Motion Recruitment - Dallas, TX
posted 3 months ago
Our client, a high-tech company that works on numerous projects throughout the world, mostly related to homeland security and defense, is looking for a Senior Network Engineer in Fort Worth, TX. The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for designing, maintaining, and managing the organization's IT infrastructure, ensuring system security and integration with current applications. This role will support network and operations departments with new technologies, making it essential for the candidate to be skilled with Next Generation versions of Cisco, F5, Palo Alto/Juniper on-prem equipment, and cloud-based services. In this position, the Senior Network Engineer will be expected to design, architect, and maintain solutions for both on-prem and cloud environments, addressing requirements for scalability, reliability, security, and performance. The role also involves automating installations and implementations for provisioning and operating infrastructure in a reliable and repeatable manner. The engineer will participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and will work closely with a team of architects and engineers, acting as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Network, Datacenter, and related requests. The Senior Network Engineer will create functional design specifications for on-prem and cloud reference architectures and assist with other network and related project deliverables as needed. Regular system maintenance will be part of the daily responsibilities, along with implementing operating system enhancements to improve reliability. The engineer will interact with software, systems, IT engineering, and applications development teams to restore service and ensure that long-term requirements of systems operations and administration are included in the overall information systems planning of the organization. Additionally, the engineer will be responsible for the installation, maintenance, configuration, and integrity of network-related computer software, monitoring the performance of the overall network and collaboration systems, and maintaining a high level of technical skill in the field of expertise.