Responsibilities
- Leads in the planning, design, testing, implementation and participates in the support of technical solutions for data and voice communications infrastructure in support of Network Services; Provides 24x7 on call technical support as required
- Engages with company-wide business units to provide network design solutions for business requirements, and works to ensure the highest level of associated systems operations, reliability and security
- Provides technical guidance and expertise to team members and associated staff
- Participates in department planning, research and development to ensure that company is using up-to-date technologies to comply with corporate standards, goals and objectives
- Leads vendor management activities to ensure continued reliability, availability, and security of company's telecommunications and data network infrastructure
Requirements
- A Bachelor's degree (BA, BS) or equivalent education, training or experience in Engineering, Computer Engineering or closely related field
- Equivalent years of education and training, plus five (5) or more years related experience
- Information technology, network and security administration
- Experience with IT network and security engineering
- Must have significant experience designing and supporting local area and wide area networks, advanced understanding and experience with routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP), site-to-site VPNs, ACLs, Layer 2 technologies, diagramming, documenting, and project planning
- Experience with content delivery technologies (F5)
- Experience debugging complex system issues in production environments, determining root causes, and implementing solutions to recover functionality of systems in a timely manner
- Must be able to work effectively in a team environment as facilitator and team member
- Excellent analytical, verbal and written communication and documentation skills required, with a demonstrated attention to detail
- Ability to use deductive reasoning and analytical thinking with sound judgment and decision-making skills
- Excellent interpersonal and conflict resolution skills are also essential
- Must be self-starting and willing and able to work independently in a dynamic corporate organization under pressure of tight deadlines and aggressive expectations
- Self-motivated, problem solving skills and the ability to influence others without direct authority
- Good attitude, communication and interpersonal skills
- Working knowledge of ISO Markets required
- Thorough knowledge of IT systems development and data networking systems
Nice to Have
- Master Degree preferred
- Industry certifications (Cisco Certified Network Professional, Cisco Certified Internetworking Expert, Certified Information Systems Security Professional etc.) preferred
