at Echo Global Logistics in Chicago, Illinois, United States
Job Description
At Echo, we foster a culture that promotes continuous learning, innovation, and personal development. Apply today and grow with Echo!
Sr. Cisco Network Engineer w/ Palo Alto will maintain the resiliency and operational aspects of the Echo enterprise network. This role will perform all aspects of complex configuration, implementation and troubleshooting wired and wireless communication infrastructure, supporting data, voice and video in converged and non-converged configurations. The Senior Engineer must maintain a detailed working knowledge of network technologies and would understand how data moves between Clouds, SaaS Solutions, and Legacy environments while adapting the network to meet the needs of the Enterprise wide range of applications and systems.
Sr. Cisco Network Engineer w/ Palo Alto will maintain the resiliency and operational aspects of the Echo enterprise network. This role will perform all aspects of complex configuration, implementation and troubleshooting wired and wireless communication infrastructure, supporting data, voice and video in converged and non-converged configurations. The Senior Engineer must maintain a detailed working knowledge of network technologies and would understand how data moves between Clouds, SaaS Solutions, and Legacy environments while adapting the network to meet the needs of the Enterprise wide range of applications and systems.
Essential Position Functions:
Principal Accountability | Support
Configures, and monitors networking equipment in a redundant environment with real time failover
Secures network system by enforcing Security policies
Maximizes network performance by monitoring performance; troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; collaborating with Echo architects on network optimization
Provide support on a 24x7 basis as required
Principal Accountability | Projects
Taking direction from IT management; implement routing and switching protocols.
Implements systems that match our design criteria including but not limited to: security, scalability, availability, compatibility
Resolve, recommend, develop and implement forward-looking strategies for satisfying business needs and maintaining technical currency with assigned systems
Serve as primary source of technical expertise to project teams
Follow through with projects to their completion
Partners with Security to ensure compliance and enforcement of Security Guidelines
Adhere to, mature, and define the best practices for the support and deployment of our infrastructure across the enterprise stack (routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, load balancing and DNS).
Be a subject matter expert in reducing and resolving production incidents
Enhance proactive monitoring and drive proactive remediation efforts
Enable tooling and process so that L1/L2/L3 operations can resolve most incidents and issues
Configure and manage multiple systems (Load Balancing, DNS, Software Defined Datacenter Network, etc.) and infrastructure both OnPrem and in the Cloud
Principal Accountability | Team Member
Open to new ideas and encourages innovative practices amongst peers
Practices positive interactions - leans on encouragement in place of judgment
Impresses responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks
Acts in the interest of the overall team
Able to multi-task in a fast paced, fluid work environment
Capable of presenting technical ideas and concepts in business -friendly language
Required skills:
Strong understanding of network technologies in a design context, including: LAN (traditional STP plus fabric), ACI, SD-WAN, BGP/OSPF, Tunneling (GRE, IPSec), wireless, cloud networking (public and private), QoS/shaping, GSLB, Netflow/IPFIX, firewalls/WAF, NFV
Minimum 5 years of experience with BGP and routing protocols including OSPF
Minimum 5 years of experience in all aspects of network administration utilizing Cisco iOS
Prior experience building and managing MPLS and SD-WAN network
10+ years of experience in management of large-scale networks in a distributed environment
Experience with network management protocols and systems
Experience with Meraki wireless
Experience with TCP/IP and common network protocols
Experience with routing, switching, and IP subnetting
Cloud Datacenter Connectivity (Azure, AWS) Direct Connect/Transit Gateway
VPN (End user and GRE Failover)
Desired skills:
Experience working with the following products: A10, Palo Alto Firewalls, Palo Alto Prisma, Cisco 55xx series ASA devices, Cisco ISE, TACACT+, ASA100, Cisco ACI, SD-WAN, Cisco Catalyst 4500 and Nexus 9000 switches
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All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, status as a qualified individual with a disability, or Vietnam era or other protected veteran.
