Network Engineer

Responsibilities :

• Design implement and maintain WAN LAN and SDWAN infrastructure ensuring high availability security and scalability.
• Provide technical expertise and strategic guidance on network architecture upgrades and emerging technologies to meet evolving business needs.
• Translate business requirements into technical solutions producing low-level designs and solution implementation.
• Lead network projects acting as both team leader and individual contributor to deliver on time and within budget.
• Collaborate with internal stakeholders and managed service providers ensuring requirements are understood and met effectively.
• Create and maintain comprehensive network documentation including configurations designs standards and operational processes.
• Assist with incidents & escalations related to networking services or performance troubleshooting to resolution the problem areas as needed.
• Ensure compliance with security and reliability standards implementing best practices for network resilience and risk mitigation.
• Produce and gain peer review approvals of RoC (Record of Change) documents for network changes.
• Gain change management approvals for network changes by submitting well formed ServiceNow change requests with all required details.
• Stay current with industry trends and technologies recommending improvements and innovations to enhance network capabilities.
• Prepare operational readiness: create/maintain configuration standards as built documentation and support runbooks; store artefacts in SharePoint; hand off for UTOC management.

Key Skills and Expertise Required :

• Minimum Cisco CCNP certification level required
• CCIE certification is desirable
• In-depth knowledge of Wireless LAN and NAC solutions (Cisco WLAN Cisco ISE Aruba WLAN Aruba ClearPass)
• In-depth knowledge of SD-WAN solutions (CISCO Viptela)
• In-depth knowledge of routing protocols (BGP OSPF) carrier WAN and Internet services.
• In-depth knowledge of Cisco LAN switching technologies including STP RSTP MSTP VLANs EtherChannel and switch stacking.
• Proficient in configuring and troubleshooting Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches implementing QoS and managing network segmentation and redundancy.
• Ability to produce detailed designs implementation plans and operational support documents.
• Strong stakeholder engagement and coordination across multiple environments.