Remote Senior Network Engineer

Summary

The job description is for a Network Engineer position at Deft a Summit company. The role involves network administration, design, and support for both customer-facing and internal systems. The candidate should have strong Juniper and EVPN skills, with a focus on networking architecture and operations.

Requirements

• Experience in network troubleshooting/fault isolation
• Minimum of 5 years operational experience (Service Provider or Enterprise IT Campus/Datacenter)
• Minimum of 3 years operational experience with Juniper MX / PTX / QFX / EX platforms
• Extensive working knowledge of Juniper JUNOS / JUNOS Evo
• Extensive operational experience with routing protocols, including BGP and OSPF
• Extensive operational experience with networking protocols and standards including EVPN, VXLAN, VRRP, LACP, VLANs
• Excellent written and verbal interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated willingness to learn, teach, and share knowledge
• Operational experience with configuration & troubleshooting of cloud and hypervisor networking

Responsibilities

• Assist with design and administrative requirements to ensure an efficient, reliable, and secure customer experience
• Interface with customers, vendors, and internal staff
• Function as an escalation point for Network Engineering staff and advanced customer support
• Provision customer interfaces and managed hardware with close coordination with the customer
• Maintain and promote Deft’s top-quality support and customer satisfaction
• Monitor task workflow, customer communications and trouble ticket generation / escalation / resolution
• Adherence to Change Control process and ensuring Compliance requirements are met
• Participation in weekly on-call rotation and escalation trees
• Review reports of backbone circuit, transit provider, and customer routing / switching issues
• Work with team members across multiple geographic locations and time zones to ensure thorough completion of tasks
• Proactively monitor and troubleshoot the Deft network for stability and performance
• Create, modify, and improve documentation supporting the Engineering teams
• Propose, develop, and complete projects requisite with skill level

Preferred Qualifications

• Operational experience with networking protocols and standards including L3VPN, MPLS
• Operation experience with Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) advanced networking concepts such as Route Tables, Transit Gateway, and Direct Connect
• Experience with layer 1 troubleshooting, including fiber crossconnects, dark fiber, DWDM systems (muxes, optical transport systems, etc)
• Extensive experience configuring and troubleshooting firewalls, network load balancers, IPSec tunnels, NAT, Layer 4/7 load balancing. Preferred platforms: Palo Alto/Juniper SRX/Fortinet, Radware Alteon / HAProxy
• Working knowledge of Anisble
• Working knowledge of a scripting language (Python, Perl, Bash, Go, Javascript, etc)
• Experience with deployment and centralized management of Palo Alto firewalls
• Preferred Certifications: Juniper JNCIE-SP, Juniper JNCIE-ENT. Preferred Certifications: Palo Alto Networks Certified Cybersecurity Associate (PCCSA), Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA), Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE)

Benefits

• Flexible Time Off
• RTA and CTA Transit Benefits
• 401k with 4% employer match
• Free employee collocation and cloud account
• Life Insurance/Long Term Disability
• Health Insurance with HRA/HSA Options
• Vision Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• A fun and casual work environment