World Wide Technology is looking for a Network Engineer. This job is part of WWT’s Strategic Resourcing services. The candidate will be supporting a WWT customer and will be employed by one of WWT’s preferred partners.

Considering only Green Card Holders & US Citizens and local to Colorado Spring, CO

Role: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Colorado Spring, CO

Job Description

Job Responsibilities:

Global Network Operations:

• Support, maintain and solution network global infrastructure (Data, Security) as part of the global network operations team, organized by region (APAC, EMEA & Americas) in a “follow the sun” model.
• Troubleshoot complex network (LAN, WAN, DNS, etc.) and firewall-related issues.
• Acts as primary point of escalation and subject matter expert for network operations in the EMEA region.
• Provide technical leadership and expertise to the global operations team, particularly in the EMEA region.
• Proactively pinpoint and eliminate network performance bottlenecks impacting business workloads and steadily improve network uptime.
• Proactively work to enhance network security and participate as needed in security incident response efforts as a network SME.
• Continuous improvements - participates in Problem Management, post-mortems, root cause analysis and accelerate/advance the resolution of incidents impacting critical production environments & prolonging escalations.

Global Network Solutions, Implementation and Technology:

• Contribute in exciting global projects – site buildouts, new acquisitions, new technology deployments, technology refreshes, network security enhancements, etc.
• Acts as primary engineer for M&A implementation and tech refresh activities in Germany, one of two primary engineers for the rest of the EMEA region (some travel required)
• Potentially assist with business engagement/stakeholder communications for new deployments or continuous improvement initiatives. Candidate needs to be comfortable with collaborating closely with business stakeholders.
• Willingness to work flexible hours including weekend and holiday coverage for any operational or project needs.
• Travel as needed to support deployment activities throughout the EMEA region.

Job Qualifications

We’re looking for a diversely skilled, experienced network engineer with these qualifications:

• BS in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology or equivalent certification and/or experience
• 5+ years of hands-on network and security experience.
• Cisco certification is a must, preferably CCNP. More advanced certification and/or security specialization are a plus.
• An ideal candidate will have experience or certification with some or all of the following technologies:
• SolarWinds
• Palo Alto Networks firewalls
• Fortinet firewalls
• Riverbed Steelhead
• Wan Optimization
• Performance Management

 Cisco SDWAN

 Cisco Wireless

 Cisco Routing/Switches (Catalyst and Nexus platforms)

 Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure

 Cisco Identity Services Engine

 Cisco DNA Center

 InfoBlox DDI

 A10 Load Balancers

 Juniper Switches