Network Engineer III - Quarterhill

The Network Engineer III is responsible for the design, plan, and implementation, operation, and maintenance of all networks on cloud and premise. Individual will be participating in multi-functional projects and working in a collaborative environment with other passionate, highly skilled across other team members to create a positive impact on our business. Coordinating installation, testing, and troubleshooting in all network environments. Individual will serve as a subject matter expert and a project resource on network projects. Individual will also be responsible for ongoing support of the enterprise network operation.

Conceptualize, design, and document the network solution, that meets or exceeds the requirements of the business, utilizing a reference architecture and established best practices.

• Technical subject matter expert for changes and implementations, ensuring the implementation adheres to the proposed design and follows change control procedures.
• Engage in project communications using a consultative approach, anticipate obstacles, analyze risk, and recommend steps to mitigate.
• Develop a sound understanding of organization’s functional and business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables.
• Ensure designs and infrastructure solutions fulfill functional and technical requirements, adhere to processes and standards, favor simplicity over complexity, and promote supportability.
• Provide advanced technical expertise and oversight for the resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams.
• Employ a servant leader approach to assisting and mentoring associates with a team first mentality that promotes continuity, cross-training, technical competence, and team resiliency.
• Support network device deployment, configuration, management, and lifecycle.
• Design and implement efficiency, consolidation, high availability, resiliency, and best practices across the routing, switching, IaaS, and WAN environments.
• Maintain skill set and stay abreast of emerging technologies and issues
• Coordinate network maintenance/downtime with IT and lines of business
• Provide day to day support of overall network infrastructure.
• Adheres to all organizational policies and procedures.

This list of responsibilities might not cover everything you'll end up doing.  

Qualifications/Requirements:

• Cisco CCNP desired
• Minimum of 4-6 years industry experience.
• High level of proficiency with firewall solutions such as Palo Alto
• Cloud network experience such as GCP and OCI
• Expert level proficiency designing and architecting
• Expert level proficiency with subnetting, DNS, MPLS, STP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IPSEC, TCPIP, DHCP/IP address management, and packet capture and inspection.
• Intermediate proficiency with load balancing, high availability, and disaster recovery HA/DR
• Intermediate proficiency in network security and network hardening.
• Proven track record of planning, coordinating, and executing IT initiatives at scale
• Excellent technical skills as well as strong team orientation and communication
• Proficient using configuration automation including server builds and user provisioning
• Strong verbal and written communication, interpersonal, conflict resolution, and customer service skills. Works effectively as a member of a high-performing team.
• Strong capabilities around configuration management, capacity planning, and analysis,
• Understands systems dependencies and interrelation to the business.
• Ability to analyze complex, cross-functional and cross-platform issues.
• Champion of following established best practices, continuous improvement, prioritizing cyber hygiene, and avoiding and, where possible, reducing technical debt.
• Working knowledge of system monitoring and alerting tools, including SolarWinds, Zenoss, and PRTG
• Able to engage in a professional manner with all levels of management and staff
• Demonstrates initiative, the ability to multi-task, prioritize, and size work efforts

• Some travels required – training, team building, site survey, etc.

Preferred Education and Experience 

• Applicable work experience highly valued
• Familiarity with communication protocols (such as TCP/IP) and routing protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VPN)
• Familiarity with cloud networking (GCP, OCI), Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5 Load Balancers, Meraki wireless, access control models and network security are nice to have

We offera Total Rewards plan designed with you and your family’s health and wellness in mind that includes: 

• Paid days off (i.e.vacation, sick days, bereavement leave) 
• Health and Dental plans 
• Retirement plans 
• Employee and Family Assistance Program (EFAP) 
• Employee referral program 

We welcome applicants from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, or disabilityor any other protected characteristics in accordance with applicable federal, state/provincial, and local laws. We're committed to creating a workplace where everyone feels valued and respected.  

We appreciate all responses and will acknowledge only those being considered for an interview. 

We respectfully request no calls or unsolicited resumes from Agencies.