Bridge Technologies and Solutions
WAN Engineer
Bridge Technologies and Solutions, Dallas, Texas, United States, 75215
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for design and development of network services and technologies to meet client and business unit requirements. Primary objective is to identify optimal networking and communications solutions that deliver long term capabilities, capacity, reliability and resiliency for the business units and clients to successfully maintain and grow their business operations.
RESPONSIBILITIESThis role involves understanding of the client and business unit requirements, and designing and deploying optimal networking and connectivity solutions that enable clients and business units to achieve their operational and business goals.Required to prepare recommendations and supporting details for formal proposals for network connectivity and configurations.Day-to-day interaction with telecom providers, equipment suppliers and 3rd party network vendors, to engage their technical resources to perform tasks.Role sometimes requires scheduling and attendance on overnight maintenance windows.Resource can expect to routinely be called upon to analyze and interpret traffic and utilization of services on network connections.Participation in disaster recovery exercises, pre-production certification testing and troubleshooting events is expected.Coordinate with internal operations to meet and exceed data communications project expectations (including but not limited to engineering/development, certifications testing, Network and IT Operations, capacity planning and production readiness.Accountable for resolving all project level, cross-functional, partnership issues and escalations.Manage partner/client expectations for data communications connectivity and related services to company products and applications, throughout project(s) lifecycle. Client expectations include functionality, cost, delivery schedule, support readiness and relationships (usually working directly with senior level technical resources, project managers and business decision makers at client).
FUNCTIONS
High organizational skillsAbility to handle multi-tasks and meet deadlinesAbility to work efficiently and productively with minimal direction or guidanceCapable of exercising discretion and independent judgmentAbility to handle extremely confidential information in a professional mannerAbility to communicate, both verbally and written, with a high level of confidence
EXPERIENCE
5+ years hands on experience required in design, planning, coordination and implementation of technology projects among multiple telecom and equipment vendors and customers.
SKILLS (Required)
Hands on experience in layer-3 protocols (EIGRP, BGP), route distribution, route filteringHands on experience in layer-2 protocols (Spanning-tree, HSRP)Hands on experience with VRP, NATHands on experience with various VPN technologies (DMVPN, IPSEC)SDWAN knowledge, automation scripting (yaml,
ansible , python)
Skills (Desired)
Firewall knowledge
RESPONSIBILITIESThis role involves understanding of the client and business unit requirements, and designing and deploying optimal networking and connectivity solutions that enable clients and business units to achieve their operational and business goals.Required to prepare recommendations and supporting details for formal proposals for network connectivity and configurations.Day-to-day interaction with telecom providers, equipment suppliers and 3rd party network vendors, to engage their technical resources to perform tasks.Role sometimes requires scheduling and attendance on overnight maintenance windows.Resource can expect to routinely be called upon to analyze and interpret traffic and utilization of services on network connections.Participation in disaster recovery exercises, pre-production certification testing and troubleshooting events is expected.Coordinate with internal operations to meet and exceed data communications project expectations (including but not limited to engineering/development, certifications testing, Network and IT Operations, capacity planning and production readiness.Accountable for resolving all project level, cross-functional, partnership issues and escalations.Manage partner/client expectations for data communications connectivity and related services to company products and applications, throughout project(s) lifecycle. Client expectations include functionality, cost, delivery schedule, support readiness and relationships (usually working directly with senior level technical resources, project managers and business decision makers at client).
FUNCTIONS
High organizational skillsAbility to handle multi-tasks and meet deadlinesAbility to work efficiently and productively with minimal direction or guidanceCapable of exercising discretion and independent judgmentAbility to handle extremely confidential information in a professional mannerAbility to communicate, both verbally and written, with a high level of confidence
EXPERIENCE
5+ years hands on experience required in design, planning, coordination and implementation of technology projects among multiple telecom and equipment vendors and customers.
SKILLS (Required)
Hands on experience in layer-3 protocols (EIGRP, BGP), route distribution, route filteringHands on experience in layer-2 protocols (Spanning-tree, HSRP)Hands on experience with VRP, NATHands on experience with various VPN technologies (DMVPN, IPSEC)SDWAN knowledge, automation scripting (yaml,
ansible , python)
Skills (Desired)
Firewall knowledge