Senior Network Engineer

Title: Network Engineer L3

Location: Remote from Poland

Duration: One-year B2B contract (extensions possible)

Pay rate: €30-40 per hour (depending on experience level

Hours: Must be open to working 13:00-21:00 Central European time shift to help cover United States customers

Role Summary

A high performing individual contributor who acts as a mentor to more junior engineers, applies new engineering principles to improve existing systems, and is responsible for leading complex, well-defined projects.

Experience

• 5+ years for Bachelor's 3+ years for Master's Education
• Maintained and enhanced network project/product in production environments in public/hybrid cloud infrastructure.
• Implemented software solutions to configure infrastructure with code.
• Bachelor's or Master's or equivalent experience. Technical degree preferred.
• Relevant certification (e.g., Cisco CCNA,CCNP, AWS Associate, AWS Network Specialty).

Functional/ Technical Skills

• Proficient in configuring enterprise or service provider grade network hardware.
• Proficient in configuring, operating, and automating cloud IaaS networks (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Basic to intermediate skills in routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, MPBGP, ISIS, MPLS).
• Understands physical and virtual network technologies and how they interoperate.
• Intermediate knowledge of models used to show network state and for configuration (e.g., SNMP, NetFlow, IPFIX, Netconf, Restconf, gRPC).
• Is familiar with using the best model for given technologies to observe network behavior and performance.
• Has strength in a couple languages and/or one language with multiple technology implementations.
• Identifies strengths and weaknesses among languages for particular use cases.
• Creates APIs to be consumed across the business unit.
• Selects among technology available to implement and solve for need.
• Performs routine network management responsibilities for the LAN, WAN and telecommunications systems, supporting other associates as needed.
• Uncovers and communicates potential business impacts of routine activity.
• Gathers pertinent information about a problem by analyzing data and patterns and identifying underlying issues.
• Can gain understanding of business impacts created by problems with the technology.
• Researches and recommends more detailed solutions to resolve problems.
• Implements solutions based on advanced knowledge of standard practices and previous experiences: escalates complex or unprecedented issues and needed.
• Brings together different stakeholders with varied perspectives to develop solutions to issues and contributes own suggestions.
• Thinks holistically to identify opportunities around policies/ processes to increase efficiency across organizational boundaries.
• Assists with a whole systems approach to analyzing issues by ensuring all components (structure, people, process, and technology) are identified and accounted for.
• Investigates standard or routine issues or incidents and drafts concise, balanced, evidence-based reports on findings.
• Conducts rigorous tests and inspections of products, services, solutions, or processes to evaluate quality or performance.
• Demonstrates knowledge of advanced and relevant technology; exhibits
• comfort working with several forms of technology; understands the relationship between applications, databases, and technology platforms.
• Analyzes requirements and assists with the design of architecture.
• Has a working knowledge of how the solutions using the technology impact the capacity requirements for same.
• Researches information, data, trends, and best practices in emerging technology and shares beneficial information with relevant stakeholders.