Network Engineer II

Job Description
The Network Engineer II is responsible for the design, plan, and implementation, operation, and maintenance of all networks on cloud and premise of all networks. Individual will be participating in multi-functional projects and working in a collaborative environment with other passionate, highly skilled across other team members to create a positive impact on our business. Coordinating installation, testing, and troubleshooting on network environments. This individual will also be responsible for ongoing support of the enterprise network operation.

Essential Functions (fundamental, crucial job duties performed in a position. include how the person is to perform them including frequency of tasks)

• Conceptualize, design, and document the network solution, that meets or exceeds the requirements of the business, utilizing a reference architecture and established best practices.
• Engage in project communications using a consultative approach, anticipate obstacles, analyze risk, and recommend steps to mitigate.
• Develop a sound understanding of organization's functional and business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables.
• Ensure designs and infrastructure solutions fulfill functional and technical requirements, adhere to processes and standards, favor simplicity over complexity, and promote supportability.
• Support network device deployment, configuration, management, and lifecycle.
• Design and implement efficiency, consolidation, high availability, resiliency, and best practices across the routing, switching, IaaS, and WAN environments.
• Maintain skill set and stay abreast of emerging technologies and issues
• Coordinate network maintenance/downtime with IT and lines of business
• Provide day to day support of overall network infrastructure.
• Adheres to all organizational policies and procedures.

Experience and Skills
Qualifications/Requirements:

• Cisco CCNA required
• Minimum of 3-5 years industry experience.
• Fundamental level of proficiency with firewall solutions such as Palo Alto
• Cloud network experience such as GCP and OCI is a plus
• Fundamental level proficiency designing and architecting Cisco enterprise level
• fundamental level proficiency with subnetting, DNS, MPLS, STP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IPSEC, TCPIP, DHCP/IP address management, and packet capture and inspection.
• fundamental proficiency with load balancing, high availability, and disaster recovery HA/DR
• Intermediate proficiency in network security and network hardening.
• Proven track record of planning, coordinating, and executing IT initiatives at scale
• Excellent technical skills as well as strong team orientation and communication
• Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution, and customer service skills. Works effectively as a member of a high-performing team.
• Strong capabilities around configuration management, capacity planning, and analysis,
• Understands systems dependencies and interrelation to the business.
• Ability to analyze complex, cross-functional and cross-platform issues.
• Champion of following established best practices, continuous improvement, prioritizing cyber hygiene, and avoiding and, where possible, reducing technical debt.
• Working knowledge of system monitoring and alerting tools, including SolarWinds, Zenoss, and PRTG
• Able to engage in a professional manner with all levels of management and staff
• Demonstrates initiative, the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and size work efforts