Infrastructure Network Engineer

At Cisco Meraki, we believe that when passionate people are able to spend less time struggling with technology, they can spend more time on what matters - like teaching children, running businesses, keeping airports safe, and connecting disaster victims with relief. That’s the real power of simplicity. Cisco Meraki is the leader in cloud-managed IT, thanks to our creative, inclusive, fearless team that is driven to simplify technology so the world can simply work!

You:

We are looking for an Infrastructure Network Engineer to join our Engineering team, providing network administration and troubleshooting, network architecture and design guidance and testing pre-release products within our corporate network, throughout the development lifecycle. You are highly analytical and able to use your networking skills as part of our Engineering team to help craft a resilient, sophisticated, and creative network that serves as a showcase for all that Meraki can do. Excellent communication skills, problem-solving abilities, and project management abilities are essential. Those with a strong sense of team, desire to help others, and a passion for IT are encouraged to apply!

What You Will Do:

The Meraki IT Engineering team is responsible for the architecture, upkeep, and overall health of Meraki’s internal-facing systems from the network up to the platform. In this role, you will be administering our Corporate Network, which we use to demo with our customers, crafting and maintaining the best example of a Meraki network. Meraki continues to grow at an astonishing pace, and you will help ensure that our systems and services scale appropriately.

• Work with the team to architect and maintain the “best” example of a Meraki/Cisco network for us to demo to our customers.

• Day-to-day management of Cisco/Meraki’s network infrastructure, including design and architecture.

• Work with Product teams to represent Meraki IT Engineering in “Customer Zero” projects.

• Test pre-release hardware in our environment, providing feedback to Product teams on performance and functionality.

• Configure and set up new and existing Cisco Meraki MX security appliances, MS switches, and MR wireless access points.

• Capture and log traffic to define patterns and optimize the performance of our network.

Who You Are:

We strive to create a welcoming workplace that inspires the insatiably curious and the relentlessly focused to make customer IT and networks utterly simple. We are looking for an individual that lives the Meraki values daily: care deeply, be brave, simplify everything, and everybody in. Our ideal candidate is not bound by a checklist, which includes,

• You are a great team player who is comfortable working in a dynamic environment.

• Day-to-day management of Cisco/Meraki’s network infrastructure, using metrics and performance data to drive design and architecture.

• Collects feedback from stakeholders, balancing feature requests with production network performance requirements.

• Configures, implements, tests, and maintains all LAN/WAN components and connections.

• Advanced experience architecting and troubleshooting Meraki/Cisco networks.

• Experience implementing voice in a real-world multi-site environment.

• Must be organized, with excellent verbal and written communication skills.

• A drive to contribute to the mission of yourself and your teammates, through the work you contribute.

• Ability to work autonomously and with a team in a fast-paced environment.

Why Cisco Meraki?

We connect everything: people, processes, data, and things. We innovate everywhere, taking ambitious risks to craft the technologies that give us connected cities, connected cars, and handheld hospitals. And we do it in style with unusual personalities who aren't afraid to change the way the world works, lives, plays and learns. We are encouraging leaders, tech geeks, pop culture aficionados, and we even have a few purple haired rock stars. We celebrate the creativity and diversity that fuels our innovation. We are dreamers and we are doers. We Are Cisco Meraki.

At Cisco Meraki, we’re challenging the status quo with the power of diversity, inclusion, and collaboration. When we connect different perspectives, we can imagine new possibilities, inspire innovation, and release the full potential of our people. We’re building an employee experience that includes appreciation, belonging, growth, and purpose for everyone.

Cisco is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis. Cisco will consider for employment, on a case by case basis, qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.