Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer
Salt Lake City, UT
6+ Month Contract-to-Hire: $60-$70 per hour

• Design and maintain scalable, secure, and highly available network solutions across data centers, branches, and cloud environments.

• Lead or participate in the evaluation and implementation of new networking technologies and tools.

• While collaborating with peers, develop and establish long-term objectives and modernization efforts for the network infrastructure.

• Develop and contribute to automations efforts for critical and reoccurring tasks within the team.

• Mentor other members of the team and provide technical assistance to cross-functional teams.

• Participate in an on-call rotation and provide escalation support for critical incidents.

Requirements:

• 10 or more years in a network engineering role

• Significant experience in designing, implementing, and supporting datacenter networks in Spine-Leaf topologies, leveraging VXLAN and EVPN with Cisco Nexus infrastructure.

• Significant experience with advanced routing configurations, with special attention to BGP and OSPF.

• Experience in designing, implementing, and supporting, cloud-managed network solutions which include SD-WAN, switches, and wireless. Special attention to those with Cisco Meraki experience.

• Experience in leveraging scripting languages and automation to simplify and support complex networks. This can include the use of Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field required.

Preferred Requirements:

• Understanding of a wide range of infrastructure technologies like virtualization, containerization, load balancing, DDoS protection, security.

• Industry network certifications such as CCIE and CCNP.

• Experience in designing and supporting cloud environments, with particular attention in GCP, AWS, and Azure.

• Experience with network monitoring and performance tools such as SolarWinds, Grafana with Prometheus, Wireshark, and similar.

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