Growing e-commerce company is seeking a Network Engineer to join their team for a permanent opportunity. In this role, you will implement, and support all aspects of corporate network infrastructure for a rapidly expanding geographic footprint. This person will be well-versed in firewall, switches, wireless, cloud networking and will be able to understand growing business demands. This person will provide the right technology solutions to solve immediate problems while futureproofing for resiliency and scale. A successful candidate will not be married to specific network platforms and will be able to apply network engineering thought leadership across multiple domains in partnership with a diverse set of vendors to meet business demand.
This role is remote but candidates must be local to Dallas and willing to travel 50% of the time.
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate existing network topology and identify opportunities for optimization and enhancement.
- Design and implement best-in-class network solutions for site expansion and core network operations.
- Manage WAPs across offices and warehouses.
- Own circuit procurement and delivery.
- Actively participate in new site network configuration.
- Define cloud network security architecture, principles, standards, and guidelines to be implemented.
- Hands on experience designing, implementing, and maintaining highly available and secure distributed system and the network architectures in the cloud.
- Provide support for new and existing network infrastructure.
- Evaluate and implement network monitoring and alerting solutions to create a high availability network service.
- Collaborate across all facets of IT including cybersecurity, end user support, and senior leadership on overall systems design and implementation for solutions that scale.
- Actively manage vendors and partners required in the delivery and ongoing operations of our network infrastructure.
- Document system configurations, diagrams, and standard operating procedures (SOPs).
- Travel for the purposes of physical network installation and configuration is required.
- 5+ years designing and implementing network solutions in structurally complex organizations.
- 5+ years performing vendor management and network solution evaluation across multiple network platforms – Fortinet, Aruba, Cisco Meraki, Ruckus, Extreme Networks, etc.
- Minimum 2 yrs. experience analyzing network flow logs (both NetFlow and VPC flow logs).
- Hands-on experience working with AWS services and tools such as: VPC, Direct Connect, IAM, and CloudWatch.
- Understanding of SDWAN Networks, including Azure/AWS connectors.
- Experience with implementation of multi-tenant cloud environments.
- Understanding of security protocols: SSL, IPSE, ACL, etc.
- Proven ability to negotiate with and manage third party suppliers and vendors.
- Demonstrated ability to plan and execute complex projects to meet time, quality, and budget requirements.
- Direct experience managing networks for offices and warehouses.
- Experience working in an Agile environment preferred.
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience (Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field).
- Network certification (CompTIA Network+, CCNA, Fortinet NSE, Aruba ACMP & ACSP).
- AWS, Azure and GCP certifications is preferred.
- Familiar with Software Defined Networking (SDN) and modern voice and data network architectures.