Network Engineer

Purpose of Position

The Network Engineer proactively and holistically participates in and supports architecture and engineering activities that guide the development and management of technical and infrastructure solutions. These solutions enable the organization's future state business capabilities and drive the organization's targeted business outcomes. Technologies include data center, infrastructure, cloud, mobile, AI, Internet of Things, blockchain, edge computing, and immersive experiences technologies. In addition, the Network Engineer creates deliverables that help develop target state guidance  on reusable standards, guidelines, individual parts, platforms, and configurations and solving the technical infrastructure across the enterprise to enable business strategy and deliver targeted business outcomes.

Tasks and Responsibilities

• Works with peers in enterprise, business, information, solutions, and security architects to analyze business strategy and trends and change requirements in other enterprise architecture viewpoints such as business, information, and solution to derive the future state technology architecture. This includes defining the requirements, principles, and models that guide technology decisions for the enterprise
• Analyzes the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies, legacy, and technical debt and recommends solutions for improvement. In addition, leads the analysis of technology industry and market trends to determine their potential impact on the enterprise and the enterprise technology architecture
• Collaborates with technical subject matter experts and peers to develop technology architecture that enables and drives new business capabilities and operating models
• Drives digital innovation by leveraging innovative new technologies and approaches to renovate, extend, and transform the existing core technology base and IT estate
• Defines high level migration plans to address the gaps between the future and current state, typically in sync with IT budgeting or other capital planning processes
• Understands technology trends and the practical application of existing, new, and emerging technologies to enable new and evolving business and operating models
• Guides technology investment decisions based on analysis and evaluation to drive targeted business outcomes
• Assists with designing the governance, assurance, and standards activities associated with ensuring enterprise technology architecture compliance of projects and products
• Participates in the research, evaluation, and selection of hardware and software technology and product standards and the design of standard configurations
• Understands, advocates, and augments the business and IT strategies and, more specifically, architecture development and service delivery
• Collaborates with peers to deliver business outcomes
• Facilitates technology implementation and modification activities. For example, projects and products, particularly for new or shared infrastructure solutions
• Consults on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems or infrastructure with the enterprise technology architecture and identify when it is necessary to modify the enterprise technical architecture to accommodate immediate of future project needs
• Creates and delivers working, production ready reference implementations that can be leveraged easily by agile teams
• Works closely with the product managers, product owners, and peers to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience to support required product needs throughout the product lifecycle
• Collaborates with business constituents, other team members, project teams, and staff in various IT functional areas as needed to fulfill the responsibilities described above
• Documents necessary enterprise technology architecture design and analysis work, possibly including project postmortem documentation and metric collection
• Configuring and installing various network devices and services such as, routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS</li>
• Provide Level 2 and 3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues

Minimum Education

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution or equivalent industry experience
• Desired certifications or equivalent in one of these disciplines CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE, CISSP, and or other security certifications
   

Minimum Experience

• 3 plus years of design and implementation experience in IT, with deep knowledge in infrastructure and network design, cloud technologies, and active directory and protocols
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments such as inside out, outside in, and outside out
• Hands on experience with network deployment, management, monitoring, and network analytics tools
   

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities

• CCNP or higher, CCIE preferred
• Proficient understanding of networking protocols for example, IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802 11, QoS
• Proficient understanding of the OSI or TCP and or IP model
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation, and negotiation
• Strong leadership skills
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent planning and organizational skills
• Developing knowledge of information principles and processes
• Developing understanding of network and security architecture
• Developing understanding and knowledge of system development life cycle methodologies such as waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental, synchronize and stabilize, and DevOps
• Developed understanding and knowledge of IT service management and Information Technology Infrastructure Library
• Developed understanding and knowledge of IT standards and controls
• Travel when required

Physical Demands and Work Environment

The physical demands and work environment described here are representative of those that must be met and or encountered by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and communicate.  The employee may be required to stand, walk, and sit. Specific vision abilities required by this job include the ability to view monitors, technical documents, and reference material. The noise level in the work environment is usually low to moderate.