Network Engineer III

• Perform design requirements feasibility studies
• Perform vendor recommendation/selection and coordination for hardware testing and installations
• Examine theoretical and implemented designs for deficiencies and facilitate corrections
• Prepare maintenance plan documentation & change management
• Examine maintenance plans for accuracy
• Script maintenance implementations
• Work in either a lead role or an assisting role during maintenance implementations
• Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) & Method of Procedures (MOP’s)
• Develop network standardization practices
• Document informational content for specialized network designs to be used for training needs
• Present and/or Train on new network typologies, hardware, and technologies to internal teams
• Lead Root Cause Analysis sessions to achieve better networking practices
• Determine baseline requirements for our network needs
• Provide code analysis on existing software, IOS testing, and software recommendations
• Create network lab mockups for error testing
• Automate repetitive Engineering tasks
• Responsible for Forescout management and maintenance (as secondary)
• Manages the team’s ticket queue and responds on-site to issues
• Act as 3rd level escalations POC for design or other related problems
• Initial deployment of new products and services
• Monitor capacity and plan for bandwidth additions
• Establish project priority based on business needs

• High School Diploma or regional equivalent required
• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or Network Engineering
• Minimum 5-7 years of recent experience with network design and build-out of LAN/WANs and/or large-scale network retrofits and remediations
• Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP solutions, including load balancing and application delivery
• Must have certifications: CCNA and F5 101
• Advanced level experience working with most of the following technologies/applications: MPLS, BGP, LDP, QoS, IPv6, OSPF, vPC, STP, DWDM, EVPN, L2VPN, MPLS VPN, L3VPN, FHRP, VLAN, CDP, port-channels, IS-IS, MPLS Inter-AS, VXLAN, DNS, ACL, RADb, Flowspec, RTBH, GitHub, API’s, NFV, Hypervisors, virtual switching
• Multi-vendor experience working with the following platforms: Cisco IOS, ASR 1k (IOS-XE), ASR NCS (IOS-XR), Nexus (NX-OS), Arista (EOS), Junos
• Experience working in a service provider, datacenter/hosting environment, or large-scale enterprise networks
• Experience researching, evaluating, and recommending hardware and/or software solutions supporting large-scale deployments and/or remediations against the LAN/WAN
• Experience working with 3rd party networking vendors, with an understanding of the service/hardware/software portfolios they provide
• Able to identify areas of process improvement and provide input and solution options to streamline work
• Excellent writing, documentation, and communication skills, possessing the ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical peers
• Customer service-oriented attitude
• Experience with network service monitoring systems (Arbor, Zenoss, Syslog, SolarWinds, Splunk, Kibana, WhatsUp Gold, etc.)

Preferred certifications: F5 201, F5 301, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP preferred, CCIE (R&S, SP, or DC) highly preferred (or equivalent experience), Python PCEP

incentive compensation opportunities in the form of annual bonus or incentives, equity awards, and an Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)