Network Engineer

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Cupertino, CA

LOCAL ONLY- Ex-Apple Preferred

Job Description:

Job Summary:

There is an opportunity available for a customer service oriented, self-driven, and motivated Network Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate should possess excellent communication and troubleshooting skills as well as a solid working knowledge of LAN/WAN networking technologies. You will run and expand the existing network infrastructure used by the various labs in the Cupertino area.

Key Qualifications:

8+ years of experience supporting LAN networking hardware
Experience working in a high-uptime, high-availability environment
Experience with designing, building / rebuilding, administering, troubleshooting lab or data center network infrastructures (either spread L2 or standard L3 [spine / leaf] architectures)
Experience supporting a multi-vendor, multi-topology networking environment that includes Arista or Cisco equipment
Experience with medium scale (hundreds of switches) IPv4/IPv6 topologies running BGP v4 and OSPF v2/v3
Experience with High Availability Design using MLAG / vPC / LACP / MST/PVST combined with VRRP/HSRP/ VARP
Experience with deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting firewall infrastructures (including NAT deployments)
Experience using scripting languages like Python, Ruby, Perl, bash strongly desired
Experience supporting Windows environments (standard configuration, application of patches) preferred
Knowledge of common application protocols like DNS, LDAP, NFS, SNMP, NTP
Knowledge of configuration management and revision control software
Ability to drive all aspects of brown-field network refresh projects (act as both network admin / architect and project manager to design, document, purchase, install, configure, troubleshoot, administer a replacement network infrastructure on the scale of many dozen switches at a time)
Ability to participate in a regular on-call rotation

Description:

Perform implementation, maintenance, monitoring, performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting, and continual improvement of the network infrastructure
Drive automation of the implementation, maintenance, and alerting of the network environment
Deploy and maintain a production network infrastructure that requires 24/7 global accessibility
Review entire environment and execute initiatives to reduce failures, defects and improving overall performance
Coordinate network maintenance with systems administrators
Perform tasks that require different perspectives and creative approaches
Will be responsible for addressing networking issues as part of a on-call rotation

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