WAN Engineer - (US-NY-New York)

WAN Engineer - (US-NY-New York)

Compensation: $140K - $150K / Year
Minimum Education: Bachelors
Job Type: Full Time
Jobcode: TNRJA9

Salary quoted above PLUS bonus 

A growing global company is seeking a talented and motivated senior WAN network engineer to join its Global Backbone Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the team that is responsible for planning, designing, engineering, and supporting an advanced carrier class WAN environment in an enterprise setting. This fast-paced environment will challenge your knowledge of BGP, MPLS, QoS, Multicast, Cisco hardware, Cisco IOS/XR, JunoOS, and other complex network technologies. In this role, you will be an important member of a critical team for our firm. 

Must have core MPLS backbone development experience 

• Primary responsibility to design, build, and support the next generation global backbone infrastructure 
• Act as an subject matter expert (SME) and also provide 3rd level support for Backbone related incidents 
• Proactively monitor and measure the overall infrastructure performance and recommend/drive the necessary corrective measures if needed 
• Evaluate and test new technologies and offerings from various vendors and make recommendations 
• Develop and publish network design templates and other documentation for use by implementation (and other support) teams 
Qualifications 
• Minimum of 7 years experience ideally working in a carrier network or in a large enterprise network in a design, engineering, or architecture role 
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP 
• Hands-on experience with Cisco CRS-1, 7600, 6500, 7200, 
• Strong knowledge of carrier technologies such as SONET, SDH, DWDM, and Ethernet services as well as the ability to work with carriers for troubleshooting purposes 
• Strong understanding of MPLS technologies such as L3 VPN, L2 VPN, and any combination of at least two of the following: VPLS, MPLS QoS, MPLS TE and mVPN 
• Hands-on experience with traffic monitoring and management toolkit, NBAR, NetFlow, SFlow 
• Strong understanding and hands on experience of multicast technologies such as PIM Sparse mode, PIM Dense mode, and PIM SSM 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues 
• Team player with proven track record of successful project delivery 
• Motivated self starter 
• Excellent attention to detail 
• CCIE (any specialization, with lab) is required; CCIE in service provider specialization (CCIE-SP) is desired. PMP/PMI desired 
• Bachelors or higher in relevant field 
Desired Skills 
• Any quantifiable project management skills, certifications, or experience is a plus 
• Any team lead or management experience is a plus 
• Experience with Packet Design, OPNET, and similar tools is a plus 
• Experience with JUNOS is a big plus 
• Familiarity with ITIL framework 
• Juniper MX240 platforms 
• Hands-on experience with packet design route analysis tool and OPNET network engineering and planning tool is desirable 

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