborative big picture, enterprise-wide network infrastructure roadmaps.
- A commitment to improving processes and to customer satisfaction.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Results oriented team player who will work towards meeting team commitments and ability to work within a cross-functional team.
- Practical experience related to LAN, WAN, WLAN, VLAN, DMVPN, VPN, and high-availability/multipath/redundant routers, switches and firewalls in large data center environment
- Support network protocols such as: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, VLAN, TCP/IP, MPLS, STP, IPv4, sub-netting, routing
- Familiarity with these technologies is a plus: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto firewalls, Cisco ISE, networking for F5 LTM/GTM, and networking for IPS/IDS
- General technical knowledge of Cisco networking technologies and platforms to include Nexus, ASR, ISR, Catalyst, ACI/APIC
- Experience with network configuration automation (Scripting with Pearl/Python/Bash), SD-Access, and DNA Center a plus
- Experience with AWS infrastructure a plus
