Senior Network Engineer

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Senior Network Engineer
The candidate will be responsible for the design, implementation and operational support of network connectivity and project initiatives involving the global network. Provide technical leadership to the firm and mentorship to members of the IS Operations teams. Ensure stability, best practices engineering, and detailed troubleshooting disciplines are applied to firm systems. Encompasses responsibility for activities, including but not limited to wide area network connectivity technologies, network design, routing techniques and protocols, Quality of Service and traffic prioritization, IP address administration, LAN / WAN / SAN hardware, routers, switches and related technologies. Technical responsibility will extend to all offices of the firm and may require travel to any or all offices. Must be a team player with the ability to lead and manage projects, demonstrate excellent communication skills and possess the ability to manage a multitude of assignments independently. Assess risks and impacts arising from a business disruption and make decisions and determine actions independently and expediently to eliminate those risks and ensure the continuity of business. Evaluate critique and potentially supervise the performance of Network Engineers. Budget preparation and expenditure decision making as it relates to Operations projects and long-term planning. Vendor and invoice management to ensure supportive relationships and fiscal responsibility. Understanding of firm and industry best practices and business requirements in order to gather data for analysis by conducting interview and independent research. Analyzing, planning, testing, and implementation of the wide area and local area network connectivity. Design, implement and ensure that systems achieve 100% uptime 24/7/365 operational availability. Act as technical project manager and responsible for project related communications to stakeholders. Fully resolve problems with firm systems and technologies. Participate in making decisions and determining actions independently and expediently to eliminate risks and ensure the continuity of business. Analyzing, planning, testing, and implementation of the wide area and local area network connectivity. Actively pursuing new technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency of firm systems. Act to support all technical projects arising from the Project Management Office (PMO). Performing root cause analysis on systems issues and determine recommended solutions to resolve problems. Determine and decide when to escalate problems to vendors and ensuring resolution and reporting of resolution to stakeholders. Provide training and mentoring on problem identification, analysis and troubleshooting techniques and best practices to Operations teams. Design, implement, test and maintain business continuity and disaster recovery solutions, processes and procedures. Maintaining documentation of network, processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides and change management logs. Wide Area Network transports including MPLS. Storage Area Networks. Enterprise class routing protocols BGP, ElGRP. Converged Networks carrying voice, video and data. Traffic prioritization, including Class of Service and QoS. Cisco router, switching and wireless hardware technologies. Enterprise switching and wireless hardware technologies. WAN optimization / traffic shaping technologies. Network monitoring and reporting tools. Use of network troubleshooting tools including network sniffers. Compuware application performance analysis tools. Knowledge of WAN/LAN traffic requirements for a MS Windows based applications environment. Business continuity and disaster recovery disciplines. Alerting, monitoring and response disciplines. Data center operations and disciplines. WAN transports & Services (MPLS, SONET, Internet – Multicarrier & Redundancy).

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