Senior Network Engineer WAN optimization

Job Description

**Must have strong, demonstrable experience with Wide Area Networking, routing and routed protocols, and network services such as WAN optimization, load balancing, and network security**

**Minimum of 3 years' experience with converged data center technologies (e.g., VCE Vblock, Cisco FlexPod/UCS)**

**New York Weekend resource for Thursday through Monday weekend work**

**Position Summary**

Act as subject matter expert with a strong Riverbed background to focus mainly on WAN compression and acceleration, Application Delivery and Performance Management. The duties would also include responsibilities for Lifecycle management to make sure the environments are operating at optimal efficiency. The candidate will work closely with our Application and Database teams to make sure the systems will meet our RPO/RTO objectives. They must possess strong troubleshooting skills and have prior disaster recovery experience.

**Principal Responsibilities:**

* Define/refine common standards for the companies Riverbed implementations.
* Converged experience on Cisco UCS, Storage, VCE vblock, Flexprod and Vmware experience

* Lead/execute project delivery for implementation of new architectural / design standards; manage self and (as required) others' delivery of work against budget and timeline requirements.

* Create as-built documentation.

* Conduct and facilitate transition to operations, providing subject matter expertise in an educational manner.

* Collaborate with peers to improve the overall team delivery of network engineering services.

* Follow the processes and methodologies for delivering projects.

* Work closely with all projects stakeholder groups to coordinate the project milestones.

* Understand and translate cross-team dependencies into actionable plans.

* Proactively identify and manage risks.

* Plan for an effective risk mitigation.

* Track projects against approved budgets and report on forecasts and variances.

* Resolve issues in a timely manner. Demonstrate an appropriate sense of urgency

**Experience: Hands-on experience with Riverbed products**

* Must have strong, demonstrable experience with Wide Area Networking, routing and routed protocols, and network WAN optimization background..

* At least five years experience in a technical support position, preferably with a networking technology company.

* In depth knowledge and hands on experience with SAN, NAS, NFS, SCSI, RAID, device drivers, Linux and Windows file systems

* Experience reading and understanding packet captures using Sniffer and/or Ethereal/Wireshark and/or Cascade Pilot and/or AppTransaction or similar

* Excellent communications skills, both oral and written

* Excellent troubleshooting skills

* Minimum of 5 years experience with Cisco routing and switching technologies.

**Knowledge and Skills Required:**

* Strong consultative approach to working with business stakeholders.

* Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.

* Strong written and oral communication skills.

* Strong interpersonal (relationship building and maintenance) skills

* Ability to build strong business partnerships

* Ability to plan technical work throughout service lifecycle (from requirement analysis through transition to operations)

* Extensive, demonstrable knowledge of and skills with data center and campus Local Area Networking core technologies.

* Must possess an understanding of enterprise technology infrastructure, application development \& maintenance, software testing, and IT architecture as they relate to converged data center technologies.

* Demonstrable knowledge of and skills with one or more data center network enablement technologies, i.e., WAN acceleration and optimization; load balancing and traffic management; network encryption; web proxy; firewalls; IDS/IPS; NAC; deep packet analysis; etc.

* Must possess an understanding of enterprise technology infrastructure, application development \& maintenance, software testing, and IT architecture as they relate to a cohesive, enterprise IP strategy.

**Education, Training \&/or Certification:**

* Certifications such as CCIE, CCNP, CCDE, CCDP, etc. are given a preference

* Four-year degree in a business-oriented or technical discipline preferred