Senior Network Engineer

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Thorlabs
Newton, NJ, United States

Phone: 19739405189
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Title:

Senior Network Engineer

Location:

Newton, NJ 

Job ID:

74675
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Job Description:

The Senior Network Engineer role utilizes extensive hands-on experience in designing, building, and supporting resilient cutting-edge technology in our site-based and cloud-based network infrastructure. You will lead the network operations and work closely with and provide support to Global IT members and their clients. Responsible for building and maintaining strong relationships with vendors and others throughout the organization and able to thrive in the ever-changing work environment.

 

Essential Job Functions include, but are not limited to:

  • Participate in the design and development process from definition to deployment.
  • Plan, Architect, Deploy and Manage our site-based network architecture and cloud services
  • System troubleshooting and problem-solving across platform and application domains - will be expected to participate in on-call escalations to troubleshoot customer facing issues.
  • Work with local/remote teams to support the delivery, deployment, and operation of network services.
  • Proactive development of monitoring solutions for cloud-based network environment
  • Proactive identification and reactive troubleshooting of issues that arise with the network and escalate to manage service providers or other 3rd party vendor support when necessary.
  • Ensures that security standards, practices, and policies are incorporated into all network architecture.
  • Needs to be highly available and on-call for production outages.
  • Perform active monitoring of relevant services
  • Drive automation to reduce failures, manual tasks and therefore improving overall service performance, stability, and availability.

 

Key skills:

  • Extensive technical experience configuring and applying best practice to LANs, including configuration of Cisco routers and switches (Catalyst and Nexus), Arista switches, and NetScalers
  • Extensive knowledge of WAN/SD-WAN Technologies - Carrier circuits, MetroE, routing protocols (BGP)
  • LAN and Cloud-based security solutions - Cisco and/or Fortigate firewalls, Cisco ISE, VPNs
  • A specialist in on-premise and/or Cloud-based Enterprise Wireless (Cisco or Arista preferable)
  • Azure-specific networking skills: VNet, VPN, ExpressRoute, WVD Direct Route
  • Azure security concepts: Azure Firewalls, NSG, WAF
  • Consultative skills, including the ability to understand business requirements, identify risks and make recommendations for best practice design
  • The ability to document and conduct knowledge transfer to internal staff
  • Solid project management skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Good communication skills both verbal and written
  • Self-starter requiring minimal supervision
  • Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities and requirements
  • Experience with standard change management and configuration policies

 

Specific experience:

  • 5+ years’ experience of strong Enterprise-level networking with routing/switching configuration/diagnostic in Global Network infrastructure design delivery of WAN, LAN, and Firewall
  • 3+ years of proven work experience designing, deploying and managing Enterprise-class public cloud connectivity solutions leveraging Azure cloud network services

 

Education:

  • Bachelor of Science in Computer Science or equivalent fields in IT or equivalent experience

 

Other:

  • Occasional global travel required supporting corporate offices.
  • Occasional weekend maintenance

 

 

Thorlabs values its diverse environment and is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified individuals will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age or veteran status. Job descriptions are not intended as and do not create employment contracts. The organization maintains its status as an at-will employer. Employees can be terminated for any reason not prohibited by law.