Location
Seattle, WA 98105
Hybrid - Primarily WFH/ Requirement to be able to go onsite as needed for emergency situations.
Working Hours/Time Zone: M-F 8-5PM PST
Job Description
The Network Engineer-III is responsible for the planning, design, configuration, integration & installation of our growing local area network (LAN) and/or wide area network (WAN). The Network Engineer-III will provide leadership in technical support and documentation to various departments and users with regard to the global infrastructure. The Network Engineer-III serves as a liaison to gather network requirements from internal customers, vendors, and other third-party providers.
This role will have a strong focus on F5 technologies, including BIG-IP LTM, GTM, Remote access, traffic management, and application delivery optimization across the enterprise network. Other responsibilities will include Forescout device profiling in a Software Defined Access environment, and managing SolarWinds device monitoring for the Data Center and Enterprise environment.
Work Location
Additional travel to satellite locations in Tacoma, WA, and Olympia, WA.
Responsibilities
- Focus on F5 technologies, including BIG-IP LTM, traffic management, and application delivery optimization across the enterprise network.
Requirements
- High School Diploma or regional equivalent required.
- Bachelor's Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or Network Engineering. At the manager's discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement.
- Minimum 5-7 years of recent experience with network design and build-out of LAN/WANs and/or large-scale network retrofits and remediations.
- Hands-on experience with F5 BIG-IP solutions, including load balancing and application delivery.
- Knowledge of SolarWinds Monitoring and Forescout NAC.
- Must have certifications: CCNA and F5 101.
- Preferred certifications: F5 201, F5 301, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP preferred, CCIE (R&S, SP, or DC) highly preferred (or equivalent experience), Python PCEP.
- Advanced level experience working with most of the following technologies/applications: MPLS, BGP, LDP, QoS, IPv6, OSPF, vPC, STP, DWDM, EVPN, L2VPN, MPLS VPN, L3VPN, FHRP, VLAN, CDP, port-channels, IS-IS, MPLS Inter-AS, VXLAN, DNS, ACL, RADb, Flow spec, RTBH, GitHub, API's, NFV, Hypervisors, virtual switching.
- Multi-vendor experience working with the following platforms: Cisco IOS, ASR 1k (IOS-XE), ASR NCS (IOS-XR), Nexus (NX-OS), Aruba wireless and ClearPass.
- Experience working in a service provider, datacenter/hosting environment, or large-scale enterprise networks.
- Experience researching, evaluating, and recommending hardware and/or software solutions supporting large-scale deployments and/or remediations against the LAN/WAN.
- Experience working with 3rd party networking vendors, with an understanding of the service/hardware/software portfolios they provide.
- Able to identify areas of process improvement and provide input and solution options to streamline work.
- Excellent writing, documentation, and communication skills, possessing the ability to communicate well with technical and non-technical peers.
- Customer service-oriented attitude.
- Experience with network service monitoring systems (Spectrum, Solarwinds, and Cisco DNAC.)