Senior Network Engineer Job Description
Successful individuals in this role will be network engineers with a strong background in Layer 2 and
Layer 3 technologies, who work well and communicate effectively with others, are self-starting, creative,
and able to think through a project from start to finish. Peak network engineers are expected to take
total ownership of our customers' networks; from architecture, design, and documentation through deployment
and maintenance.
Peak engineers have a great deal of autonomy, and are expected to be able to manage their time effectively.
This position requires an individual who is able to work successfully in a virtual environment, and who
does not require direct supervision. Candidates should be able to work with a remote team, and to take
constructive feedback and input from other engineers. Some travel may be required.
The following is a list of skills and abilities that a Peak network engineer should possess:
Vendor Experience
- Foundry - Big Iron, Fast Iron, or NetIron
- Cisco - 7200, 6500, 7600, 2900, 4500, PIX or FWSX
- Force10 - S-Series and E-Series
- Juniper - M or T Series and NetScreen Firewalls.
- Load Balancers - Citrix / NetScaler, F5 Big IP, Foundry Server Iron, or Cisco CSM
Layer 2 Experience
- Spanning-Tree, including 802.1d and 802.1w
- Trunking (Ether-channel)
- 802.1q vlan tagging
- Dark Fiber with short, long, and extended reach optics
- CWDM or DWDM gear with Dark Fiber
- 10 Gig Ethernet
- Strong troubleshooting skills and effective troubleshooting methods including:
- layer 1 (copper cabling troubles / fiber signal strength)
- layer 2 (spanning tree, vlan tagging, mac address tracing)
- layer 3 (routing troubles, EGP versus IGP redistribution, BGP attribute studying, prefix length issues)
- layer 4 (firewall troubles),
- layer 5 thru 7 (assisting with identifying application issues masquerading as network troubles)
- MPLS Experience a plus
Layer 3 Experience
- OSPF Routing including route redistribution
- BGP
- multihoming
- Load balancing traffic and engineering for automatic failover
- Multiple methods for equal-cost load balancing
- Routing policy to manipulate BGP attributes to hit 95% billing
- Isolation of routing policies between multiple datacenters including community attribute schemes
- Route reflectors and Confederations
- Flow analysis experience a plus
Architecture and Design
- Design work for content networks scalable to 100 Gigs or more
- Routing policy for auto-failover, transit policy segregation, and 95% billing minimized
- National Backbone architecture or design
- Understanding of peering policies vs. transit policies
- Understanding the current state of the Internet's network major players and quality between vendors
- Visio design/diagramming skills
Best Practices and Work Ethic
- Working with ticket queue to track tasks and projects
- Documenting on a wiki and in Visio all network topology changes
- Customer Facing with excellent social skills
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Willingness and ability to teach and train others
- Meticulous and careful in their work - no cowboys
- Patience to adhere to best practices including maintenance windows and change control procedures
- Self motivated to take ownership of projects without much supervision
- Ability to time-slice between multiple networks and multiple customer requirements
- Travel requirements to be negotiated
- Ability to accept constructive criticism via strict peer review
Email resumes to: hiring@peakwebconsulting.com
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