Network Engineer

WHAT YOU LL DO

- Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, and data center infrastructure routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VRFs, VLANs), data center fabrics, SD-WAN, and hybrid cloud connectivity.

- Troubleshoot complex, cross-domain incidents to root cause, including voice, video, and contact-center quality issues (QoS, SIP/RTP, WebRTC, jitter, latency, packet loss).

- Own network monitoring and telemetry configure monitoring platforms, flow data (NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX), SNMP, syslog, and packet capture; tune thresholds to reduce alert noise.

- Execute change management with documented plans, peer review, validation, and rollback; participate in on-call and major-incident escalation.

- Serve as network/telecom SME to data, analytics, and ML teams defining what constitutes an actionable incident, validating correlation and anomaly-detection output, and reviewing AI-generated recommendations before execution.

- Automate operational tasks using Python, Ansible, or vendor APIs; maintain configuration standards, runbooks, and topology documentation.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

- 5+ years hands-on enterprise network engineering in production environments.

- Deep routing and switching expertise and solid TCP/IP fundamentals able to reason about the full path a packet takes.

- Experience with enterprise platforms from one or more major vendors (Cisco, Arista,



Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet, F5).

- Working knowledge of voice/video networking QoS for real-time media and the causes of call-quality degradation.

- Hands-on with monitoring, flow analysis, and packet capture tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Zabbix, ThousandEyes, Wireshark, or similar).

- Firewall and network security experience segmentation, ACLs, VPNs, secure remote access.

- Scripting ability (Python or Ansible) and familiarity with ITSM and change management processes.

- Bachelor s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.

PREFERRED

- Data center fabric (Cisco ACI, VXLAN/EVPN), SD-WAN deployment, or cloud networking (Azure/AWS).

- Exposure to observability and telemetry pipelines (Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar).

- Familiarity with modern data platforms and SQL, or with AIOps / AI-assisted operations.

- Experience in a regulated industry; consulting or client-facing delivery background.

- Certifications: CCNP (Enterprise, Data Center, or Collaboration), CCIE, JNCIP, AZ-700, or equivalent.

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