Senior Network Engineer
Location: Albany NY Must be local to the area. Its Hybrid
Must have excellent communication skills
Core Duties and Responsibilities
- Coordinate network strategies participate in technology selection activities and work with the business and IT stakeholders to ensure the longterm network infrastructure technology plan.
- Collaborate with executive leadership to develop and communicate long term vision and comprehensive strategic plans for infrastructure and enterprise architecture solutions.
- Serve as a handson technical expert for enterprisewide network infrastructure technology.
- Define principles/standards for infrastructure and/or enterprise architecture.
- Lead vendor evaluation and selection of network technology solution.
- Design and implement new network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks.
- Assist the Operations team with the installation configuration and support of networking equipment including NextGen firewalls routers switches and WAN performance and monitoring.
- Network Design & Implementation: Develop and implement enterprisewide network architectures including WAN LAN and WiFi designs ensuring scalability and security.
- Conduct research on network products services protocols and standards to remain abreast of developments in the networking industry.
- Oversee new and existing equipment hardware and software upgrades.
- Create complex design artifacts including network layouts and logical/physical designs.
- Ensure proper documentation including design procedural and lessons learned; maintain and update existing documentation.
- Develop and evaluate system/network performance criteria and measurement methods.
- Research current technology and provide ongoing information to management peers and network users regarding enhancements and innovations.
- Attend meetings with business stakeholders to assess needs and provide effective network solutions aligned with organizational goals.
- Assist the operations team with the management and monitoring of enterprise networks including (but not limited to) LAN/WAN//SAN/OT/IoT/Hybrid Cloud
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills with the ability to convey complex technical information to nontechnical stakeholders.
- Ability to work collaboratively with crossfunctional teams providing technical leadership.
Education and Experience
- Bachelors degree or equivalent in Business Administration Computer Science Information Systems or related area of study
- 7 years of experience providing network systems design implementation and support in an enterpriseclass environment with a complex network architecture.
- Experience with Network Design in complex environments (legacy and SDA).
- Exposure to IPSec frameworks and encryption techniques.
- Experience with IPv4 and IPv6 connectionless protocols BGP EIGRP MPLS DMVPN VxLAN routing protocols including iSCSI and fibre channel storage network protocols.
- Insight and experience with ESX networking including distributed switching.
- Experience integrating Legacy/old Hardware into the DNA platform.
- Extensive experience with Wireless (WiFi) network design implementation and maintenance.
- Experience configuring policies on an Client server to support rolebased network access control.
- Experience with Cisco routing and Aruba (AOSCX) switching.
- Experience with Cisco Next Gen Firewalls.
Cisco certifications highly desired.