About the job
Job Title: Senior Network Engineer
Location: Seattle, WA
Contract Duration: 6 Months
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Engineer to join our team in the Enterprise LAN/WAN Network space. In this role, you will be responsible for engaging in network operations activities and facilitating network design and planning. Your expertise will be critical in interpreting network data for troubleshooting issues and applying technical knowledge to resolve network incidents. You will manage network projects to build out and maintain network infrastructure with limited supervision.
Key Responsibilities:
· Contribute to long-term network architecture planning for specific services.
· Assist in short- and long-term planning to fulfill network requirements.
· Facilitate the establishment and review of network architecture, standards, and best practices for design and implementation.
· Analyze capacity issues and execute regular maintenance and testing activities to ensure compliance with security guidelines.
· Develop and execute infrastructure automation tasks using Ansible, Python, and other frameworks as necessary.
· Stay updated on job knowledge through educational opportunities and professional publications.
· Monitor network usage, anticipate problems, and provide solutions.
· Identify issues with network management tools.
· Analyze network activity to uncover and prevent systematic errors.
· Report network operational status by gathering and prioritizing data.
· Provide Tier III escalation support for network service incidents to diagnose and resolve critical issues.
· Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation.
· Collect data to support root cause investigations for outages.
· Document architectures, processes, projects, standards, and root cause analyses in both text and diagram formats.
· Contribute to the formulation and implementation of installation standards and procedures.
· Evaluate vendor services and recommend improvements.
· Manage projects under supervision.
Experience Summary:
· Full-time experience with medium to large scale enterprise networks (4+ years).
· IT customer support and service experience (4+ years).
· Proficiency with Cisco Systems switches and routers (3+ years).
· Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, routing/switching concepts, and common routing protocols.
· Firewall experience including TCP/IP filtering, NAT, and stateful inspection (3+ years).

