Network Analyst

Summary of This Role

Install, configure, maintain, support, and secure the organization's network communications, including LANs and / or WANs.

Identifies network problems, isolates root causes, and initiates corrective action. Determines priority of action and additional resources required, based on severity of service interruption.

Provides technical analysis to all customers to isolate issues and develop strategies to restore or activate services. Interacts with Telecommunication Engineers, LAN Administrators, and transmission and RF staff regarding ongoing network activities.

Ascertains compliance with security, safety, and environmental guidelines. Generates reports on network performance, trouble-shooting results, and routine maintenance of network elements.

This role requires individuals to work within the demands a global 24x7 High availability transaction oriented network. Ability to translate business requirements into network requirements and collaboratively work with other technical teams to deliver an overall solution.

What Part Will You Play?

• Acts as a Technical SME to drive collaboration in a team environment
• Serves as a Technical SME on unusually complex projects , demonstrating expert level problem solving skills with the Network
• As the Technical SME, recognizes and resolves unusually complex problems and issues according to corporate policies
• Manages unusually complex project tasks independently with internal and external clients
• Provides mentorship to entry / lower level team members
• At an expert / Technical SME level, independently designs, configures, tests, documents, and implements unusually complex network designs and components
• Develops ad-hoc, unusually complex reports on network performance, trouble-shooting results, and maintenance of network elements
• Acts as a Technical SME to independently utilize tools within the network to analyze client networks

What Are We Looking For in This Role?

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• Relevant Experience or Degree in : No degree specified
• Typically Minimum 8+ Years Relevant Exp
• 8 + years of enterprise networking experience and / or a Bachelor's Degree
• Certification CCNA or CCNP

Preferred Qualifications

Appropriate advanced industry network certifications are preferred.

What Are Our Desired Skills and Capabilities?

Skills / Knowledge -Having broad expertise or unique knowledge, uses skills to contribute to development of company objectives and principles and to achieve goals in creative and effective ways.

Barriers to entry such as technical committee review may exist at this level.

Job Complexity -Works on significant and unique issues where analysis of situations or data requires an evaluation of intangibles.

Exercises independent judgment in methods, techniques and evaluation criteria for obtaining results. Creates formal networks involving coordination among groups.

• Supervision -Acts independently to determine methods and procedures on new or special assignments. May supervise the activities of others.
• Dynamic Routing - Configure industry standard dynamic routing protocols including but not limited to BGP and OSPF.
• WAN Optimization and QoS - WAN optimization and QoS on global MPLS network carrying voice and data.
• Load Balancing - Global DNS load balancing and local application load balancing.
• ACI - Application Centric Infrastructure

Global Payments Inc. is an equal opportunity employer.

Global Payments provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, ancestry, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status, genetic information or any other basis protected by law.

Those applicants requiring reasonable accommodation to the application and / or interview process should notify a representative of the Human Resources Department.