Clearpoint
Senior Network Engineer
Clearpoint, Houston, Texas, United States, 77246
TITLE: Senior Network Engineer
LOCATION: Houston Texas
TYPE: Direct Hire
SALARY: $135,000 - $140,000
SUMMARY:
The Senior Network Engineer will work requiring a broad technical knowledge of multiple technologies or in-depth knowledge of one technology including its impact on other technologies. Position serves as a technical resource requiring independence in evaluation and providing consultative technology guidance and input to standard procedures. Escalates issues as needed to the next level of engineer job progression.
DUTIES:
- Owns the roadmaps for their area(s) of the infrastructure.
- Develops complex technology plans considering future business needs and the integration with the overall strategic technology plan
- Responsible for bringing new technical knowledge into the organization, raising the bar of technical expertise and providing input to strategic plans for the future of the infrastructure
- Maintains a moderately complex technology or multiple infrastructure technologies to assure operational availability and process integrity; documents maintenance activities; and maintains effective security/backup systems
- Monitors capacity, usage, and performance of assigned technologies; understands performance thresholds and analyzes and interprets data to determine issues; makes recommendations for changes and may implement agreed enhancements
- Troubleshoots most problems within assigned area, providing fault isolation and resolution that may be complicated by technology interdependency; analyzes cross-technology/platform issues; may serve as back-up for another technology
Implements disaster recovery and contingency plans; participates in the development of plans for own area
- Gains an awareness and contributes to redundancy (elimination of single points of failure) and high availability (services are operational across a WAN) through routine administration tasks and factoring concepts into project planning and coordination
- Identifies technical infrastructure requirements to support business needs; assess tradeoffs between business needs, technology requirements and costs; advises and presents resolution to client issues
- Interacts with major providers at the technical team level to address issues of limited scope; identifies SLA situations
- Designs, under direction of a senior colleague, basic infrastructure subsets; assists in the creation of technical standards
- Builds assigned infrastructure systems, requiring the need for subset integration and an understanding of its purpose; performs systems testing and installation of new systems.
- Performs quality assurance for subsets developed by less experienced colleagues
- Manages projects within assigned area, usually of moderate size and typically lasting a year or less (e.g., upgrading a new system); participates in the development of RFPs and RFIs, formulates project plan, goals, and submits for management approval; coordinates vendors, other technology colleagues, and relevant agency staff; tracks project progress
- Anticipates future needs within own area; leverages historical knowledge and anticipated future direction, researches technologies/products and their impact on the infrastructure, including vendor future direction and potential obstacles (e.g., technology change, support issues); prepares a preliminary evaluation of technologies/products and associated costs; develops and presents recommendations
- Provides technical guidance, trains, and may review the work of junior colleagues and peers to ensure work quality, assess problems, generate alternative solutions, and to contribute to departmental performance goals
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of relevant technical experience in engineer role or equivalent
- Expert knowledge in multiple architectural domains
- Expert knowledge in network design to include routing, switching, VoIP, datacenter and security
- Extensive experience in EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, DNS, SNMP, SSL VPN, IPSec, DMVPN, MPLS, HSRP, TCP/UDP, and other internet associated protocols
- Solid experience in network management, capacity planning, and redundant design for LAN / WAN / WLAN in a global enterprise infrastructure
- IP addressing to include subnetting, route aggregation, and BGP route maps
- Design, architect, implement and managing Nexus 9k and 7k multiple VDC deployment
- Cisco Leaf and Spine experience preferred but not required
- Advanced level Cisco FTD configuration and management experience preferred but not required
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields
LOCATION: Houston Texas
TYPE: Direct Hire
SALARY: $135,000 - $140,000
SUMMARY:
The Senior Network Engineer will work requiring a broad technical knowledge of multiple technologies or in-depth knowledge of one technology including its impact on other technologies. Position serves as a technical resource requiring independence in evaluation and providing consultative technology guidance and input to standard procedures. Escalates issues as needed to the next level of engineer job progression.
DUTIES:
- Owns the roadmaps for their area(s) of the infrastructure.
- Develops complex technology plans considering future business needs and the integration with the overall strategic technology plan
- Responsible for bringing new technical knowledge into the organization, raising the bar of technical expertise and providing input to strategic plans for the future of the infrastructure
- Maintains a moderately complex technology or multiple infrastructure technologies to assure operational availability and process integrity; documents maintenance activities; and maintains effective security/backup systems
- Monitors capacity, usage, and performance of assigned technologies; understands performance thresholds and analyzes and interprets data to determine issues; makes recommendations for changes and may implement agreed enhancements
- Troubleshoots most problems within assigned area, providing fault isolation and resolution that may be complicated by technology interdependency; analyzes cross-technology/platform issues; may serve as back-up for another technology
Implements disaster recovery and contingency plans; participates in the development of plans for own area
- Gains an awareness and contributes to redundancy (elimination of single points of failure) and high availability (services are operational across a WAN) through routine administration tasks and factoring concepts into project planning and coordination
- Identifies technical infrastructure requirements to support business needs; assess tradeoffs between business needs, technology requirements and costs; advises and presents resolution to client issues
- Interacts with major providers at the technical team level to address issues of limited scope; identifies SLA situations
- Designs, under direction of a senior colleague, basic infrastructure subsets; assists in the creation of technical standards
- Builds assigned infrastructure systems, requiring the need for subset integration and an understanding of its purpose; performs systems testing and installation of new systems.
- Performs quality assurance for subsets developed by less experienced colleagues
- Manages projects within assigned area, usually of moderate size and typically lasting a year or less (e.g., upgrading a new system); participates in the development of RFPs and RFIs, formulates project plan, goals, and submits for management approval; coordinates vendors, other technology colleagues, and relevant agency staff; tracks project progress
- Anticipates future needs within own area; leverages historical knowledge and anticipated future direction, researches technologies/products and their impact on the infrastructure, including vendor future direction and potential obstacles (e.g., technology change, support issues); prepares a preliminary evaluation of technologies/products and associated costs; develops and presents recommendations
- Provides technical guidance, trains, and may review the work of junior colleagues and peers to ensure work quality, assess problems, generate alternative solutions, and to contribute to departmental performance goals
REQUIREMENTS:
- 7+ years of relevant technical experience in engineer role or equivalent
- Expert knowledge in multiple architectural domains
- Expert knowledge in network design to include routing, switching, VoIP, datacenter and security
- Extensive experience in EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, DNS, SNMP, SSL VPN, IPSec, DMVPN, MPLS, HSRP, TCP/UDP, and other internet associated protocols
- Solid experience in network management, capacity planning, and redundant design for LAN / WAN / WLAN in a global enterprise infrastructure
- IP addressing to include subnetting, route aggregation, and BGP route maps
- Design, architect, implement and managing Nexus 9k and 7k multiple VDC deployment
- Cisco Leaf and Spine experience preferred but not required
- Advanced level Cisco FTD configuration and management experience preferred but not required
EDUCATION:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related fields