Lead Network Engineer

PSR Associates, Inc.; Jersey City (NJ); Hybrid; USD 75,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is on the lookout for a Senior Network Engineer to join their innovative team in Jersey City. This role offers the opportunity to work on exciting projects, including the migration of core networking solutions from Cisco to Arista. You will leverage your extensive experience in networking protocols, automation, and security to enhance the company's infrastructure. If you have a passion for technology and a desire to make a significant impact, this is the perfect opportunity for you. Join a dynamic environment that values collaboration and innovation, and take your career to the next level.

Benefits

Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in networking and network security.
• Experience in migrating from Cisco to Arista networking solutions.
• Ability to conduct network operational analysis.

Responsibilities

• Migrate core and server-farm distribution switches from Cisco to Arista.
• Implement vxlan/evpn and BGP end-to-end using automation.
• Develop config templates for designs and deployments.

Skills

BGP

EVPN

vxlan

Python

Ansible

JSON

Network Security

Automation

Tools

Arista

Cisco

Palo Alto

F5

Elasticsearch

Grafana

Cloud-Flare

Wireshark

Job description

Direct message the job poster from PSR Associates, Inc.

**Seeking candidates who are within a commutable distance to Jersey City, NJ**

About the Role

PSR Associates is immediately seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our client on a fulltime basis.

Client: A leading Financial Services Company

Location: Hybrid (Tue-Thurs onsite) in Jersey City, NJ

Position Type: Fulltime - Direct hire role.

The candidate that is ideal for this position will have either done or been exposed to the following:

Designing and or implementing vxlan/evpn on Arista (without Cloud Vision Portal)

• EVPN route-types
• VTEP peering’s and head-end-replication
• Migrating from Cisco ACI to Arista vxlan/evpn
• L2-Stretch between three datacenters for VM hosts that are SRM protected

Understanding of BGP protocol

• Doing end to end BGP with 4-byte ASN
• Migrating from EIGRP to BGP
• BGP route-tagging and path preferences

Multicast routing which includes PTP

• Segmenting multicast L3 routing from evpn (non stretched vlan)
• Symmetric routing for PTP multicast between vlan’s within a vxlan/evpn fabric

Automation and Observability

• Developing config templates for all designs and deployments using inhouse automation tools along with Itential
• Understanding of Python, JinJa, JSON, Ansible
• Understanding of open-telemetry, gnmi, grpc, logstash, Elasticsearch
• Basic understanding of using AI for network automation and observability (not mandatory as we will be implementing this for the first time)

Example of a planned project this resource will be a part of.

Job Description/Daily Tasks –

• Senior Network Engineer who will be working on migrating our core, wan and server-farm distribution switches globally from Cisco to Arista
• This includes implementing vxlan/evpn, bgp end to end using 4-byte ASN, using automation for configuration templating and open-telemetry for observability and real-time monitoring in Elasticsearch

Technical Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical experience in networking, network security and team leadership.
• Working understanding of open-standard networking protocols and the ability to identify and implement these protocols at an enterprise level.
• Ability to conduct Network Operational analysis to solve issues using network flow analysis, packet captures and event correlation tools.
• Experience building out multi sized datacenters, campuses and branch sites using enterprise architecture principles, industry standards and best practices.
• Network Security experience designing and implementing firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and NAC solutions for data and endpoint protection.
• Experience in multiple technical domains such as server, storage, desktop, security, and network infrastructure.
• Working knowledge implementing Cloud networking solutions with AWS and Azure
• Deep understanding of networking and firewall hardware platforms for Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, F5 and Aruba Silver-Peak
• Experience designing and implementing cloud hosted SaaS solutions for end user remote and branch secure connection.
• Working knowledge on building and implementing a network automation design that automates networking tasks across multiple vendors and platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting networks that host trading applications collocated.

Current Environment: Vendors and Protocols:

• Networking: Cisco, Arista, Aruba Silver-Peak (SD-WAN)
• Firewall and SaaS: Palo Alto, Prisma Access
• Load-Balancers and WAFs: F5 Big-IP, Cloud-Flare, A10 Networks (optional)
• DDOS: Cloud-Flare and Radware
• Network Observability: cPacket, Viavi, Wireshark, Thousand-Eyes, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Telegraf, Logstash
• Wireless: Cisco and Juniper MIST
• Networking Protocols: BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, Multicast, MLAG, VPC, MSTP, Rapid-PVST+, LACP, mutual route redistribution, VXLAN, eVPN
• Programming and Automation: Python, JSON, Jinja, Ansible, YAML, Itential workflow automation

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Information Technology

• Industries

  IT Services and IT Consulting

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Medical insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

Paid maternity leave

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