Escalate problems to vendors and/or senior management for resolution.
Create and manage problem tickets with vendor.
Contribute to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; design cost-effective networks which follow industry best practices.
Develop network design and operational objectives by designing and engineering, evaluating, recommending, formulating, testing, and implementing plans for current and new technology.
Maintain a healthy network with monitoring and evaluating network availability, utilization, throughput, and latency to mitigate and prevent future issues.
Responsible for the creation and maintenance of technical documentation
Qualifications:
Must possess strong working knowledge and experience in design and implementation for data networking, routing, switching, subnetting and segmentation in a large, multi-site (100+) enterprise network with a keen focus on security, availability, resiliency, and performance.
Aruba Wireless Hardware, Software Upgrades and Lifecycle Management is required.
RF Planning (Aruba AirWatch).
Wireless Configurations and Standards.
Wireless documentation and diagraming skills.
Wireless Authentication experience is required.
Aruba ClearPass Configuration and Management.
Client Certificates and 802.X protocols
Single SSID On Ramping experience
Cisco Webex Suite with Webex Calling, Messaging, Meetings, Control Hub
Hands-on knowledge for the following:
Cisco Routers-Switches
Palo Alto networks - physical and virtual (VMware, Azure, AWS)
Panorama advanced configuration (Multi VSYS, Multi-Layer, Device Group, Dynamic Objects / Tagging, IOT Device), IPSEC and Global Protect.
VMware VeloCloud, NSX Network virtualization, AVI Load Balancers
Azure Cloud Networking
Network automation to deploy, configure, and troubleshoot network components (routers, switches, load balancers, VoIP gateways, Session Border Controllers)
Strong communication and organizational skills a must.
Ability to triage technical issues and problems a must.
Bachelor's degree in computer science and/or 10+ years of experience