[Hiring] Senior Network Engineer @United Data Technologies

Role Description

The Senior Network Engineer at UDT is an expert at working in a Cisco & Fortinet powered carrier grade network. This role is responsible for provisioning new services for customers and maintaining the service provider network. This role provides technical leadership and support for internal teams and for UDT’s customers. This role is tasked with managing the service provider network, including aspects such as ensuring availability and uptime, measuring performance, and facilitating growth and expansion.

• Design, build, implement, and support new network architectures in a predominantly Cisco & Fortinet environment.
• Serve as a technical lead on new contracts.
• Responsible for design standardization that is maintained throughout the team.
• Administer and maintain existing service provider network.
• Troubleshoot complex customer issues and coordinate third party vendor interaction to ensure prompt and professional resolution.
• Serve as an escalation point within the team.
• Work with the Engineering team to address capacity issues throughout the network.
• Assist Engineering leadership on capacity planning and growth for the service provider network.
• Write and deploy automation and scripting to make the service provider group more efficient at service provisioning and service support.
• Create technical documentation for customers and for other departments to share knowledge.
• Serve as technical consultant to our sales teams.
• Lead the team through knowledge transfer, cross-training, and documentation in a group setting.
• Assist in researching, evaluating, and recommending new technologies to management for consideration.
• After-hours on-call support rotation.
• Other duties as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Telecommunications, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience is required.
• 10+ years of technical experience working in a carrier grade MSP network may be considered as a substitute.
• CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional) is required.
• Fortinet NSE-4 FortiOS & FortiGate Administrator are required.
• RHCE is a plus.
• 10+ years’ experience working with various routing protocols and technologies such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, MPLS, QOS, Multicasting.
• Strong understanding of layer 2 networks and topologies as it relates to design in Metro Ethernet deployments.
• 4+ years’ experience working with automation tools like Ansible or using code to run scripts (Python).

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package based on performance.
• Medical, dental, vision, life and disability coverage as of the 1st of the month.
• Health savings accounts and flexible savings accounts.
• 401(k) plan with company match.
• 7 annual holidays and unlimited paid time off.

Company Description

UDT is a technology enabler that helps clients in major industries evaluate, architect, provide, secure, and manage technology on the go, in the rack and in the cloud. UDT provides technical, professional, cyber security and managed services.