Sr. Network Engineer

OtterBase; Columbus (OH); On-site; USD 75,768 - 82,656; Full time

Job summary

A technology firm in Columbus is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design and implement network solutions. The role requires collaboration on technology changes and ensuring network security, performance, and reliability. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and over five years of IT experience, along with strong knowledge of core network specializations. This full-time position offers a salary range of $55-$60 per hour, based on skills and experience.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of design and implementation experience in IT.
• Good understanding of project management and agile principles.
• Experience presenting to senior-level executives.

Responsibilities

• Design robust and scalable network solutions.
• Document network configurations and diagrams.
• Choose appropriate networking protocols and technologies.

Skills

Knowledge in core network specializations

Proficiency in learning modern technologies

Understanding of backend development languages

Knowledge of IT service management

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field

Job description

This range is provided by OtterBase. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

$55.00/hr - $60.00/hr

Senior Network Engineer provides the technical delivery consulting role in the Infrastructure and Application Delivery lifecycles from detailed design, integration, maintenance, and upgrades of network hardware, software, and standards across the enterprise as it relates to the OSUMC on-perm and cloud network. The Network Engineer defines and follows discrete procedures and protocols to ensure network integrity and compliance, and monitors network utilization, user functions, and performance metrics as required. The Network Engineer analyzes project requirements and solution designs to assure that the network is functionally appropriate, technically valid, and well-integrated with on-perm and cloud in accordance with the security, business user requirements, methods, and standards throughout the project life cycle.

Responsibilities

• The Senior Network Engineer will design robust and scalable network solutions with a long-term vision, ensuring they align with business objectives and meet the organization's needs while ensuring security, performance, and reliability.
• Designing LANs, WANs, data center networks, wireless networks, and hybrid cloud networks. Document network flows, configurations, diagrams, and procedures to ensure consistency and facilitate knowledge transfer. Adhere to industry standards and best practices in network design.
• Based on the design requirements, choose appropriate networking protocols and technologies. This may involve selecting routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, BGP), switching protocols (e.g., VLANs, STP), and network hardware (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls).
• Provide guidance to Implement techniques such as network segmentation, access control lists (ACLs), encryption, VPNs, intrusion detection/prevention systems (IDS/IPS), and security policies.
• Seamless integration of the network infrastructure with other IT systems and services, such as servers, storage, virtualization platforms, and cloud services
• Executes the network leadership's vision and research industry trends and modern technologies to proactively identify opportunities to innovate and improve the quality of the network portfolio
• Pursues methods for increased efficiency, using network automation principles along with software vendor APIs and custom scripting/programming to develop new practices and processes that alleviate the team from manually completing repeatable tasks.

Key Roles

• Technical leadership and collaboration to drive technology change to deliver business outcomes.
• Oversight or consultation on technology implementation and modification activities for new or shared infrastructure solutions.
• Consultation on application or infrastructure development projects to harmonize systems with the enterprise technology architecture.
• Creation of production-ready IT services that agile teams can leverage.
• Collaboration with project managers, owners, and engineers to enable infrastructure agility, scalability, and resilience.
• Documentation for enterprise technology architecture design and analysis, including postmortem and metrics.
• Provide L4 production infrastructure support.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, system analysis, related study, or equivalent experience.
• A minimum of five years of design and implementation experience in IT, with deep knowledge in infrastructure and network design, and security.
• Good understanding of project management, agile principles, and development methodologies; ability to support agile teams by providing guidance on opportunities, impact, and risks.
• Experience delivering presentations to senior-level executives and technical audiences.
• Exposure to diverse technical configurations, technologies, and processing environments.
• Skilled at collaborating with SMEs and business owners, and facilitating decision-making with stakeholders and peers.

Skills

• Knowledge in core network specializations, including routing protocols, virtualized routing, multicast, VPN, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and security services.
• Proficiency in learning and researching modern technologies, developing and testing solutions, and transitioning solutions to production.
• Understanding of backend development languages, databases, cloud-based SaaS and PaaS.
• Understanding of cloud, integration, network, and security within technology architecture.
• Knowledge of IT service management (ITSM) and ITIL.
• Knowledge of financial models and budgeting.
• Knowledge of information principles and processes.
• Knowledge of network and security architecture and SDLC methodologies (e.g., waterfall, agile, DevOps).

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet

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