Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

This Role is IN-Office Located In Overland Park, KS

Position Purpose / Summary

The Network Engineer will function within the Fastwyre organization to perform work requiring a high level of technical knowledge across broadband data, voice and video services for an Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Requires the ability to quickly adapt and obtain a high level of knowledge of other areas within the engineering field for all critical infrastructure platforms.

When acting as project leader, this position takes the lead in managing large-scale, complex, and highly analytical tasks.

The Network Engineer serves as lead technical architect and integrator for large, complex network infrastructures and mentor’s junior personnel in the engineering field.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities

Provides long-range strategic planning for new and innovative networking technologies, including research and development of alternative architectures, new infrastructure framework, and engineering strategy;

monitors the impact of technological developments and supplier roadmaps.

Leads advanced technical project teams and contractors, with engineering emphasis on routing / switching, system buildouts, and systems security and reliability;

plans, assigns, directs, and coordinates work efforts; develops project plans, timetables, and staff requirements.

• Enhances legacy infrastructure with upgrade designs, expansion projects and configuration improvements, presents proposals to Director level and above for costing approval and IRR / breakeven targets.
• Oversees the performance of day-to-day networking tasks to ensure network reliability, availability, performance and serviceability with minimal service interruptions.
• Provides complex technical support, analyzes, and solves complex reported network problems.
• Develops criteria and oversees design and development of prototypical lab environments for the purpose of providing testing and training platforms of new networking technologies by engineering and operations staff.
• Develops and produces engineering documentation for installation, optimization and evolving network topology.
• Acts as highest level of technical support internally for troubleshooting of communications hardware or software.
• Develop and implement standard operating procedures and author system configuration documents for on-going reference.
• Represents the engineering department at group, task force and steering committee meetings and pilot testing, as assigned.
• Performing other duties and responsibilities as assigned, occasional travel to Fastwyre locations as required.

Knowledge, Abilities, & Skills for Success

• Expert level knowledge of transport protocols, routing protocols, and security / auth to encryption protocols at all layers of the OSI model with emphasis on TCP / IP are essential.
• Must have knowledge networking features and protocols such as spanning tree, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, EtherChannel, 802.

1Q trunking, MLS, HSRP, GLBP, VSS / VSL, QoS, TCP / IP, UDP, IPSEC, HTTP, HTTPS, Multicast, 802.11a / b / g / n / ac, IPsec, RADIUS / TACACS+, SNMP, current WAN / MAN telecommunications technologies and Web caching services (proxy server) and 802.1x.

• Expert level of IP Subnetting, DNS, encryption technologies and standards, VPNs, VLANs, VoIP and other network routing methods.
• Extensive experience with routers, switches, network security, Internet / Intranet environments with an Internet Service Provider (ISP).
• Understanding of SDN / SDDC (Software Defined Network or Datacenter - full stack - (compute, storage, network) including experience with AWS, Azure, Openstack, Cloudstack, or related virtualization technologies.

Experience with Calix, Cisco, Ciena are required.

• Knowledge of technology industry trends and emerging technologies.
• Knowledge of project life cycle methodologies.
• Ability to manage studies, special projects, and assignments with long-range impacts.
• Hands-on experience with how to support repeatable, reliable, and scalable network architectures with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics / metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• Expertise in analyzing network traffic capacity and performance characteristics.

Qualifications

At a minimum, the Network Engineer must have :

• Requires a bachelor’s degree in computer science, electrical engineering, electronics, telecommunications, or a related field, or five to seven years of direct network experience with a high emphasis on complex network design and support.
• Current engineering certification of CCNP Service Provider or JNCIA Service Provider preferred. Lack of valid / current certification would be evaluated on a case-by-case basis for exceptional candidates with an extensive network engineering background.
2 days ago