Network Engineer II
Company Description
Zayo Group Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: ZAYO) provides communications infrastructure solutions, including fiber and bandwidth connectivity, colocation and cloud infrastructure to the world’s leading businesses. Customers include wireless and wireline carriers, media and content companies, cloud providers, finance and professional services and other large enterprises. Zayo provides customers with flexible solutions and self-service through Tranzact, an innovative online platform for managing and purchasing bandwidth.
Position Description
The Network Engineer is responsible for building, maintaining and documenting the enterprise and management data communications and telecommunications global networks. The preferred candidate will have four or more years of experience working with enterprise data networks that includes the regular provisioning of layer 2 and layer 3 data communications devices from a variety of manufacturers including Cisco Systems, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks. The exceptional candidate will flourish in a fast-paced, rapidly growing, forward thinking corporate environment.
Responsibilities
- Engineer and design solutions, which can include public and private telecommunications networks.
- Project manage network installation projects consisting of telecommunications equipment, systems, and services; develop operating procedures; and provide on-going technical support.
- Assume operational responsibility for SD-WAN/LAN/WAN, wireless and monitoring systems as assigned.
- Interact between internal groups and provide recommendations and support.
- Record and track orders and complete tickets to meet requested service dates.
- Develop and recommend strategies to address specific telecommunications, connectivity and related service needs.
- Promote standardization across technical environments, driving changes when necessary for architectural improvements, supportability, and reliability.
- Provide technical support to internal work groups.
- Perform maintenances and upgrades on the network to improve reliability and security.
- Provision new circuits, routers, and other network equipment as required.
- Troubleshoot network issues and develop solutions.
- Integrate new networks that have been acquired by Zayo Group.
- Take part in on-call rotation
Qualifications
- Proven hands-on network engineering experience.
- Strong troubleshooting skills.
- 3+ years’ experience with Cisco and Juniper network environment supporting datacenter and corporate-facing infrastructure.
- 3+ years of hands-on networking experience is required with Cisco and Juniper routers and switches.
- 3+ years’ experience troubleshooting and configuring firewalls and VPN appliances (ideally Palo Alto and Cisco ASA).
- Understanding of Network routing and switching protocols: OSPF, BGP, MPLS, DIA, OMP, VRRP, IPSEC, VLAN, ACL’s, VPN, STP, port channel, 802.11, QoS and L2/L3 etc.
- Experience in planning, designing Implementation & troubleshooting of Data Center networks.
- Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model and associated equipment.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools.
- Understanding of SDWAN.
- Good understanding of Network Automation concepts.
- Cisco vEdge, cEdge, Meraki and Juniper QFX, EX and MX experience is a plus.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Effective time management skills and customer focus.
- CCNA is a plus.
Rewards
Competitive compensation
Excellent benefits including health, dental, vision, 401 (k), disability and life insurance
Fitness membership discounts
Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave