Sr Network Engineer

Company Overview

SageNet is a leading managed services provider specializing in connectivity, digital signage, and cybersecurity. The company connects, manages, and protects technologies and devices across widely distributed enterprises. SageNet's people, processes, and technologies, coupled with its collaborative approach, empowers customers to achieve their core business objectives.

The company offers world-class service and support via its US-based 24/7/365 Network Operations Centers (NOCs) and Security Operations Centers (SOCs), geographically diverse teleports, a central National Logistics Center, multiple data centers, and a nationwide field service organization.

What makes SageNet unique is its Why: SageNet is passionate about Trusted Connections. This is a two-fold calling. First, the company creates trusted, reliable, and secure technological connections for its customers. Second, and perhaps even more importantly, SageNet works tirelessly to build trusted human connections with its customers, partners, and communities. The company believes that by creating, discovering, and nurturing these trusted connections, SageNet enhances the world that connects us all.

With a three-decade track record in managed services, SageNet boasts a long-term customer base that includes the nation's largest retail, financial, healthcare, utilities, and energy organizations. SageNet manages communications for more than 220,000 endpoints. Headquartered in Tulsa, SageNet has regional offices in Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, Toronto and Washington, D.C.

Job Purpose

Key responsibilities of a Sr. Network Engineer include the design, implementation, maintenance, and support of our growing customer base technologies and solutions. The right personality is an independent problem solver with a strong, positive attitude. The ability to learn and implement new technologies is paramount. This position is part of a team of engineers who are responsible for designing and developing scalable, maintainable, highly available network architectures that meet external customer objectives and SLAs. The focus of this role will be around Palo Alto technologies.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Serve as a Technology specialist around Palo Alto products and solutions
• Develop network rollouts, projects, process flow, documentation, and on-going maintenance for assigned accounts, as they relate to Palo Alto solutions
• Escalation point of contact for any Palo Alto customer solutions
• Support, install, maintain, troubleshoot, and coordinate the usage of any Palo Alto technology
• Assess Palo Alto customer environments and make recommendations based on needs
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to Palo Alto network infrastructure
• Provide engineering support for network design, performance tuning, and monitoring for all Palo Alto solutions
• Network incident and outage escalation for Operations and Network Engineers as they relate to Palo Alto customers
• Prepares other teams (CIM, Test & Turn Up, Customer Service & Support, Config-Line, Network Ops, etc.) by designing and conducting new and existing project training programs as they relate to Palo Alto products and customer networks
• Liaise with Palo Alto vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• Create and maintain all required network documentation including diagrams and troubleshooting methodologies using provided tools

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools
• 6+ years of networking experience in environments supporting multiple vendors and networking products
• 4+ years of Palo Alto experience within a production environment
• Experience transitioning environments from another solution (FortiNet, Meraki) to Palo Alto
• Well versed with Palo Alto products and solutions
• Network Engineering and support of routers, switches, network security devices, and network management systems
• Deep understanding of networking protocols (DMVPN, IPSEC, BGP, MPLS, VRF, QoS, Spanning-Tree, OSPF, 802.11, QoS, ACL's, DHCP, TCP/IP, DNS)
• Proven ability to work under pressure and interface with senior management
• Proficient in the use of Visio, PowerPoint, Word, and Excel
• CCNP certification or equivalent experience preferred
• Palo Alto certification is highly preferred
• Experience with PCI DSS standards preferred

Working Conditions

• Productively work in a hybrid work environment which consists of 2 mandatory "all-in" days, 1 variable day, and 2 virtual days. Hybrid work environment is applied per position/department and may be subject to change per changes in the Policy.
• Business casual work environment
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment
• Standard daytime working hours, rotating 24/7 on call schedule, and ability to respond to a support call at all times during on call schedule

Physical Requirements

• Be able to sit or stand for long periods of time
• Occasionally have to lift/carry 20 lbs.
• Extensive use of hands and fingers for typing
• Extensive use of eyes in reviewing paper documents or a computer screen

Classification*: Exempt

Position Type: Full Time

Travel Requirements: Less than 5%

Direct Reports: None

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