Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Tempe, AZ (in-office with travel up to 30% of the time)

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be responsible for the technical support and maintenance of all ASRC and subsidiary enterprise network infrastructure and related systems.

Your role:

• Design, deploy and manage all company switching, routing, firewall, VPN, wireless, cable plants, and network management systems across a wide range of complex architectures, platforms and mediums.
• Lead engineer on assigned network upgrade projects.
• Mentor and train junior network engineering staff to ensure they have the tools to be successful.
• Effective communication skills and customer service with the ability to communicate IT issues to Sr IT Leadership.
• Define and follow standards and best practices for network design, testing, and implementation methodology.
• Document the environment as needed.
• Manage cloud networking components, native and vendor appliances, to ensure connectivity between systems.
• Provide day to day support to ASRC IT customers by ensuring IT service tickets assigned are being addressed and resolved within established SLA parameters.
• Installs, configures, manages and troubleshoots various network, infrastructure, hardware and software components.
• Respond to service/work requests that fall into the Network Administration queue in a timely fashion.
• Support various business units across the company.
• Manage critical escalations to 3rd Parties and vendor support when required.
• Works directly with Telco/ISP to troubleshoot existing or onboard new services.
• Balance the ability to provide day-to-day support and quickly respond to new issues, while still ensuring that project efforts are delivered on time with high quality.
• Effectively use monitoring/administrative tools to maintain network uptime and efficiency.
• Configure and deploy routers and switches

What you’ve got:

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related field, with 8–10 years of progressively responsible IT experience. Equivalent education and experience may substitute.
• Strong background with Cisco hardware and IOS configuration/troubleshooting; CCNA/CCNP/CCDP certifications preferred.
• Experience with Cisco Meraki hardware and configuration preferred.
• Expertise with VLAN, VPN, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and QoS.
• Hands‑on experience with Cisco routers, Nexus and Catalyst switches, ASA firewalls, and 802.11 wireless systems.
• Proficiency with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama centralized management.
• Deep knowledge of spanning tree, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, BGP, VTP, Ether Channel, STP, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, and related protocols.
• Preferred experience with Cisco Data Center technologies including Nexus, virtualization, and FCoE.
• Familiarity with standards‑based network monitoring and management tools.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to create documentation and present to groups effectively.
• Data Center routing and switching experience
• Network security experience
• An ability to think critically about systems and to make adjustments consistently as needed.