Enterprise Core Data Network Engineer (Implementation)

Hitec - Jersey City, NJ

Full-time - Senior

Jersey City, NJ

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

At Bank of America, we are guided by a common purpose to help make financial lives better through the power of every connection. Responsible Growth is how we run our company and how we deliver for our clients, teammates, communities, and shareholders every day. One of the keys to driving Responsible Growth is being a great place to work for our teammates around the world. We are devoted to being a diverse and inclusive workplace for everyone. We hire individuals with a broad range of backgrounds and experiences and invest heavily in our teammates and their families by offering competitive benefits to support their physical, emotional, and financial well-being. This job is responsible for leading the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. Key responsibilities include facilitating deployment of the most complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks, and automation used during implementation. Job expectations include consistently looking for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing the services, and influencing a culture of innovation and continuous improvement. The Data Network Engineer supports initiatives as they transition between design, implementation, and operations. They are active in all phases as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) to support, solve program issues, and facilitate decision-making. The goal is to help the orderly and timely execution of projects and initiatives in an optimal, strategic, and low-risk way. The role performs a Quality Assurance (Q/A) function prior to every implementation project, reviews designs, and ensures compliance with standards. The engineer conducts technology assessments, focuses on managing the design and implementation of new technology solutions, and provides design and detailed consulting as a network subject matter expert. They deliver design proposals, budgets, and scopes for all requests, working closely with the Architecture and Product Engineering teams to develop, review, communicate, and revise network standards. The position involves large-scale network planning and project management via technical processes, standards, and governance as they relate to network engineering activities. Technical areas of focus include WAN/MAN, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, Load Balancers, LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, Latency, NAC, QoS, CAC, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, Multicast, NHRP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, ACL, VPN, and Building Wireless/Wi-Fi solutions with Aruba and carrier in-building wireless services (DAS).

Responsibilities

• Lead the most complex technical designs that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies.
• Facilitate deployment of complex technical solutions by developing templates, playbooks, and automation used during implementation.
• Look for opportunities to improve the reliability and efficiency of implementing services.
• Support initiatives as they transition between design, implementation, and operations as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).
• Perform Quality Assurance (Q/A) function prior to every implementation project.
• Conduct technology assessments and manage the design and implementation of new technology solutions.
• Provide design and detailed consulting as a network subject matter expert.
• Deliver design proposals, budgets, and scopes for all requests.
• Work with Architecture and Product Engineering teams to develop, review, communicate, and revise network standards.
• Perform large scale network planning and manage network projects via technical processes, standards, and governance.

Requirements

• Minimum of 14 to 16 years experience in Networking-related disciplines in design, operation, and implementation services.
• Knowledge in network sizing, QOS, NAC, CAC, and COS traffic classifications.
• Ability to provide bandwidth requirement calculations.
• Experience in Design, Implementation, Support Data Center SDN; ACI/NSX, Arista CloudVision.
• Experience in Design, Implementation, Support SDWAN, preferably on Cloudgenix.
• Strong skills in Scripting required; Python, Ansible, PowerShell.
• Strong Automation Skills Expect, Rancid, REST/SOAP.
• Strong CISCO NSO experience.
• Experience in process re-engineering and work styles such as ITIL, Six Sigma, MOF/MSF.
• Extensive knowledge and experience using advanced tooling such as Sniffer/wire Shark, Prognosis, Scripting, SolarWinds, HP NA/OpsWare/OpenView.
• Ability to assemble professional documents based on existing templates and provide accurate work descriptions.

Nice-to-haves

• Leadership: Self-starter, self-directed and shows initiative.
• Crisis Management experience.
• Focused on execution, delivery, and commitment to dates.
• Ability to align strategy and actions to business impact and results.
• Demonstrates ownership and accountability.
• Organized and detail-oriented.
• Strong technical acumen.
• Ability to partner with others for the good of the initiative.
• Experience in financial services (Insurance, Banking, Investment banking).
• Knowledge and experience in Software and Systems Application and design (Linux, UNIX, etc.).
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, related field, and/or technical training.

Benefits

• Competitive benefits to support physical, emotional, and financial well-being.