Senior Network Administrator & Architect

$114,224 - $148,500/Yr

Murata Electronics North America - San Diego, CA

- Senior

San Diego, CA

Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods

About the position

This Senior Systems Administrator develops and maintains systems, tools and networks in support of pSemi's enterprise environment. As an individual contributor, you will be expected to manage the network infrastructure including switches, routers and firewalls, maintain the latest firmware revisions and security patches in support of the pSemi enterprise network which spans the globe.

Responsibilities

• The design, implementation, and maintenance of a geographically distributed network, including LAN, WAN, Wi-Fi and SDWAN.
• In-depth understanding and practical knowledge of networking (switching, routing, perimeter security, DNS, and DHCP).
• Ability to analyze and evaluate networks, identify issues and provide solutions to ensure networks are performing optimally.
• Ability to manage, monitor and troubleshoot a complex network environment.
• Ability to design, implement and troubleshoot network performance issues and the security infrastructure.
• Ability to communicate technical information to other technical team members and to those who may not have knowledge of network terminology.
• Ability to manage several projects simultaneously from design to implementation.
• Work closely with the software vendors to resolve issues and drive new features and infrastructures.

Requirements

• Typically requires 6 to 8 years of experience in network technology infrastructure, including support, design, implementation, and operations, depending on education level and experience.
• Experience configuring, maintaining, deploying and supporting networking hardware such as routers, switches, firewalls, Wi-Fi APs.
• Comprehensive understanding of networking including L2/L3 protocols such as VLANs, STP/RSTP, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP and EIGRP.
• Extensive knowledge of communication and routing protocols used within an enterprise environment.
• Extensive experience with a variety of network analysis, monitoring and alerting tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve network performance issues, relating to routing and switching.
• Working knowledge of 802.1x radius authentication and ClearPass.
• Understanding of certificate or PKI infrastructure.
• Designing, writing and updating both system documentation and network diagrams.
• Configure network connections, in support of a large virtualization and storage infrastructure.
• Experience managing cloud environments such as AWS and Oracle Cloud a plus.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills and English proficiency.
• Strong leadership and team mentoring skills.
• Self-motivated and team oriented.
• U.S. Person status required.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience managing Cisco / Aruba / Palo Alto Enterprise Networks with strong network operating systems experience (such as Cisco IOS, NX-OS, ARUBAOS, PANOS).
• At least one certification in Cisco, Palo-Alto, CompTIA Network+ or other networking technologies desired.
• Support of LAN, WAN, SDWAN, and VPN networks, in a VMWare, NetApp environment running Microsoft Windows Server, Microsoft SQL Server, and Linux (CentOS, RHEL) business systems.
• Demonstrate mastery of TCP/IP switching and routing.
• Extensive knowledge of Ethernet cabling, multimode fiber optics, experience in a high-density, high bandwidth environment (10GB, 25GB, and greater), fiber channel a plus.
• Proficient in the configuring and standing up Cisco Switches, Palo Alto Firewalls, and Aruba APs.
• Proficient with VPN technologies (Global Protect).
• Strong knowledge of virtual and physical server architecture and networking.
• Proficient knowledge of Authentication and Access Control technologies.