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Senior Network Engineer for our energy client located in North Houston, Texas. This role will be a key member of our clients network and telephony team within the infrastructure operations organization. The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for developing network architecture, providing operational support, and working with teams to deliver projects requiring network expertise.RESPONSIBILITIES:- Support company locations as required both office and remote sites
- Evaluate, design and maintain the most highly technical and complex aspects of existing and proposed network solutions. This includes WAN, LAN, Load Balancing, and Wi-Fi solutions.
- Support and rationalize hybrid voice network currently including VoIP systems and legacy PBXs.
- Design, oversee implementations, assist with troubling shooting outages, maintain highly advanced network strategies to meet a broad spectrum of business requirements
- Maintain key network devices on a day-to-day basis
- Partner with 3rd party teams and managed service providers
- Lead network related projects from start to finish with proper documentation (SOW's, As Builds, & diagrams)
- Support the user community via support tickets and assist in problem resolution
- Make recommendations of advanced solutions which includes both hardware and software
- Prepare network designs, lead implementations, or perform modifications to complex network solutions
- Act as the Network SME for the team
- Monitor all aspects of projects and day-to-day operations as it relates to network services
- Design, implement, maintain, recommend, and support local and remote portions of the Tetra Technologies enterprise network
- Provide timely project status updates to customers, PMO Teams, and management.
- Work in an enterprise IT environment with specific tasks related to network security, and firewall administration. Conduct regular compliance assessments of the enterprise network environment.
- Participate in design and strategy meetings for assigned IT projects for the enterprise network.
- Work with various IT and business-based groups as a subject matter expert (SME).
- Perform complex problem isolation within the network infrastructure.
- Provide continuous research, assessment, recommendations, and implementation of new technologies as needed by the organization.
- Participate in an enterprise infrastructure On-call rotation.
- Participate in an advisory role with other IT and Business based groups as it relates to networking.
- Lead implementation efforts across the enterprise network and ensure that projects are executed according to design, within project time frames, and budget
- Develops and recommends strategies for network growth, Wi-fi, Load Balancing, security, and other network enhancements by maximizing functionality of routers, switches, Wireless, and firewalls.
- Conduct, research, and recommend solutions as it relates to capacity planning for the enterprise network.
- Develop operational knowledge of network-based tools that support the enterprise network environments.
- Bachelor's Degree, or equivalent experience, with 10+ years previous network experience required.
- Certificates such as CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional), CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) preferred.
- BGP and OSPF routing protocols
- Multi-chassis link aggregation protocols (Cisco VPC, Arista MLAG)
- First-hop redundancy protocols (VRRP, HSRP, anycast gateways)
- VXLAN bridging and routing
- Layer 2 spine and leaf architecture
- Layer 3 spine and leaf architecture
- Traditional collapsed core architecture
- Arista EOS
- Cisco NXOS
- Cisco IOS
- Cisco Firepower firewalls
- Cisco Meraki switching and wireless
- VMWare VeloCloud SD-WAN
- 802.1X, preferably via Windows NPS and Cisco ISE
- Microsoft Azure networking components
- VMWare ESXi networking components
- SNMP based monitoring tools
- Remote site performance investigation
- Hands-on experience with networks including physical layer infrastructure, Cisco based LAN, WAN, Firewall, SNMP based software, and interconnecting devices
- Proven knowledge and practical application of network security across firewalls
- Demonstrate the ability to formulate sound solutions based on formal training, research, and expertise with little guidance from management
- Possess a high degree of professionalism, customer service, and dependability
- Strong LAN, WAN, Security, Wireless, and VPN troubleshooting capabilities
- Ability to apply a comprehensive and in-depth knowledge of technical concepts, practices and procedures
- Solid written and verbal communication
- Must present exceptional leadership, problem solving, decision making, and time management skills
- Ability to work in a remote capacity as necessary
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