Network Engineer

Esperanza Health Center•Philadelphia, PA

34d

About The Position

The IP Network Engineer will be responsible for deploying, maintaining and documenting the advanced IP and Transport network. The ideal candidate will be a subject matter expert for all routers, switches, optical transport, and associated equipment. The IP Network Engineer will serve as the point of technical escalation for all lower tier engineering and technical support staff professionals within the organization to ensure prompt resolution. The candidate will demonstrate a high level of understanding for network principles, including routing protocols and Quality of Service. The role will also interface with the other divisions of the organization, and bring technical oversight and guidance in design and support conversations.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering or Information Technologyfrom a four-year college or university; or equivalent training,educationand experience –required
Five (5) years related Network Engineering technical experience in a carrier or enterprise environment –required
Experience with Microsoft servers,desktopsand laptops
Experience withHyperVand VMWare
Strong hands-on experience with Dell/Sonicwallswitches, firewalls, and VRTX virtual server environments
Strong working knowledge and experience with Access Control Lists (ACL), Firewalls, NAT, DNS, route-maps, BGP communities and VPN technologies –required
Working knowledge of industry routing and switching protocols (BGP, OSPF, STP, etc.) –required
Working knowledge of IPv4 and IPv6 addressing and implementation –required
Working knowledge of Ethernet and LAN | WAN technologies, 802.1x –required
Working knowledge of VoIP protocols including SIP, RTP, RTCP and MGCP – preferred

Nice To Haves

Desired certifications – CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, JNCP or CCVP.

Responsibilities

Assistingwith thedesigningand delivery of the company’s routed and switched network architectures.
Ensuring that all network related problems are responded to and resolvedin accordance withinternal "service level agreements”.
Ensuring that problems and outages are responded to and resolvedin accordance withinternal "service level agreements
Acquiringandmaintainingan up-to-date knowledge of all equipment and software employed to deliver IP services including but not limited to firewalls, switches, wireless,accesscontrol (IPBased), VOIP Phones and paging, and all otherIPbasedequipment.
Assistingwith thedevelopingandmaintainingofappropriateand current documentation as to the topology and specifications of the network, and all necessary support and maintenance tasks.
Assistingwith the maintenance of all power related work in colocation facilities performed by contractors.
Applying in-depth knowledge of network monitoring and other network administration tools toidentifyand isolate equipment related faults.
Performing regular network upgrades (off-hours) to increase network capacity and improve performance.
Ensuring the security of the company’s facilities against any and all unsolicited and unauthorized access, including DDoS based attacks.
Maintaining VPNS between sites and vendors
Participating in cross-training toward the goal of providing redundancy of all skill sets within the IT department.
Performing routine maintenance and administrative functions on all company-ownedIP-networkequipment and transport facilities.
Domain management of users and computers and Active Directory
Update OS and firmware of servers and computers
Maintain Wyse clients and remote platforms including Parallels and/or Horizon
Leverage AWS for backup target and DRS strategy
Edit andmaintaindisaster recovery strategy