Senior Network Systems Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Senior Network Systems Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Lead and collaborate with other members of the Engineering team in the development of technical design solutions;
- Act as a mentor to more junior engineers in all areas of the systems development life cycle;
- Provide post-fielding support, resolving operational issues involving L2 and L3, in a multi-routing network infrastructure;
- Capture, analyze, decompose and create requirements for network systems, products and subsystems of moderate to high complexity;
- Develop and implement project plans within budgetary, schedule and resource constraints;
- Author, champion and have strong opinions on engineering design standards and best practices;
- Configuration and installation various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS, ACL);
- Apply Security/Cyber security methodologies to network and systems design to provide secure services that support business requirements;
- Serve as the primary technical lead on projects that contain moderate to highly complex environments.
Requirements:
- Ability to take the initiative in driving technical discussions with the relevant parties and not wait to be invited;
- Ability to adapt to changing priorities and maintain a productive and committed work effort, meeting deadlines and managing workload;
- Experience as mentor\team lead providing work direction and guidance to other personnel;
- Up to 20% travel required to support a global product and solutions organization;
- Experience in performing tasks in computers with UNIX/Linux operating systems and working with telco providers using MPLS circuits;
- Deep understanding of IP Networks, security and network management concepts;
- Often travel to customer locations to directly work with customers and resolve issues on-site;
- Communicate effectively with customers on both a technical and non-technical level;
- Knowledge of VoIP Telephony and of SIP with experience in voice network design to include SIP and QOS configurations;
- Self-managed and motivated;
- Work as part of a team as well as work unsupervised;
- A career path that has provided exposure to and experience of employing a broad spectrum of network and infrastructure technologies;
- Experience providing solutions and implementing infrastructures requiring 100% availability, near zero latency, low response times;
- Strive to constantly learn new technology and devices;
- Active CCNA or CCNP certification.