L2 Network Engineer

Company: Professional Business Services Intl.
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: July 1, 2020

Job Description:

Professional Business Services (PBS Intl.) is a team of business and technology specialists experienced in addressing the technology issues faced by top companies throughout the United States. Currently we are assisting a technology employer looking for a L2 Network Engineer. Listed below are the required skills as part of the position. This is a great opportunity to work and grow your skills in an innovative environment! 6 months, possible CTH The Network Engineer will join a high-performance Infrastructure Engineering team based in San Francisco, CA. The ideal candidate will provide leadership as well as a disciplined but agile practical and hands on approach to the design, support, and continuous optimization of our cutting-edge trading and enterprise networks. Key attributes expectations include the following Develop in-house and employ industry best practices to build, deploy, support, optimize hardware and software on fleet of switches, routers, firewalls, and other components of the network infrastructure Monitor and fine-tune network performance for maximum operating efficiency within a resource intensive, high bandwidth, and ultra-low latency production environment Using a services oriented and customer friendly approach, partner with internal infrastructure, software, and business teams to solve the most challenging technology and business problems through clever yet elegant and practical solutions engineering in a fast-paced environment middot Ability to develop multiple options to address complex problems and perform cost benefit analysis to clearly demonstrate potential business value for any proposed solution Identify, prioritize, and manage projects independently and in collaboration with peers as requirements and timelines dictate Strong, organized, and effective approach to troubleshooting complex problems with the agility that is suitable for a high stakes trading environment Ability to standardize and automate for efficiency but willingness to develop, deploy, and support custom solutions when there is a clear benefit to the firm in doing so Excellent technical and non-technical verbal and written communication skills Ability to create and maintain technical design and support documentation Manage and partner with Vendors to support existing systems as well as to keep ahead of new technologies to evaluate for potential benefit to the firm Comfortable working in an environment with a high rate of change and, when appropriate, willingness to step outside of primary role in order to facilitate successful outcomes Passionate about improving your own skills as well as those of your colleagues through knowledge sharing and mentoring Comfortable working in a multidisciplinary team of varying skill levels Open to new and unconventional ways of doing things, ability to adapt methods, skills, and technology when there is a clear benefit to the firm in doing so A very strong sense of purpose, enjoyment, ownership and accountability in everything you do Required Skills Experience A strong technical background and well tested experience as a Network Engineer is essential to succeed in this position. Duties to include project-based network design and deployment, hardware and OS support, configuration change management, service and system monitoring. At minimum, candidates should be able to demonstrate proficiency in the following areas Network platform hardware architecture Optical and copper based physical media to support 1102540GBASE Ethernet Best practice design principles for secure, resilient, scalable, highly-available LAN, WLAN, MAN, WAN, B2B, Edge and other purpose-built networks Key Protocols Technologies TCP, UDP, IP, BGP, OSPF, PIM, IPSec, NAT, VXLAN, STP, LACP, gateway redundancy, tunnelling, LLDP, SNMP, Syslog, DNS, DHCP Multicast technologies and applications Troubleshooting using packet capture analysis and other tools Administering and utilizing enterprise monitoring tools Ability to thoroughly scope and document tasks Collaborate effectively with users of varying skill levels Desired Skills Familiarity supporting high bandwidth and ultra-low latency applications Comfortable working with Linux systems Python andor bash scripting experience Automation, preferably Ansible Jira Confluence If you meet the qualifications above, are driven by results, and are looking for an exciting career. Please send resume to jobspbsintl.com, ATTN PBSJOB4344 with the title of the position for which you are applying and you will be contacted for an interview time. NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE Contact Email jobspbsintl.com mailtojobspbsintl.com

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