Job Purpose The Jackson network is state of the art and supports innovative enterprise applications and Jacksonsers at the HQ in Lansing, Michigan, along with key business sites throughout the United States. As a key member of the Jackson Network Services department, the Senior Network Engineer will have direct impact on the design and operations of the network. You will collaborate with a team of professionals who thrive to be creative and support as-is and new business initiatives.
The Jackson network spans across many technical domains, including innovative data center and next-generation campus networks, all of which present exciting technical challenges. These challenges require continual innovation as the dynamic business climate changes. You will have constant opportunities to sharpen your technical skill sets amongst the diverse technology-rich network environments from industry leading technology OEMAs the industry begins a transformation with automation, orchestration, and software defined networking (SDN) technologies, you will be part of the team that drives this innovation. The Network Services team is very proud to be the foundation of the Jackson technology stack and operate as leading and dynamic agents of change supporting the industry leading business financial products.
Essential Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Collaborates with the Principal Architect to identify, design and develop strategic network solutions compliant with technical and security policies.
- Collaborates with other Jackson networking and technical teams and Information Security on new initiatives.
- Acts as subject matter expert in several Jackson network technologies, including analysis and QA.
- Determines cost-effective ways to manage the network.
- Ensures the designs promote ultimate availability and compliance with security standards.
- Sets the standards for the team in terms of network infrastructure code levels.
- Develops department design standards.
- Promotes advancement of automation and orchestration tools across the environment.
- Ensures Level-4 support to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
- Mentors other team members and provides technical knowledge transfer via team events.
- Runs small and medium projects from start to finish in accordance with department processes.
- Provides management level recommendations for optimization, budget, new technology.
- Participates in rotating on-call operational support as well as project deployments.
Other Duties - Other duties as assigned.
Qualifications Job Requirements (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)
- Expert knowledge of Cisco switch and router hardware (ASR 9000 and Nexus 9000 and 7000 series).
- Experience with SDN (Cisco ACI and/or VMWare NSX)
- Experience and Background with Enterprise Network Automation and Orchestration.
- In-depth knowledge of LAN switch technology.
- Expert knowledge of VPN technologies.
- Expert knowledge of IPv4 and familiarity with IPv6.
- Expert knowledge of routing protocols (OSPF, BGP).
- Demonstrated knowledge and experience with QoS.
- In-depth knowledge of Wireless technology.
- In-depth Firewall knowledge.
- In-depth Layer 4-7 switching experience.
- Direct experience with the following technologies:
- Cisco NX-OS, IOS and ASA
- Checkpoint
- Infoblox
- F5 (Big IP)
- Cisco ISE
- VOIP technology
- Authentication services
- DWDM technologies
- Network Management tools (Cisco Prime NCS, SolarWinds, Statseeker)
- Perl, Python, C++ or other scripting languages
- In-depth traffic monitoring and analysis (Netscout, Wireshark, tcpdump, Gigamon).
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Strong project coordination skills.
- Strong relationship management and negotiation skills.
- Strong verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills.
- Strong ability to interpret impact of technology decisions.
- Ability to make effective decisions quickly with limited information.
- ITIL working knowledge with Incident, Change, Problem management tools.
Education and Experience Required - Bacheloregree in Computer science, Engineering or related technical field and/or equivalent experience.
- 5+ years of technical experiences with the above qualifications.
Certifications
- ITILV3 (preferred)
- CCNP (preferred)
- CISSP (preferred)
- CCNA (required)
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