Your role
Here at Digital Realty’s IT department, we pride ourselves in our ability to focus on improving the value that Digital Realty gets from its investments in technology. We work fast, hard, and are passionate about what we do. Digital Realty is currently looking for a Senior Network Engineer to join our IT Infrastructure team to work closely with our Corporate Services, Operations, and other groups to implement and maintain quality and customer focused solutions.
Based on the nature of our industry, our solutions utilize and rely on a wide variety of technologies. As such, we are looking for a highly skilled and motivated person who can administer enterprise solutions as well as be flexible enough to explore revolutionary or “outside the box” ideas to get the job done. We need people who take pride in being a subject matter expert in their domain yet understand and explore the many other talents of IT; someone with expert knowledge of Cisco IOS and networking in general.
What you’ll do
- Work with stakeholders to gather requirements
- Design and implementation of network solutions (as a part of the Network Engineering team)
- Maintain and update detailed network documentation
- Provide escalation point for resolving complex problems requiring advanced skills and research capability
- Maintain vendor relationships and ensure compliance with licensing and support agreements
- Manage projects utilizing remote hands vendors and internal staff
- Provide support knowledge sharing, authoring, and maintenance of system run books and documentation
- Independent worker who drives work to completion based on pre-devised project plan
- Communication with customers and team members throughout project assignments; reports back progress through project management system at regular intervals
What you’ll need
· Bachelor’s degree in IT with a minimum five years’ experience as a network engineer responsible for a primarily Cisco based network
· Expert knowledge of Cisco products, their functionality, configuration and best practices
· QoS, IPSLA, DMVPN, WAN, MPLS, SIP, PRI, IPSEC, STP
· Cisco AnyConnect VPN
· Working knowledge of BGP, EIGRP, OSPF
· Working knowledge of Microsoft Windows networking configuration and protocols
· Error investigation, Troubleshooting, and Root Cause Analysis
Preferred candidates meet the following skillsets:
· Experience in data center industry
· Cisco Certification Network Professional certification or higher
· Familiarity with SolarWinds monitoring platform
· Cisco – 5+ years (route (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP), switch, DMVPN, IPSec, SSL VPN)
· Fortinet, Palo Alto – 3+ years (Firewall)
· Meraki Experience
· Experience Cisco DNA/ISE
Nice to Have:
· Zero Trust
· zScaler
Cloud Experience - 1-2 years
