*PLEASE NOTE that If you DO NOT live in the Philadelphia, PA Metro, PLEASE DO NOT apply for this position; thank you...*
**Due to exposure to sensitive/privileged company data, this position requires US Permanent Resident (Green Card), or US Citizen work status**
***This position does allow remote/WFH, 3 days a week. However, this position is located in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Metro area, with a preference location near downtown Philadelphia. Therefore, this person must live in the Philadelphia, PA, Metro area***
IS&T is helping the Manager of Global Networks for a global Maritime Energy firm find a skilled Network Engineer, in Philadelphia, PA Metro area. This is a key hands on technical position, and will work closely with other Network Engineers and Network Architect across the US, Europe, and Asia/Southeast APAC.
Network Skills/understanding in the following:
- Will support over 4,500 customers globally
- More than 5,000 fulltime employees
- Firewalls and Routers – Cisco (ASR, ISR), Palo Alto (VPN, ACLs, ACI (next gen), BGP, OSPF
- Switching – Cisco Catalyst, port config, STP, LACP LAGP
- Cloud Networking, required:
- AWS primary, Azure is secondary; however, intermediate skills would be fine
- Palo Alto preferred
- ACI (understanding, preferred, but not required)
- NAC - ISE, Clearpass, preferred
- Wireless: Aerohive, Extreme Networks, Aruba
- Network Monitoring: Solarwinds or similar
- Load Balancer - NetScaler, ADCC, VPX, F5, A10
- Open DNS, SD-WAN, Hybrid Environment
- Automation (Ansible), others - nice to have
- Knowledge and understanding of the following is highly preferred:
- Microsoft Azure AD, DNS, DHCP, Office 365 Suite & Virtualization: VMware, vSphere, VDI
Preferred but not required:
Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI); next gen software-defined networking (SDN) designed for data centers.
Notes from a detailed Teams meeting with the hiring authority, Global Network Manager:
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“I lead a global team of 6 Network Engineers, of varying levels of experience. I am in need of a reliable Network Engineer to join our team. The ideal candidate has configuration, deployment, and support of cloud Networking - Azure and/or AWS.”
“This is Operations, Data Center and Project - Based Network Engineer opportunity.
Projects will be enterprise in scope, supporting a global network of ~140 global locations, and growing….”
“Projects relating to cloud networking would ideally be given to this network engineer; so an opportunity to own/grow these emerging skills."
"Other activities may include M&A migrations of a newly acquired companies….”
“Another example would be to assess our BGP and OSPF currently in place, decide what is working, what is not; and bring improvements, and standardization to BGP and OSPF routing config…
“Another Example: Our data centers are not up to current generally accepted standards. Do health check/analysis and design upgrade of DC’s. One is located on east coast, another in Asia.”
"Another project example: design and engineer and deploy NAC"
"Last, but important: we are in the final stages of selection of SD-WAN solution for our global network. Likely the product with be Palo Alto. This Senior will lead the hands on design and engineering, with my input and support, of course, but I'd like this kind of project to excite this Network Engineer. I foresee this as being a 2 -3 year project; will be a planned global deployment."
“I need someone who is engaged, driven, and has natural ability & inclination to be a team lead. The reason for the opening is a recent Sr Engineer who departed the company, who on paper looking like a rock star – holding a CCIE certification, but did not have the real world experience or critical thinking skills to design and implement network solutions, configurations, directing installations; and defining, documenting and enforcing network infrastructure standards. Added to this, he was not showing up for meetings, calls, etc.”
"I want someone who is reliable, and cares about their work product. The is the hole I am seeking to fill on the team."
"Ideally, I’d like this person to be someone who wants to continuously update job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintains a personal network/lab; and/or participants in professional organizations. Their head’s in the game, so to speak…"
This Network Eng will participate in an on-call rotation. On call consists of 1 week, every other month (every 8 weeks). May also receive a call from Junior staff when not on-call for escalation purposes. As a global company, the coverage required by Houston staff is minimal. Realistically, this will be a couple hours in the evening (CST) until APAC takes over, during the week. Then Friday after 5 PM, through Sunday evening until APAC takes over. Singapore is 12 – 13 hours ahead of us, depending on daylight savings time.
Lastly – this Network Eng will provide mentorship to junior members of the team.
Job Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree plus 5 years of experience; or 7 or more years of experience that is directly related to the job responsibilities, (professional expereince)
- Certifications are a plus, but NOT required (CCNA, Network+, etc.).
- Ability to demonstrate troubleshooting skills, think analytically while working in a fast-paced environment and the flexibility to work with a wide range of technologies.
- Must multi-task and juggle multiple priorities while ensuring successful completion of all deliverables.
- Forward thinker who designs for current business needs as well as plans for scalability and longer-term solutions.
- Excellent written skills and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to travel globally, including Singapore/SE Asia, China, Eastern Europe, West Europe, etc. This would be infrequent; but is possible.
Interview process:
Initial Teams call with me, then a team call/interview with the team members; then a final interview with VP of Infrastructure. If this person makes it to final interview; they will likely get the offer.
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