Lead network Engineer

• BS, CS, or equivalent plus 5+ years progressive experience in network engineering, development or telecommunications support environment.
• Experience with Python
• Expertise on latest Cisco hardware and operating systems (CRS, Nexus, IOS-XR, NX-OS)
• IP internetworking and Routing & Switching.
• Expert level internetworking troubleshooting in a large scale network environment.
• WAN circuits and protocols (Ethernet, MPLS).
• Dynamic IP Routing protocols (OSPF, ISIS, BGP, PIM Multicast).
• Expertise in AS connectivity (eBGP, MPLS)
• Requires strong interpersonal and organizational skills, including the ability to meet deadlines, work in a team environment, follow written policies and procedures, and maintain superior customer service at all times.
• Must exercise a reasonable amount of independent judgment under a minimum of supervision.
• Provide extraordinary service.

Other knowledge areas for this role are as follows:

• High Availability protocols and Global Server Load Balancing technologies
• Stateful firewalls, SSL, VPN
• Virtualization technologies, both networking (VRF, VDC, Nexus1kv) and compute (VMware, Openstack)
• Knowledge of network management, network availability and capacity planning.
• Understanding of Software Development Life Cycle, Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery.
• Knowledge of Cisco ASA and or Firepower
• “Cloud” (supporting IaaS) experience desirable
• CCIE or equivalent is a plus.