Network Engineer

$100,000 - $100,000/Yr

Motion Recruitment - Dallas, TX

Full-time - Mid Level

Dallas, TX

101-250 employees

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Network Engineer position is a full-time role focused on managing and optimizing network infrastructure for a leading energy and recycling company. The role involves working with Cisco technologies, including Catalyst, Nexus, and Meraki, as well as Palo Alto firewalls. The engineer will be responsible for network design, implementation, and troubleshooting, ensuring high availability and performance across geographically dispersed locations.

Responsibilities

• Research new technology advancements and conduct evaluations focused on optimizing and improving network configuration, performance, capacity, availability, and operational reliability.
• Plan, design, implement and document all network related projects.
• Define and maintain technology standards.
• Establish and maintain backup and version-control of network configurations.
• Troubleshoot network designs and make recommendations for system fixes and enhancements.
• Make recommendations for leveraging network installations and reducing operational costs.
• Partner with cross-functional peers from both infrastructure and application teams.
• Manage hardware/software vendors, service providers and 3rd party partners.
• Conduct network related work for Mergers and Acquisitions.
• Provide first/second tier of support for all networking issues including routing, switching, WIFI, and firewall.
• All other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology or related discipline or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of experience in a Network Engineering role in an enterprise environment with geographically dispersed locations.
• Specific experience with Cisco Meraki switch/WIFI, Palo Alto NGFW, Infoblox DDI, Cisco ASA, ISR, ASR, Catalyst/Nexus switches and SDWAN.
• Intermediate understanding of EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPN, Ethernet, DSL, DMVPN, QoS, COS, SNMP, VoIP, VLANS, Subnetting, Supernetting, Trunking, Virtual Networking, IPS, WLAN, WAN acceleration, URL filtering, NetFlow, network monitoring systems, cloud service providers such as MS Azure and OCI.
• Experience with supporting and troubleshooting global networks which includes multi-site, high-availability, load-balanced infrastructure solutions (active/active).
• Cisco CCNA or related industry certification required.

Benefits

• Competitive salary range of $85-100K plus a 10% bonus.
• Catered lunch during in-office days.