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The Senior Network Engineer will lead network reliability, performance, and incident response, while designing and implementing scalable solutions across data centers and cloud environments, ensuring compliance with FedRAMP requirements.
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Cloud • Information Technology • Security • Software
The Senior Network Engineer will design, implement, and maintain network solutions across data centers and cloud platforms, ensuring compliance with FedRAMP standards while leading incident responses and engineering automation workflows.
Top Skills:
AnsibleAWSAzureBgpGCPGitOspfPython
Information Technology • Software
The Network Engineer will lead engineering implementation, support network integration, troubleshooting, and ensure successful project transitions within telecommunications networks for military operations.
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Work Experience
- Previous 3-5 years of experience supporting Cisco networking technologies in large enterprise environments.
- Hands-on experience of 3-5 years with Microsoft Azure networking or experience with another major public cloud platform required.
- Experience with network automation and orchestration using Ansible, Terraform, or similar tools.
- Experience with supporting SD-WAN (Cisco Viptela preferred) and/or SDN solutions (Cisco ACI a plus).
- Familiar with disaster recovery planning and network resiliency.
- Experience with TLS/SSL certificate management, including renewal processes, chain validation, and troubleshooting in platforms such as Sectigo and Cloudflare.
- Experience with Cloudflare/CDN configuration such as bot management.
Knowledge / Skills / Abilities
- Knowledge of IP networking, routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, VRF, etc.), and Cisco enterprise technologies.
- Familiar with data center hardware, virtualization, and load balancing (F5 BigIP, Azure Load Balancer, NGINX).
- Knowledge of Wi-Fi design, implementation, and troubleshooting.
- Confident and capable in troubleshooting network related issues.
- Strong understanding of DNS concepts and management.
- Knowledge of ITSM/ITIL practices and industry best practices for infrastructure design and management.
- Familiar with Jira and Confluence software.
- Experience with Cisco DNAC is a plus.
- Strong interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to work in our Chicagoland facilities with hybrid schedule and up to 10% overnight travel.
Education
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Technical certifications: CCNA required; CCNP preferred.
- Azure certifications or other public cloud certifications (AWS, GCP) highly desirable.
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