Network Engineer

Job Purpose:

This position will provide design, troubleshooting and operational support for network services of Itron, Inc. As a network delivery associate, you will be supporting on multiple networking projects and in life operational support of day-to-day networking activities. These activities include identifying and resolving application or environmental network issues as tier 2 to the organization as well helping other Network team members in global projects.

Duties:

• Contribute to team effort by delivering and developing technical solution; supporting proof-of-concept efforts; accomplishing related results as needed.
• Identify application or environmental issues.
• Provide Tier 2 technical support to clients and assist in system analysis.
• Identify any requirements by establishing personal rapport with persons in the position to provide solutions.
• Maintains quality service by following organizational standards.
• Prepare reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information.
• Maintain technical knowledge by attending educational workshops; reviewing publications; attaining product certifications.
• Maintain equipment and systems by designing, implementing, and supporting end to end network infrastructure and ability to perform software/firmware upgrades etc.

Minimum Requirements:

• Cisco CCNA Preferred
• Minimum 3-5 years’ experience in Network Engineering (Recent experience and technologies, please)
• 2 years college (associates/technical) or equivalent training.

Required skills

• Knowledge and experience with Routing protocols (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP) as well as HSRP/VRRP. Multicast IPv4 and IPv6 knowledge.
• Hands-on experience with L2/L3 solutions with Cisco Nexus 5xxx/7xxx/9xxx/22xx series and Catalyst 3750-X/3850-X.
• Hands-on experience and expertise with Cisco Catalyst Switches 6xxx, 5xxx, 4xxx, 3xxx, RSM; Cisco Routers 7x00, 4x00, 3600, 2600, 2500, 1900, 800;
• Ability to design and migrate from older multivendor environments.
• Experience with Wireless Infrastructure design and implementation Cisco/Aruba.
• Strong understanding of Secure access solutions Cisco ISE/ACS/Clearpass.
• Cisco ASA Firewalls Palo-Alto, Fortinet etc.
• Networking industry experience in handling various switched and routed data networks & protocols in a multi-platform environment with high availability.
• Excellent analytical and organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to verbally translate and articulate complex technical issues for the advocacy of non-technical users.
• Fundamental SAN networking knowledge

Beneficial skills:

• SD-WAN/SD Networking/SASE experience

• Experience in Cisco APIC-EM or DNA Center or other Scripting experience
• Experience use and or configuring NMS such as SolarWinds
• Ability to implement, configure, and troubleshoot Cisco FirePOWER Next-Generation Firewall Services.
• Desired Virtual networking knowledge with vSphere 5.x/6.x standard and distributed vSwitches and/or Cisco Nexus 1000V, Cisco ASR/CSR
• Desired knowledge in networking to facilitate Cloud solutions, connectivity, security etc. (Azure)