Network Engineer Onsite Albany, NY

Albany, GA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 10 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What success looks like in this role:

Provide Network Engineering support for all network segments and applications.

Act as L1/2 escalation for P1/P2 incidents; lead triage stabilization and post-incident RCA with clear corrective actions.

Troubleshoot routing switching wireless firewall load balancing and VPN issues across multi-vendor environments.

Optimize performance (QoS congestion control path selection) and reduce chronic incident recurrence.

Own changes from design review through implementation and validation aligning with ITSM/ITIL change control and documentation.

Collaborate with InfoSec on risk assessments hardening and compensating controls.

Manage and optimize connectivity to public cloud (Azure/AWS): ExpressRoute/Direct Connect hybrid routing private endpoints.

Support SD-WAN traffic steering and cloud edge security integration.

Maintain robust observability (SNMP flow telemetry synthetic tests packet captures logs NPM/APM tools).

o Utilize NPM tools (e.g. SolarWinds ThousandEyes) packet capture (Wireshark) NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX syslog/SIEM or similar tools

Build automation for configuration compliance and repeatable changes (e.g. Ansible/Netmiko/Python) including templating and guardrails.

Author and maintain network standards runbooks validated configurations and diagrams (as-built/target state).

Execute ITIL processes (Incident Problem Change Configuration Management) with precise records suitable for audits.

Partner with OT Lab IT Manufacturing Application and Security teams to deliver solutions aligned to business and regulatory needs.

Ability to rack/stack equipment and work in data center/lab/manufacturing areas with appropriate PPE.

Work with cross-functional teams to design solutions for expanding connectivity while maintaining overall network performance and integrity.

You will be successful in this role if you have:

Experience: 2-4 years relevant network experience and/or with network related certification(s) (e.g. CCNA) - desirable but not required.

Routing/Switching: Knowledge of IPv4/IPv6 OSPF BGP EIGRP HSRP/VRRP STP/RSTP/MST MLAG/VPC ECMP multicast fundamentals.

Technology: Experience with Cisco (Catalyst/Nexus/Meraki) required - Juniper Arista; SD-Access; OT protocols and segmentation ae a plus.

Knowledge of routing and switching protocols (BGP OSPF EIGRP).

Data Center: Experience with spine-leaf/fabric designs; familiarity with VXLAN/EVPN and L2/L3 overlays.

Wireless/NAC: Enterprise WLAN (controllers RF design WPA2-Enterprise/802.1X) NAC (e.g. Cisco ISE) role-based access policies.

SD-WAN: Policy-based path selection application steering HA design integration with cloud edges.

Load Balancing: F5/NGINX/AVI or equivalent for L4L7 services TLS offload persistence health monitors.

Cloud Networking: Azure VNets VNet peering Private Link/ExpressRoute; AWS VPCs TGW Direct Connect; hybrid routing and security patterns.

Experience with zero-trust network principles micro-segmentation platforms and certificate/PKI operations.

Observability: Hands-on with NPM tools (e.g. SolarWinds ThousandEyes) packet capture (Wireshark) NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX syslog/SIEM.

Automation/Scripting: Practical experience with Ansible and Python for network tasks (templates compliance checks bulk updates).

Process: ITIL familiarity and disciplined change management in 24x7 production settings.

Soft Skills: Clear communicator calm under pressure able to lead incidents and influence cross-functional teams.

This role may require access to export-controlled commodities and technology. Therefore to conform to U.S. export control regulations applicant should be eligible for any required authorizations from the U.S. Government.

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Required Experience:

What success looks like in this role: Provide Network Engineering support for all network segments and applications. Act as L1/2 escalation for P1/P2 incidents; lead triage stabilization and post-incident RCA with clear corrective actions. Troubleshoot routing switching wireless firewall load balan...