Network Engineer

Vaco - Richmond, VA

Full-time - Mid Level

Richmond, VA

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Network Engineer will be responsible for engineering and operational activities for campus and datacenter networks. This role involves collaboration with other engineers and the Infrastructure Architect for project and operational designs, requiring a self-starter who can prioritize and manage their workload effectively. The position demands the ability to analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex network issues.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert level experience in routing & switching, Wi-Fi, and network packet brokers to design, implement, and support datacenter and campus networks.
• Offer day-to-day operational support for Arista LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure.
• Review network designs for EVPN, VxLAN, leaf-spine architecture and make recommendations for deployment, upgrades, enhancements, or improvements.
• Deploy and maintain Arista's NDR and AGNI Security solutions.
• Develop and maintain a network infrastructure monitoring and alerting strategy.
• Support interoperability between Arista and other networking solutions including Cisco and Palo Alto.
• Assist with configuration buildouts, including creating network provisioning automation using Python and tools such as Chef or Ansible.
• Continuously improve processes and documentation for network assets.
• Participate in troubleshooting incidents and coordinate with vendor support as required.
• Build and maintain partnerships with external vendors, including Arista TAC.
• Translate complex business requirements and objectives into leaf-spine network solutions.
• Engage in continuous technology, security, and networking training to maintain expertise.
• Support business services by completing requests and resolving incidents within documented SLA timings, following all change management processes.
• Ensure security solutions, policies, and procedures are sufficient to meet and respond to threats to the network infrastructure.

Requirements

• Network Industry Certification preferred Arista ACE 3 or above.
• Expert working knowledge of CloudVision.
• 10+ years' working experience with network technologies including network design and deployments of Campus and Data Center networks.
• Expert knowledge of leaf-spine architectures.
• Expert knowledge in Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, Multicast, QoS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and 802.1X.
• Expertise in at least one area of Data Center related technologies - Openstack, SDN, NFV, Load Balancers, Virtualization, Linux tools.
• Background in Perl, Python, Scripting for creating network automation is highly desired.
• Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent written skills and desire to document network infrastructures.
• Experience with working in an ITIL or similar service operational environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Palo Alto firewall experience.
• Citrix NetScaler or load balancing experience.
• Zscaler Secure Private Access experience.
• Nutanix Flow or virtual machine micro-segmentation experience preferred.
• Microsoft Azure networking knowledge a plus.
• Experience working with a Network Access Control solution.