Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Experience Required
8+ years’ experience with data networking technologies, protocols, equipment, virtual constructs, and architectures.
Real world experience employed by an Internet service provider, telecommunications carrier, or similar enterprise scale network operation.
Experience with virtualized network functions included in VMWare products and/or a public hyperscaler such as AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Understand and be able to explain the 7-layer OSI network reference model.
Experience with configuration and maintenance of network equipment from multiple vendors, including Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Extreme, Brocade, HP, F5, A10, Checkpoint, Palo Alto. (Not all are required; we would like to see that you have experience with some of these names)
Understanding of Ethernet framing, forwarding, aggregation, and loop protection mechanisms.
Experience with deployment and maintenance of high availability mechanisms at multiple layers of the OSI network model.
Understand and be able to explain IPV4 subnetting and routing.
Extensive experience with at least two of the following dynamic routing protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, ISIS, RIP
Experience with IP network security technologies including stateful firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention, application proxies, and encrypted VPN.
Experience with SNMP for enterprise network management tasks.
Understand and have experience with distributed role-based access control systems as applied to network infrastructure
Ability to program in an administrative scripting language. This should include at least one of the following: ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, expect, bash, perl, python.
Knowledge and experience working with ITIL processes