About the organization A wellestablished communityfocused financial institution headquartered in the Bay Area known for its personalized banking services and longstanding commitment to local communities. The organization offers a full range of financial products including personal and business banking mortgage lending and wealth management. It distinguishes itself through relationshipbased service local decisionmaking and support for regional economic growth through philanthropic initiatives and community engagement.
Position Overview: The Senior Network Engineer performs activities required to design build deploy and support the Enterprise LAN/WAN network and supporting branch operations production datacenters applications telephony and video systems and other devices. This is a technical position that requires strong troubleshooting and analytical skills combined with a keen ability to communicate well in both verbal and written form.
Roles and Responsibilities
Respond troubleshoot identify root causes and remediate issues in a complete documented and timely manner.
Ensure that appropriate monitoring alerting and logging mechanisms are in place and functioning optimally at all times.
Ensure network devices are configured and maintained in accordance with appropriate standards best practices and regulatory compliance requirements. Utilize and follow the change management process for network changes.
Provide Level 3 support to Network Operations for all LAN/WAN issues.
Keep abreast of new technologies and recommend adoption as appropriate. Identify areas for automation or other process improvements.
Participate in team oncall rotation and provide support during project and operationsrelated cutovers.
Partner with business units to understand organizational needs and plan design implement and support production data centers.
Design configure implement and support connectivity to leading Cloud providers per business requirements.
Manage network uptime by auditing and enhancing network monitoring.
Work with crossfunctional teams supporting business applications and onprem infrastructure and cloud.
Proactively identify gaps risks and issues and navigate organizational structure to resolve them.
Plan design and coordinate the implementation of WAN or Internetrelated activities in support of defined requirements generated by business and growth demands.
Validate project requirements define project scope develop project schedules and produce detailed designs for assigned projects.
Perform analysis and diagnosis of highly sophisticated networking problems related to WAN or Internet.
Prepare and maintain uptodate documentation detailing the deployed solutions.
Plan and execute highly sophisticated network upgrades and migration activities.
Assist with deployment and strategy of tools and related Network Management Systems.
Provide mentorship for existing network team members as appropriate.
Qualifications
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or related field (or equivalent experience).
Expert knowledge of Cisco networking equipment and software Cisco CCNA CCNP or equivalent work experience.
Handson Senior Network Engineer with over 4 years of experience in network design architecture and administration of multiplatform LAN/WAN environments.
Demonstrated ability to systematically troubleshoot problems in complex systems and network environments.
Experience designing and supporting highavailability networks in loadbalanced ntier application environments.
Experience supporting secure enterprise wireless networks including Meraki knowledge and experience.
4 years of experience with planning and design of customerfacing production data centers.
Strong knowledge and experience in IP networking L2/L3 network protocols (spanningtree OSPF BGP) LAN/WAN TCP/IP DHCP DNS routing QoS VLAN ACL NAC.
Strong WAN background.
SDWAN project implementation experience a plus.
Expert knowledge in building hybrid cloud approaches.
Expert knowledge and experience with VPN encryption technologies modern switching platforms and firewalls including policy implementation and capacity management.
Expert knowledge of Cisco equipment is highly desirable.
Expert knowledge and experience with routing protocols and traffic engineering.
Experience with infrastructure testing and troubleshooting tools including packet capture devices network equipment debug and diagnostics (Wireshark NetFlow SolarWinds Orion).
Experience in security policy implementation and managing the design and support of network environments to maintain policy integrity.
Experience improving network monitoring to avoid service disruptions.
Proven ability to manage missioncritical highly visible infrastructure projects to completion.
Experience in telephony and understanding of various standards.
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