Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Lead network related projects to continuously improve enterprise network architecture.
• Ensure network setup for new sites are configured according to design requirements, on-time, tested with internal/external teams, and complete support documentation for support teams.
• Ensure the stable operation of network including planning, developing, installing, configuring, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing company networks.
• Work with remote network engineers to support networking and telecom needs of partner companies while working toward centralizing networking services.
• Act as the level 3 support for issues that cannot be resolved by other support tiers.
• Hands-on experience in Cisco routers and switches (Catalyst and Nexus series), Palo Alto firewalls, SDWAN, Software-Defined Networking (SDN), load balancing, manage and design network infrastructures, and configuring enterprise LAN, WAN, and VPN technologies.
• Knowledge of network protocols (802.1q, 802.1x, STP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PAGP, LACP, VRRP, etc.) and experience implementing protocols in an enterprise network.
• Experience supporting with MPLS, Metro Ethernet, SDWAN, IPSec, Remote VPN, and Wireless.
• Working knowledge of ACLs, Etherchannels, IPSEC, QoS, Spanning Tree (STP), VLANs, VTP, CIDR, VoIP, and NAT.
• Design, deploy, and maintain network hardware including switches, routers, firewalls, VPN appliances, load balancers, wireless, and telecommunication devices.
• Knowledge of Cisco Viptela SDWAN, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), and cloud networking is a plus.
• Experience managing data/voice networking relationships with Managed Service vendors and multiple ISPs to escalate issues when appropriate and drive enterprise projects.
• Assist clients in the daily maintenance of voice and data network infrastructure including LAN, WAN, Wireless, VoIP, and NICs.
• Develop and maintain network documentation including system design, high/low level drawings, configuration standards, procedure manuals, and infrastructure architecture.
• Provide regular status reports on tasks accomplished, current issues, and progress toward goals.
• Provide capacity, performance, uptime, and security reporting as requested.
• Implement industry best practices in terms of availability planning, scalability, and change management.
• Leverage the use of workflow ticketing systems such as ServiceNow.
• Communicate to business clients, technical teams, and management in a consistent manner to make complex technical issues and solutions clear, simple, and understandable.
• Work closely with other members of the Information Technology Department to assist with project implementations and other tasks as requested.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work independently in a fast-paced, multi-business environment.