Sr Network Engineer Architect

Sr Network Engineer /Architect

Location: Redwood city California (Day 1 onsite)

12 Months LongTerm Contract

Position Summary:

• Monitor support and maintain the global enterprise network infrastructure including WAN LAN WLAN RVPN Internet and Cloud connectivity.
• Respond to network incidents outages and performance issues ensuring quick recovery and minimal impact on business operations while proactively notifying customers and communicating business impact.
• Perform detailed root cause analysis and drive long-term corrective actions in collaboration with network engineering and vendor teams.
• Execute change management activities with proper planning risk assessment and validation - including configuration maintenance and software upgrades (routers switches firewalls wireless controllers load balancers WAN accelerators) - in coordination with site IT teams for predictable results.
• Analyze and optimize network performance using tools such as SevOne Grafana SolarWinds or NetMRI identifying areas for improvement and capacity planning.
• Coordinate with service providers and vendors to track and resolve connectivity and performance issues ensuring SLA compliance
• Support and validate new deployments projects and technology integrations in collaboration with Network Engineering Security and Infrastructure teams.
• Contribute to the development and improvement of network monitoring alerting and automation processes to enhance operational efficiency and reliability.
• Configure manage and troubleshoot complex routing protocols and technologies including OSPF and BGP across enterprise and cloud environments.
• Manage the installation renewal and validation of SSL/TLS certificates for network management access on all supported devices and for application load balancer virtual IPs (VIPs).
• Implement and validate firewall security policies and NAT rules in accordance with customer requirements security standards support IPSec VPN tunnels between the enterprise network and third-party vendors or spoke sites including testing documentation and ongoing operational support and approved change processes.
• Perform regular and planned failover testing activities to validate network resiliency and high-availability designs ensuring minimal service disruption.