Network Engineer
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise LAN, WAN, wireless, and data center infrastructure — routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, VRFs, VLANs), data center fabrics, SD-WAN, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
- Troubleshoot complex, cross-domain incidents to root cause, including voice, video, and contact-center quality issues (QoS, SIP/RTP, WebRTC, jitter, latency, packet loss).
- Own network monitoring and telemetry — configure monitoring platforms, flow data (NetFlow/sFlow/IPFIX), SNMP, syslog, and packet capture; tune thresholds to reduce alert noise.
- Execute change management with documented plans, peer review, validation, and rollback; participate in on-call and major-incident escalation.
- Serve as network/telecom SME to data, analytics, and ML teams — defining what constitutes an actionable incident, validating correlation and anomaly-detection output, and reviewing AI-generated recommendations before execution.
- Automate operational tasks using Python, Ansible, or vendor APIs; maintain configuration standards, runbooks, and topology documentation.
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
- 5+ years hands-on enterprise network engineering in production environments.
- Deep routing and switching expertise and strong TCP/IP fundamentals — able to reason about the full path a packet takes.
- Experience with enterprise platforms from one or more major vendors (Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet, F5).
- Working knowledge of voice/video networking — QoS for real-time media and the causes of call-quality degradation.
- Hands-on with monitoring, flow analysis, and packet capture tools (SolarWinds, PRTG, Zabbix, ThousandEyes, Wireshark, or similar).
- Firewall and network security experience — segmentation, ACLs, VPNs, secure remote access.
- Scripting ability (Python or Ansible) and familiarity with ITSM and change management processes.
- Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
PREFERRED
- Data center fabric (Cisco ACI, VXLAN/EVPN), SD-WAN deployment, or cloud networking (Azure/AWS).
- Exposure to observability and telemetry pipelines (Splunk, Elastic, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or similar).
- Familiarity with modern data platforms and SQL, or with AIOps / AI-assisted operations.
- Experience in a regulated industry; consulting or client-facing delivery background.
- Certifications: CCNP (Enterprise, Data Center, or Collaboration), CCIE, JNCIP, AZ-700, or equivalent.
To apply for this job email your details to recruiting@nstarxinc.com
