Senior Network Engineer

Strategy & Planning

1. Design, deploy and manage all company switching, routing, firewall, VPN, wireless, cable plants, and network management systems across a wide range of complex architectures, platforms and mediums.
2. Lead engineer on assigned network upgrade projects.
3. Mentor and train junior network engineering staff to ensure they have the tools to be successful.
4. Effective communication skills and customer service with the ability to communicate IT issues to Sr IT Leadership.
5. Define and follow standards and best practices for network design, testing, and implementation methodology.
6. Document the environment as needed.
7. Manage cloud networking components, native and vendor appliances, to ensure connectivity between systems.
8. Provide day to day support to ASRC IT customers by ensuring IT service tickets assigned are being addressed and resolved within established SLA parameters.

Skills

1. Installs, configures, manages and troubleshoots various network, infrastructure, hardware and software components.
2. Responds to service/work requests that fall into the Network Administration queue in a timely fashion.
3. Strong oral and written communications skills.
4. Supports various business units across the company.
5. Manages critical escalations to 3rd Parties and vendor support when required.
6. Works directly with Telco/ISP to troubleshoot existing or onboard new services.
7. Balances the ability to provide day-to-day support and quickly responds to new issues, while still ensuring that project efforts are delivered on time with high quality
8. Effectively uses monitoring/administrative tools to maintain network uptime and efficiency.
9. Configure and deploy routers and switches
10. Data Center routing and switching experience
11. Network security experience
12. An ability to think critically about systems and to make adjustments consistently as needed.

ASRC’s Core competencies include Leading Self, Leading People and Leading the Organization. In addition to our core competency model, our framework includes competencies specific to the various levels of positions within our company. For more information on our core competencies please contact the HR Department and reference the ASRC Leadership Framework.

Customer Focus

• Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.

Drive for Results

• Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.  

Problem Solving

• Uses rigorous logic and methods to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all fruitful sources for answers; can see hidden problems; is excellent at honest analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn't stop at the first answers.

Time Management

• Uses time effectively and efficiently, concentrating his/her efforts on the more important priorities.

1. Bachelor degree in information systems, computer science, engineering, or a related discipline plus a minimum 8-10 years of progressively responsible and complex information technology experience managing or performing information systems design activities. An equivalent combination of education and experience from which comparable knowledge and skills have been acquired may be substituted for degrees.
2. Experience with Cisco hardware and IOS configuration and troubleshooting. Cisco CCAN/CCNP/CCDP certifications preferred.
3. Experience with Cisco Meraki hardware and configuration preferred.
4. Experience with various network technologies, services, and protocols including VLAN, VPN, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, and QoS
5. Experience with (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Cisco routers, switches (Nexus and Catalyst), ASA’s, and 802.11 wireless controllers and access points.
6. Experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama centralized management and logging.
7. Experience and expert working knowledge of networking features and protocols such as spanning tree, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, STP, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, and caching/acceleration/proxy devices and services.
8. Experience with Cisco Data Center (Nexus, Virtualization, and FCoE) preferred.
9. Experience with standards based network monitoring and management tools.
10. Experience Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees or customers.

Ability to read and interpret documents such as safety rules, operating and maintenance instructions, and procedure manuals. Ability to write routine reports and correspondence. Ability to speak effectively before groups of employees or customers.

Ability to add, subtract, multiply, and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions, and decimals. Ability to compute rate, ratio, and percent and to draw and interpret bar graphs.

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.  Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

The physical demands described herein are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk or hear.  The employee is frequently required to sit; reach with hands and arms; and to use hands to finger, handle, or feel.  The employee is occasionally required to stand, walk, climb or balance.  The employee must frequently lift and/or move up to 10 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds.   Specific vision abilities required by this job includes the ability to adjust focus.

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job.  Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The work environment is in a busy office setting.  The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate. While performing the duties of this job, the employee may be occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions and may be required to travel in small and large commercial aircraft.

This position is required to travel up to 30% of the time, pending current IT projects and initiatives.

NOTE:  This document does not create an employment contract, implied or otherwise. The statements contained herein are intended to describe the principal functions of this position, the level of knowledge and skill typically required, and the scope of responsibilities, but should not be considered an all-inclusive listing of work requirements.

ASRC is a drug-free workplace and pre-employment drug testing is part of the hiring process.

ASRC and its family of companies is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, religion, disability, protected veteran status, age or any other legal protected status.  EOE:  M|F|D|V EEO Poster

Arctic Slope Regional Corporation, an Inupiat-owned corporation created as a result of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act.

ASRC's family of companies apply a shareholder preference in employment, to the maximum extent feasible, as authorized by law.