Senior Network Engineer

Company Description
Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 133,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for Architecting, Engineering, maintaining and documenting the enterprise and management data communications and telecommunications global networks. The preferred candidate will have ten or more years of experience working with enterprise data networks that includes the regular provisioning of layer 2 and layer 3 data communications devices from a variety of manufacturers including Cisco Systems, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks. The exceptional candidate will flourish in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, forward thinking corporate environment.
Responsibilities:

• Engineer and design solutions, which can include public and private telecommunications networks.
• Project manage network installation projects consisting of telecommunications equipment, systems, and services; develop operating procedures; and provide on-going technical support.
• Assume operational responsibility for SD-WAN/LAN/WAN, wireless, load-balancers and monitoring systems as assigned.
• Interact between internal groups and provide recommendations and support.
• Record and track orders and complete tickets to meet requested service dates.
• Develop and recommend strategies to address specific telecommunications, connectivity and related service needs.
• Promote standardization across technical environments, driving changes when necessary for architectural improvements, supportability, and reliability.
• Provide technical support to internal work groups.
• Perform maintenance and upgrades on the network to improve reliability and security.
• Provision new circuits, routers, and other network equipment as required.
• Troubleshoot network issues and develop solutions.
• Integrate new networks that have been acquired by Zayo Group.
• Take part in on-call rotation.

Qualifications:

• Proven hands-on network engineering experience.
• Strong troubleshooting skills.
• 10+ years' experience with Cisco and Juniper network environments supporting datacenter and corporate-facing infrastructure.
• 10+ years of hands-on networking experience is required with Cisco and Juniper routers and switches.
• 10+ years' experience troubleshooting and configuring firewalls and VPN appliances (ideally Palo Alto and Cisco ASA).
• Experience with Network routing and switching protocols: OSPF, BGP, MPLS, DIA, OMP, VRRP, IPSEC, VLAN, ACL's, VPN, STP, port channel, 802.11, QoS and L2/L3 etc.
• Experience in planning, designing Implementation & troubleshooting of Data Center networks.
• Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model and associated equipment.
• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools.
• Understanding of SDWAN.
• Good understanding of Network Automation concepts.
• Cisco vEdge, cEdge, Meraki and Juniper QFX, EX and MX experience is required.
• CCNA is required, CCNP preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Effective time management skills and customer focus.

Base pay range: $95,800 - 136,900, commensurate with experience
Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
• Fitness membership discounts
• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.