Hunter Gibbons, is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer for an immediate DIRECT HIRE opportunity with one of our most prestigious clients in the Baltimore area. The client offers stability, a fantastic work environment, innovative technologies, amazing professional growth opportunities, an incredible FULL BENEFITS package, flexible work hours and champions the importance of a healthy work-life/home-life balance.
Job Duties:
- Provide technical leadership for a team of engineers tasked with daily WAN / LAN operations for OVER 190 Television stations in over 80 Markets through the US
- Administer station Internet/MPLS/ADVPN connections & diverse data centers using BGP with multiple peers and diverse routing paths
- Work with Security team to manage firewall rules, NAT, and site-to-site VPN connections using OSPF routing, and 3rd party connections developing sustainable and automated procedures
- Work with Systems Administrators to determine network infrastructure requirements, including iSCSI storage networking, broadcast operation software requirements, and other critical business needs
- Work with Aruba WIFI, Airwave, and ClearPass, Cisco, Arista, Fortinet, and other networking/security technologies
- Assist with remote access for employees, ranging from client to appliance VPN configurations and support leveraging Citrix NetScaler VPN solution
- Lead the configuration of SolarWinds SNMP management for monitoring network devices and services along with other opensource tools for enterprise management
- Leverage Scrutinizer to analyze NetFlow & SFlow data along with cloud based SDN packet analysis tools to profile application traffic to identify and correct ongoing problems
- Provide tier 3 support to Network Team and Stakeholders as required on an on-call basis as part of a larger rotation
- The ability to assist other Infrastructure staff acting as remote assistance for West Coast data center
- Develop policies and practices for the network team to elevate the levels of service that the team provides for a diverse set of stakeholders throughout the company
- Embrace DevOps practices bringing them to the Network Operation team to accelerate deployments, standards, monitoring, fault analysis, and tracking of changes throughout our enterprise
Requirements:
- Extensive knowledge of CCNP level networking required
- 10+ years’ experience with large WAN environments
- 10+ years’ experience with complex LAN and Datacenter environments
- Experience managing large Wi-Fi deployments including Fortinet and Aruba are required
- Must have knowledge of Python and Ansible for network automation
- Experience in cloud networking (Azure Express Route and AWS connections) is required
- Knowledge of Software Defined Networking and Virtual Network Functions (VNF) required
- Must be able to work independently and as part of a project team for large initiatives
- Must be able to establish personal relationships with stakeholders understanding their needs and how best to accomplish their goals in a diverse non-standard environment
- The ability to work in a fast-paced environment where 24x7 communications are required for critical applications
- Ability to coach and lead the existing technical team in modern operations and DevOps practices to bring higher levels of automation, documenting, and service to our internal customers