Network Engineer - Internet Services (E-Mail Subject: "Network Engineer")

Posting Date: Open until filled

Job Description: As a Network Engineer, you will be a key part of the support system ensuring the delivery of Internet connectivity for more than 10 million end-users across the global Research and Education community. You will be responsible for the smooth operation of a complex global production network, ensuring it is always available and performing well. You will be at the event horizon of high-severity network impacts, requiring excellent troubleshooting, communication, and network management skills to expedite problem resolution and act as a key point of contact between internal groups, vendors, and network peers. You will learn quickly and adapt to changes. You will maintain a high sense of urgency while staying cool under pressure. You will make skillful use of a complex and evolving array of both industry standard and internally developed tools/technologies to ensure that the production network continues to deliver high reliability and performance.

Responsibilities:

• Monitor network stability and performance - ensuring 24x7 operations and resolving service impacts as they occur,
• Support Internet connectivity for millions of end-users in universities and regional R&E networks by troubleshooting service impacting issues involving the network,
• Act as an externally facing point of contact to facilitate handling of problem reports and maintain relations with network peers and vendors,
• Act as an internally facing point of contact to escalate technical issues and communicate network status, and
• Oversee and execute planned network maintenance work, minimizing impact to services.

Qualifications:

• BS/BA in a technical discipline (or equivalent work experience),
• 3+ years of experience with ISP network operations center tier 1-2 or enterprise/IT network infrastructure support,
• Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols,
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with major Internet routing protocols; specifically BGP and ISIS and physical infrastructure (optical a plus),
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with major router platforms; specifically with Juniper JunOS and M/T/MX series and Cisco 49xx, 65xx, 76xx, GSR platforms including compatible supervisory and line cards for these platforms,
• Excellent network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills,
• Troubleshooting skills in traffic engineering using BGP and large scale network design and maintenance,
• Candidates should also have had significant past experience with, and expertise in many of the following protocols & technologies: DWDM, T1/DS1, DS3, SONET (OC3, OC48), 802.2/3, 802.1d VLANs/STP, IP, TCP(internals & flow control), BGP, OSPF, PIMv2, IGMP, LDP,TACACS, netflow, DNS, HTTP,
• Experience with mission critical multicast systems is highly desired,
• Experience designing network and datacenter installations utilizing L2 and L3 protocols is highly desired,
• Strong Unix skills and the ability to script in Perl, shell, C or C++ is desirable,
• Willingness to work outside of normal business hours as projects require, and
• Experience working as an on-call escalation point for support a plus; some off-hours pager duty will be required.

This position also requires strong interpersonal skills, strong project management and time management skills, and a successful track record of coordinating and driving issues to resolution. This is an amazing opportunity in terms of responsibility, interesting challenges, and high visibility. We truly are looking for the highest quality candidates, so you should expect a rigorous interview process.

Please send your resumes with salary history or current salary. Resumes can be sent to:

Resumes can also be sent to:

CENIC
16700 Valley View Ave. Suite 400
La Mirada, California 90638
Attn: Network Engineer

or via e-mail to jobs@cenic.org. "Network Engineer" must in the subject of the e-mail. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience.