Junior Network Engineer
About The Position
As our Managed Services practice continues to grow, we’re looking for a Junior Network Engineer who has a strong networking foundation and is ready to continue building their skills across a variety of technologies, vendors, and client environments. This role is designed to provide a development path toward becoming a Senior Network Engineer as your technical skills, ownership, and experience continue to grow. As a Junior Network Engineer, you will help support and maintain network infrastructure across our managed client environments. You’ll troubleshoot network issues, monitor performance, assist with changes and upgrades, and work with senior engineers as you continue developing your networking skills.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience in network engineering, network administration, or a similar networking-focused position.
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals.
- Comfortable troubleshooting real-world network issues.
- Experience or working knowledge in switching and routing fundamentals.
- Experience or working knowledge in VLANs, STP, IPsec, HSRP/VRRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11 wireless, VPNs, DNS, DHCP, and QoS.
- Experience or working knowledge in OSI and TCP/IP models.
- Experience or working knowledge in enterprise switches, routers, wireless infrastructure, and firewalls.
- Experience or working knowledge in network troubleshooting involving connectivity, routing, switching, performance, and infrastructure issues.
- Experience or working knowledge in network monitoring, diagnostic, configuration management, and traffic analysis tools.
- Experience or working knowledge in network firmware and software upgrades.
- Experience or working knowledge in production network changes and maintenance activities.
- Experience or working knowledge in developing and following implementation, testing, validation, and rollback procedures.
- Experience or working knowledge in maintaining configuration backups and recovery procedures.
- Experience or working knowledge in creating and maintaining technical documentation, procedures, and network diagrams.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
- Clear communication skills for documenting work, communicating with clients and other engineers.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities.
- Ability to know when an issue should be escalated.
- Comfortable working in an MSP environment supporting multiple clients, network architectures, vendors, and management platforms.
Nice To Haves
- Cisco CCNA or equivalent practical networking experience is strongly desired.
- CCNP or equivalent advanced networking experience is a plus.
- Cisco Catalyst switching.
- Cisco Meraki.
- Aruba networking technologies.
- SolarWinds.
- Aruba Central.
- Cisco Catalyst Center.
- MSP or multi-client networking environments.
- Enterprise, hospitality, or multi-site networks.
- Large-scale firmware or network infrastructure upgrade projects.
- Formal incident, problem, configuration, and change management processes.
- Humble, hungry, and people smart.
- Comfortable asking questions, learning from more senior engineers, sharing what you learn with others, and progressively taking ownership.
Responsibilities
- Troubleshooting switching, routing, wireless, firewall, VPN, and connectivity issues.
- Monitoring network health, performance, and availability.
- Assisting with network changes, firmware upgrades, and scheduled maintenance.
- Maintaining accurate technical documentation.
- Collaborating with senior engineers, clients, and vendors.
Benefits
- 3 Weeks of Paid Time Off (vacation and sick time accrued, subject to manager approval).
- Healthcare Options with 75% of your premium covered.
- Dental & Vision Services.
- Group Life Insurance.
- 401k with up to 4% matching and immediate vesting.
- Access to industry training and certification reimbursement to support your continued growth.
- Company computer and peripherals will be provided.
- Stipend for reliable internet connection.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
