Network Engineer

Job Description :

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

Education:

• BS/MS Degree or equivalent experience
• CCNA/CCNP/CCIE or equivalent experience