Senior Network Engineer

Role Summary

The Senior Network Engineer reviews, analyzes, designs, modifies, develops and implements networking technologies

and networking products as well as being lead on building and maintaining our Global MPLS network. The candidate will help support and troubleshoot production problems and develop and enforce best practices in configuration management, application deployment, and network security. This role is also lead for identifying and implementing new satellite/network solutions to meet business unit and client requirements, conducting research, developing and testing of new technologies, products and services.

*The ideal candidate would come from experience in a Service Provider environment*

Location

• Onsite required: Fort Lauderdale, FL

What You Will Be Doing

• Work closely with product management team to determine the most profitable roadmap for each existing and new products


• Focus on implementing networking related projects and programs that consistently generate new, high-quality leads for our company


• Maintain and manage competitive intelligence and comparisons by working with cross-functional stakeholders and executing self-led research


• Assist leadership on calls when appropriate to provide deeper dives into technologies


• Speak and present both internally and externally to promote our products and services


• Assist with tech aspect of product content such as case studies, videos, website copy and blog posts (where appropriate)


• Gain insight into customer use of current products, untapped opportunities, and buyer personas


• Provide Product Engineering with overview of new product or new features for existing products


• Provide Level 3 escalation support for any network or IP related problems as deemed capable


• Maintain network related standards and procedures to be used by other technical departments, including Network


• Services, Tech Services and the NOC


• Perform R&D on new innovative ways to improve the network and associated services


• Other related tasks as may be assigned.

Education

• BS or MS in related engineering field

Work Experience

• 1+ years of experience in cyber security or related preferred *but not required*


• 3+ years of experience in Service Provider Environment *highly desired*


• 5+ years of extensive experience in Network Engineering *required*

Essential Experience

• MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS, RIP, BGP, Multicast


• Cisco IOS, XR, XE


• Firewalls: Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet


• OpenSource tools


• Linux

Desired Experience

• Excellent written and verbal skills with the ability to explain complex subject matter in simple but accurate terms


• Ability to work under pressure with aggressive deadlines


• Must have experience in technical writing


• Wide range business exposure a plus

Skills

• Multi-tasking


• Autonomous


• Proactive


• Strong Interpersonal skills with clarity of communication in writing and verbally

Expectations

• Reporting: This position reports to the Director of Engineering.


• Interactions: This position directly work with all other internal technical teams as well as technical contacts at vendors and customers.


• Physical/Sensory Demands: Daily contact and interface with operations staff, company personnel, customers, vendors and contract services personnel. Heavy compute use. Read equipment settings on small LCD screens.