Sr. Network Design Engineer
On-siteAlice Springs, Northern Territory, Australia
Job Summary
Interpret customer requirements and apply standard design approaches for service delivery, fully documenting designs with diagrams, bills of materials, and configurations. Use a private test lab to evaluate new technologies, test proposed changes, and recreate troubleshooting scenarios. Schedule maintenance windows for migrating user connections from legacy to modern infrastructure with minimal impact on critical data flows. Provide technical expertise to operations engineers for fault isolation, solve tough problems with scalable solutions, and develop secure designs compliant with DISA STIGs. Supervise network support specialists to plan and implement services while obtaining Authority to Operate for new capabilities.
Required Qualifications
- Active TS/SCI with Poly
- Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2
- 16 years of experience
- Experience specific to network engineering to include Tier III or higher network operations and/or network design and implementation
- Prior responsibility for production network hardware configurations for Cisco, Brocade, and/or Juniper
- Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard routing protocols in a production network, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
- Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard switching and trunking protocols in a production network, such as Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), 802.1q, and port-channels
Desired Qualifications
- Network engineering and design experience specific to CAN/LAN
- Experience should include application of industry standards, developing configurations, and integration of solutions into production environments
- Network engineering and design experience with MPLS WANs, network management tools, and firewalls
- Expert knowledge of routing and switching protocols and the ability to demonstrate knowledge through briefings and documentation
- Extensive BGP experience a plus
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent knowledge
- Initiative and disciplined to work unsupervised as part of a network engineering team
- Experience establishing process, developing documents, and organizing repositories is a plus
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