Senior Network Platform Engineer

Charlotte, North Carolina

Hybrid

Contract

$60/hr - $70/hr

Job Title: Senior Network Platform Engineer

Location: Salisbury, MD (2 days onsite per week)

Contract Duration: 6 months, with potential for hire

Company: Leading Grocery Retailer

Overview: We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Platform Engineer to join our team within the data center tower. This role is crucial for managing and optimizing our network infrastructure, particularly with Cisco ACI, F5 Load Balancers, and Infoblox/DDI systems. The successful candidate will play a key role in supporting and enhancing our network platform, ensuring reliability and performance across our systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Network Automation: Automate network devices (routers, switches, protocol mediation devices) using tools like Ansible, Python, and other scripting solutions. Leverage JSON for automation tasks and possess strong knowledge in fault monitoring, capacity management, configuration management, and performance management.

• Routing and Switching: Manage complex routing and switching topologies in a Cisco environment, including ASR, Catalyst, and Nexus (NX-OS) equipment. Utilize features such as ACI, OTV, OSPF, BGP, and similar.

• Network Management and Monitoring: Experience with network management and monitoring tools like Cisco DNA, Cisco Prime, SolarWinds, Gigamon, Splunk, and Panorama.

• Key Technologies: Expertise in Infoblox for DNS/DHCP management, F5 Load Balancers for high availability and performance, and Cisco ACI. Familiarity with MS Azure is required.

• Incident Management: Act as a point of escalation for external managed service providers, reviewing incident and problem data, and driving continuous improvement in incident management processes.

• Collaboration and Strategy: Work with the Network Architecture team to implement solutions, participate in strategy discussions, provide feedback on designs, and suggest improvements based on day-to-day operations.

• Business Requirements: Analyze business requirements to ensure that solutions align with networking policies and company controls.

• Device Lifecycle Management: Monitor and manage the lifecycle of network devices, including firmware maintenance for routers, switches, and wireless infrastructure.

• Support and Optimization: Provide Level 4 support for complex network issues, collaborate with HCL, our MSP partner, and ensure that network infrastructure meets business needs and performance standards.

Qualifications:

• Proven experience with Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, Zscaler, F5, Aruba.

• Bachelor’s Degree in related field.

• Knowledge of L2&L3 tech.

• Familiarity with network automation tools is advantageous.

• Relevant certifications are preferred but not required; candidate experience will be prioritized.

• Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to provide advanced technical support.

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You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family

• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits

• Vision Benefits

• Health Savings Account (HSA)

• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts

• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance

• Hospital Indemnity Insurance

• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options

• Paid Sick Time Leave

• Legal and Identity Protection Plans

• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit

• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Veterans/Disability/Women. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.

Posted by: Alyson Muller

Specialization: Network Engineering