Key Responsibilities

  • Work with Cisco, Juniper and Brocade switches/routers, Juniper firewalls, and Brocade/Citrix load balancers daily.
  • Provide advanced level technical support for all networking and security products.
  • Oversee and/or participate in projects locally and remotely involving, but not limited to, network design, product design, continuous network expansions, and data center build outs.
  • Proactive management of network capacity and traffic engineering.
  • Assist Network Solution Engineers with the design of custom service requests for customers
  • Train and work with NOE staff in implementation and support of our Data Center Network.
  • Train and work with NOC staff to reinforce first call resolution.
  • Collaborate daily with an international team of employees in Network Engineering, Data Center Operations, Sales, IT, and Customer Experience.
  • Assist with customer escalations and issues.
  • Ensure network is compliant with our various certifications.
  • Assist leadership with audits and network assessments.
  • Extremely responsive to all client telephone calls and emails.
  • Represent the company in a professional manner.
  • Travel may be required.

Education
  • Degree or diploma in technology in a telecommunications or networking related program, or equivalent education and experience.
  • Certifications with Cisco and/or Juniper or equivalent.

Work Experience
  • 5-10 years of network engineering experience
  • 3+ years of experience with data center and/or service provider networks.
  • Experience in high availability, global backbone design and architecture is highly preferred.
  • Expert-level certifications (e.g. CCIE, JNCIE) are preferred.

Specific Competencies
  • Strong grasp of TCP/IP, routing, switching, cabling and internet protocols such as BGP, MPLS, ISIS, OSPF, LDP, RSVP etc.
  • In depth knowledge of Linux/Unix and ability to perform scripting is a plus.
  • Experience with Software Defined Networking and Network Function Virtualization
  • Expert knowledge of Cisco, Juniper, Citrix and Brocade hardware and software.
  • Experience in a multi-homed Internet network.
  • Great analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Excellent project management skill set.
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effortlessly, both verbally and written.
  • Superior customer service skills. Customers come first and this is the most important thing to remember.
  • Ability to be agile with fast turnaround times.
  • Ability to operate in a fast-paced changing environment and meet aggressive deadlines.
  • Motivated, passionate, go-getter. Proactivity is key for this role.
  • Must be able to participate in 24/7 on-call duties.
  • Demonstrated relationship management skills, coupled with a high level of professionalism.
  • Working knowledge of MPLS and VPLS an asset.
  • Working knowledge of Network Management systems (HP Open View, Solarwinds, Statseeker).
  • Requires a detailed understanding of the delivery of telecom services such as Transparent LAN (TLAN), Metro LAN (MLAN) and Dedicated Internet Access (DIA) an asset
  • Requires a detailed understanding of bridging/switching and most layer 2 protocols including Spanning Tree, 802.1Q, 802.1P, 8021AD and Transparent VLANs an asset
  • Working knowledge and experience with layer 2 bridging/switching, TCP/IP inter-networking and routing with OSPF and BGP as well as an understanding of CIDR address allocation an asset

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