Network Engineer III; F5

The Network Engineer-III is responsible for the planning, design, configuration, integration & installation of our growing local area network (LAN) and/or global wide area network (WAN). The Network Engineer-III will provide leadership in technical support and documentation to various departments and users with regard to the global infrastructure. The Network Engineer-III serves as a liaison to gather network requirements from internal customers, vendors, and other third-party providers.

• Onsite in Seattle, WA
• Additional travel to satellite locations in Tacoma, WA, and Olympia, WA

• This role will have a strong focus on F5 technologies, including BIG-IP LTM, traffic management, and application delivery optimization across the enterprise network
• Design:
  Perform design requirements feasibility studies
• Design:
  Perform vendor recommendation/selection and coordination for hardware testing and installations
• Design:
  Examine theoretical and implemented designs for deficiencies and facilitate corrections
• Build:
  Prepare maintenance plan documentation & change management
• Build:
  Examine maintenance plans for accuracy
• Build:
  Script maintenance implementations
• Build:
  Work in either a lead role or an assisting role during maintenance implementations
• Improvements:
  Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) & Method of Procedures (MOP’s)
• Improvements:
  Develop network standardization practices
• Improvements:
  Document informational content for specialized network designs to be used for training needs
• Improvements:
  Present and/or Train on new network typologies, hardware, and technologies to internal teams
• Improvements:
  Lead Root Cause Analysis sessions to achieve better networking practices
• Improvements:
  Determine baseline requirements for our network needs
• Improvements:
  Provide code analysis on existing software, IOS testing, and software recommendations
• Improvements:
  Create network lab mockups for error testing
• Improvements:
  Automate repetitive Engineering tasks
• Additional:
  Responsible for Forescout management and maintenance (as secondary).
• Additional:
  Manages the team’s ticket queue and responds on-site to issues
• Additional:
  Act as 3rd level escalations POC for design or other related problems
• Additional:
  Initial deployment of new products and services
• Additional:
  Monitor capacity and plan for bandwidth additions
• Additional:
  Establish project priority based on business needs

• High School Diploma or regional equivalent required
• Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or Network Engineering. At the manager’s discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement
• Minimum 5-7 years of recent experience with network design and build-out of LAN/WANs and/or large-scale network retrofits and remediations
• Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP solutions, including load balancing and application delivery
• Must have certifications: CCNA and F5 101
• Preferred certifications: F5 201, F5 301, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP preferred, CCIE (R&S, SP, or DC) highly preferred (or equivalent experience), Python PCEP
• Advanced level experience working with most of the following technologies/applications: MPLS, BGP, LDP, QoS, IPv6, OSPF, vPC, STP, DWDM, EVPN, L2
  
  VPN, MPLS VPN, L3
  
  VPN, FHRP, VLAN, CDP, port-channels, IS-IS, MPLS Inter-AS, VXLAN, DNS, ACL, RADb, Flowspec, RTBH, Git Hub, API’s, NFV, Hypervisors, virtual switching
• Multi-vendor experience working with the following platforms:
  Cisco IOS, ASR 1k (IOS-XE), ASR NCS (IOS-XR), Nexus (NX-OS), Arista (EOS), Junos
• Experience working in a service provider, datacenter/hosting environment, or large-scale enterprise networks.
• Experience researching, evaluating, and recommending hardware and/or software solutions supporting large-scale deployments and/or remediations against the LAN/WAN
• Experience working with 3rd party networking vendors, with an understanding of the service/hardware/software portfolios they provide
• Able to identify areas of process improvement and provide input and solution options to streamline work
• Excellent writing, documentation, and communication skills, possessing the ability to communicate well with technical and…