Network Engineer

CereCore; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

CereCore in Nashville is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain nationwide enterprise WAN/LAN solutions, applying best-practice switching/routing and OSI model expertise.

The role demands strong communication, project management, and collaboration with vendors and IT&S teams to meet business requirements and service levels.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar field.
• 7+ years of Network Engineer experience.
• Experience working with Firewalls (Check Point), VPN technologies, basic routing knowledge, load balancer (F5), Cisco.
• Excellent communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain nation-wide, enterprise WAN/LAN solutions with best practice switching/routing.
• In-depth understanding of OSI model and Layer 1/2 technologies.
• Provide engineering consultations for Level III network troubleshooting and protocol analysis.
• Perform network capacity planning and traffic pattern analyses.
• Coordinate with vendors and IT&S personnel and ensure ITIL-based change management.
• Act as technical lead for projects, ensuring on-time delivery.

Skills

Communication skills

Project management

ITIL knowledge

LAN/WAN design

Network troubleshooting

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology

Tools

Check Point

F5 BigIP

Citrix NetScaler

Cisco ASA

SSL-VPN

Job description

Provide Enterprise data networking designs, services, consulting, and support in a fortune 100 company environment with national reach. These responsibilities will require the candidate to be a Subject Matter Expert across network technologies, services, and additional related components (as listed for this position). The candidate must provide solutions that meet HCA network requirements and maintain networking service levels.

This position will interact daily with the Availability Center, Customer Support, Business Partners, Vendors, IT&S personnel, as well as the end users on developing network solutions to meet business requirements. Excellent written and oral communications skills regarding presentations, technical white papers, and network proposals will be required. Project management and problem management skills are required to effectively meet business objectives and Service Level Agreements.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain complex nation-wide, enterprise WAN/LAN solutions, utilizing best practice switching/routing technologies and topologies. (ie: Fortune 100 experience in network design, deployment and support)
• In-depth understanding of OSI model
• Layer 1 technologies including fiber optic cabling, copper cabling, patch panels, and connector types
• Layer 2 technologies including VTP, ISL and 802.1Q trunking, spanning-tree, VLANs
• OSPF/BGP routing protocols, IP advertising/filtering/redistribution, Quality of Service, IP multicast
• Engineering consultations for Level III network troubleshooting/problem resolution, protocol analysis, network troubleshooting/problem determination skills with network trace/capture/analysis software
• Understanding of end-to-end data flows and traffic patterns.
• Network impact analysis, modeling, network capacity planning
• Software/hardware device upgrades, LAN equipment configurations/provisioning (see specific technologies within Area of Experience section).
• Wide Area Network technology provisioning and configuration (i.e. MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay) and WAN equipment configurations for bandwidth rates from sub-rate T1 to 10Gb, as well as Metro-E connectivity from 10Mb to 10Gb
• Networking services such as AAA, DHCP, DNS, ICMP and SNMP
• Design and implementation for network security technologies and products (Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, Juniper SSL and Citrix NetScaler)
• Remote access technologies (i.e. SSL-VPN, IPSec, B2B, private line).
• F5 BigIP load-balancing design and configuration
• Creating/maintaining/following network standards and policies/procedural documentation and enterprise level network diagramming
• Certification, Proof of Concept, and/or integration testing.
• Working with vendors on product design enhancements to integrate new technologies
• Project Management and problem management skillsets
• Meet IT&S change management and project management requirements
• ITIL Knowledge
• Minimal travel for network analysis, network upgrades and customer network consultations
• Act as a technical lead for projects, ensuring work is being completed accurately and on-time

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar field
• 7+ years of Network Engineer experience
• Experience working with Firewalls (Check Point), VPN technologies, basic routing knowledge, load balancer (F5), Cisco
• Candidates must have excellent communication skills