Job Description
Blue Lava is seeking a highly motivated Network Engineer. The Network Engineer will be responsible for deploying, managing, and ensuring stability of the local/wide area network infrastructure technologies to provide high availability, fault tolerance, and scalability to effectively and efficiently support mission critical business systems. The ideal candidate must demonstrate a high level of competence in LAN/WAN technologies, routing and switching platforms, troubleshooting critical issues, and coordination of implementation and be able to performs moves, adds and changes of equipment and systems specifically following the company change management policies.
Responsibilities
- Monitor and maintain performance & capacity
- Work with vendors and cross-functional teams for on-going design efforts and systems support
- Troubleshoot and resolve service level and/or critical and system related issues
- Document projects including scope, costs, schedule, testing and terms of delivery to ensure project is completed with the highest level of quality, on time and within budget
- Will participate in an on-call/standby rotation and is expected to respond after hours for service restoration, troubleshooting and/or repair of all necessary equipment
- Provides technical guidance to other organizations within Blue Lava
- Test and validate all new hardware, software and connections for proper configuration and performance
- Perform scheduled maintenance on all networking equipment such as software and equipment upgrades and assist with such maintenance
Preferred Skills
International deployments and working with international team members
Experience with storage network deployment and support
Experience with VMware virtualized environments and their supporting architectures
Experience in lab-testing, certification of configurations, and validation testing
Experience managing complex technical projects
Strong Unix/Linux skills and the ability to script in Perl or other code base preferred
Qualifications
BS, BA or equivalent from an accredited four-year university or college
A minimum of 3 years of data network operations and support experience
Industry recognized network certifications is preferred but not required
Eligible to work in the United States (we are not able to sponsor visas at this time)
Ability to travel up to 10%