Sr. Network Engineer Job Description Template
Our company is looking for a Sr. Network Engineer to join our team.
Responsibilities:
- Work with customers to understand requirements, recommendations, and project scopes;
- LAN/WAN implementation and support duties as required, including practical experience with the following devices;
- HP Switches;
- Align with SAFE Agile principles;
- Producing technical documents including assessments of current network infrastructure and project closeout documents for projects;
- Configure load balancers;
- Design, code, and test new network environments;
- Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting;
- Bring industry best-practices and new thinking to the team;
- Employ Government standards to configure the interconnects between data centers, networks and security boundaries;
- Ability to automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness;
- Monitors systems health and makes recommendations for additional resources or hardware;
- Must possess advanced troubleshooting skills;
- Optimize end-to-end system performance (capacity, margins, data quality etc.) and dataflow management;
- Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput. (U) Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats.
Requirements:
- High-level technical knowledge of network best practices;
- Problem solving skills and ability to work under pressure;
- Use knowledge of LAN/WAN systems to help design and install internal and external networks;
- UNIX operating experience: LAMP software deployments;
- Ability to anticipate problems, resolve ambiguity and take decisive action;
- Unwavering commitment to, and the ability to model, the standards of behavior set in our Code of Conduct;
- At least one Cisco network technology super-power; route & switch, security, etc;
- Ability to automate tasks and monitor their effectiveness;
- Cisco Call Manager experience to include implementation, troubleshooting, and upgrading;
- Desktop operating systems (i.e. Windows, OS X, Linux);
- Communicate with users when needed;
- Must possess advanced troubleshooting skills;
- Monitors systems health and makes recommendations for additional resources or hardware;
- Experience with NGFW products in a highly available enterprise environment;
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required.