Senior Network Engineer

Meriplex is a managed cybersecurity, IT, and SD-WAN solutions provider that enables transformation by combining secure, innovative technology with advanced expertise. Innovation is our hallmark, and it begins with staff development. Join Meriplex where you will have the opportunity to develop your skills while working alongside a team of enthusiastic industry and technology experts.

Meriplex is looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to join our strong-growing organization focusing on our acquisition strategy. This role will be responsible for the design, implementation, troubleshooting, and documenting of the Meriplex core service provider network. Meriplex cultivates a collaborative culture, and as the Senior Network Engineer, you partner with and work across all departments of the organization to improve the management and execution of our business processes. 

Make your mark at Meriplex by being the best at what you do. Here’s how to make an impact:

• Thoroughly document all issues to alleviate chronic escalations. Set your team up for success. Nobody likes to be left in the dark.
• Strong interpersonal, oral, visual, and written communication skills for communications to technical and non-technical staff & customers. Your patience under high pressure situations will payoff here.
• Excellent analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy. This is how you become the best subject matter expert!

Let’s work together to succeed together! A minimum of 5 years of experience in the following areas is a good start:

• Design and implement new sites and services
  • Oversee implementation of new network infrastructure to scale or increase resiliency
  • Stage and deploy new data center implementations including core routing and switching
  • Document and present recommendations to leadership as required
  • Participate in and defend decisions within change control life cycle
• Maintain and manage networking services
  • Provide network operational support to internal teams or customers as needed
  • Monitor network to ensure KPIs and SLAs are met
  • Routinely review designs for operational efficiency and make recommendations for improvement
  • Manage hardware and software lifecycle of networking equipment
  • Maintain best practice security guidelines and oversee their enforcement
  • Provision IP addressing
  • Proficient in technologies such as, but not limited to: MPLS, IPv4/6, VLANs, VPN, BGP, OSPF, CoS, QoS, LAG, VRRP, L3VPN, L2VPN, Route Reflectors
  • Performance tuning, metric collection, disaster recovery
  • Maintain network documentation for core network infrastructure
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• Troubleshooting
  • Serve as the primary escalation point for all core network-related issues and outages.
  • Interact with carriers and other third-party vendors as needed for remediation.
  • Ability to critically evaluate changes and understand their impact
  • Support service provider offerings within other departments as they related to the core network to remediate issues.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of enterprise Juniper and Cisco WAN/LAN
• Service Provider Experience
• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to manage projects and infrastructure, keeping all focused on departmental goals and objectives
• Ability to lead and influence others through collaborative efforts
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions
• Excellent organizational skills including the ability to work effectively in a dynamic and changing environment
• Understand departmental budgets

Desired Qualifications:

• Proven work experience as a lead network engineer with a service provider background
• Solid technical background with an ability to give instructions to both a technical and non-technical audience

Desired Certification:

• Juniper: JNCIP or higher in datacenter, enterprise routing and switching
• Cisco: CCNP or Higher preferred

Work Schedule/Travel - Standard Meriplex business hours of 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM with the ability to have a flexible schedule and take after-hours calls due to work volume and proposal deadlines are a must. The ability to travel up to 10% may be required based on project requirements.

Work Location - We value in-office collaboration. We are looking for a hire to be in proximity of one of our main offices: Houston, TX 77042; Dallas/Plano, TX 75093; Indianapolis, IN 46278; Baton Rouge, LA 70816; Aurora, CO 80014; Irvine, CA 92606; Camarillo, CA 93012; Sacramento, CA 95834; Portland, Oregon 97035

We value both education and experience equally - B.S. degree in Computer Science or related IT field preferred or equivalent education and work experience. While your formal degree, and certifications, would contribute to your success in this role, we also find tremendous value in skills and knowledge gained through in depth, real-world experience in a related field.

The Meriplex Difference - Meriplex employees receive a full benefits package including medical, dental, vision, disability, group term life insurance, 401K, plus PTO, holiday pay, as well as referral bonuses.

If you want to be a lion, you must train with lions. Come and join a winning team!

• Channel Futures MSP 501 Winner (2021)
• Houston’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For (2020 & 2021)
• Top 50 Tech Services CEO Award (2020)
• CRN MSTP 500 Winner (2021 & 2022)

We value our employees and give credit where credit is deserved through our quarterly employee recognition award – the L.I.O.N. award: 

Leading with Innovation 

Internal Partnerships 

Operational Excellence 

Next-Level Customer Service 

Meriplex Communications and Meriplex Solutions are Equal Employment Opportunity Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this Web site or directly to managers. Meriplex Communications and Meriplex Solutions do not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Meriplex Communications and Meriplex Solutions will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Meriplex Communications and Meriplex Solutions.