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University of Massachusetts Medical School

Sr Network Engineer

University of Massachusetts Medical School, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, us, 01546


GENERAL SUMMARY OF POSITION:

The Senior Network Engineer is a technical specialist role in the Network administration area supporting local and wide area networks in a multi platform, protocol, and operating system environment.

MAJOR RESPONSIBILITIES:

Under the direction of the Director of Network and Telecom, provides third level support to end users

Plans, procures, installs and maintains local and wide area networks in a multi protocol environment

Reviews products and recommends acquisition or modification of hardware, software or contract services

Monitors network functions and evaluates operations and network performance

Involved in the implementation and maintenance of major subsystems

Acknowledge and resolve user service requests utilizing the service request management system

Frequently contributes to the development of new theories and methods

Develops resolutions to complex problems that require frequent use of creativity and judgement within defined policies

Contributes to the development of organizational goals and objectives

Represents the organization as the principal customer contact

Often performs project leadership duties

Performs other duties and responsibilities as required

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Information Management Systems, or equivalent

7+ years of related work experience including project management

Excellent oral and written communication skills

Valid driver’s license and dependable transportation.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

Public Cloud provider experience specifically AWS and Azure and ways to interconnect from premises data centers to the cloud via AWS Direct Connect and Azure Express Route

Azure cloud experience in the following areas: software defined networking, VNETs and VNET peering, private and service endpoints, network insights, application gateway and load balancers, Azure NSGs and Firewalls

Experience with automation integration, NetOps integration and associated principles and solutions

Solid understanding of basic IP addressing constructs such as CIDR IP ranges and subnetting

Understanding of basic Layer 2 technologies such as VLANs, IEEE 802.1.q, LACP protocol, and switch to switch port-channel configuration and setups

Extensive routing protocol configuration experience with designing, configuring and troubleshooting complex BGP configurations in a JunOS (Juniper Networks) environment

Candidate should have an understanding of how to create advanced BGP routing configurations that will take advantage of various techniques to provide optimal outbound and inbound Internet routing, servicing multiple geographical locations, each with their own access

Some operational experience with OSPF routing on Cisco Systems, Juniper Networks and Dell-OS 10 switching platforms

Administration or setup of Palo Alto Networks firewalls with a deep understanding of PanOS, and Panorama policy management

Candidate should be comfortable with testing and working in a virtual or physical lab to test all network configurations before deployment

Expected to produce meaningful documentation using tools like Visio to provide final configuration artifacts for turnover to an operations team

Advanced troubleshooting skills for resolving routing issues. Also, some knowledge and use of Wireshark to capture and analyze packet flows for the troubleshooting of application or network performance issues

Some experience with Infrastructure as Code (Ansible, Terraform, Python) is a plus

Knowledge of implementation and troubleshooting of Layer 2-3 switching technologies from Cisco Systems, as well as Checkpoint firewall configuration and setup

Working knowledge of F5 load balancer configuration and management with interaction of DNS components

Experience with the implementation and configuration of Enterprise class firewalls from Palo Alto Technologies. Understand firewall integration, rule creation, and safeguard policy configuration

Demonstrate a clear understanding and expertise for deployment of networking technologies in a virtualized environment and be able to present these concepts in conjunction with the Medical School’s Networking team

Working knowledge and use of network troubleshooting tools to solve complex network problems from SolarWinds Orion and Riverbed’s Application Performance Management systems

Palo Alto, CISCO CCNP, Checkpoint CCSA

Proven ability to create network designs with associated Bill of Materials and configuration

Development of network product roadmaps and features

Creation of product comparison tables as supporting details for recommendations

Contribute to and define requirements for network projects

Remain in touch with new and current vendor solutions, services and products

Deliver professional services such as network assessment, migration, and troubleshooting for net new and changes to various network environments

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