Sr Design Engineer

Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC•Minneapolis, MN

15h•$125,000 - $158,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Provide technical expertise and direction in developing and supporting business and technology systems that run in our IBM Mainframe environment. Support complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring and implementing detailed engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment.

Requirements

Bachelors degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience.
Minimum 7-10 years of network design and engineering experience required.
Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.
Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.

Nice To Haves

Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco ASA
F5 - Big IP, LTM, GTM, ASM
DDI, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, NTP
Infoblox, CloudFlare
DDoS - Akamai, AWS, Azure, CloudFlare
Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure
Automation & scripting
Routing, Switching
Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management
Packet capture and analysis - Gigastor, Wireshark

Responsibilities

Independently perform highly complex assignments.
Network design, architecture, management, and deployment of new and existing routing and switching within campus and data center networks.
Lead proper execution of network changes & updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.
Responsible for network performance and security monitoring in addition to being able to troubleshoot network-related issues in a logical manner.
Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions for proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth.
Where possible, introduce automation for daily routine administrative tasks.
Collaborates with all Information Technology disciplines.
Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information.
Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.
Perform other special project and duties as assigned.
Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades.
Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.
Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.
Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.