Data Network Engineer-US/Canada

Data Network Engineer

Location: Remote/US/Canada

Duration: 6-12+ Months

Job Description: Data Network Engineers for DISH

Job Duties and Responsibilities

Network Engineering (cross-section of relevant skills):

• Practical experience related to LAN, WAN, WLAN, VLAN, DMVPN, VPN, SD-WAN 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, subnetting, routing
• Familiarity with these technologies is a plus: Cisco ASA, Palo Alto firewalls (physical and virtual), 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
• High level of experience with Cisco’s ACI data center platform running in network mode.
• Experience with network configuration automation (Scripting with Pearl/Python/Bash), and DNA Center a plus
• Experience with AWS infrastructure a plus

Project Implementation:

• 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

Education and Experience: Bachelor's degree in Computer/Network Engineering or related field; 12+ years as a data network engineer in a medium to large enterprise network; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Skills and Qualifications:

• 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.