Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GCI is a company that provides critical services to Alaskans, and they are seeking a Cloud Network Engineer III. The role involves supporting and enhancing network infrastructure, collaborating with various engineering teams, and ensuring high availability and efficiency in cloud and data center environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and implementation of network and/or system facilities utilizing standard engineering concepts of availability, efficiency, redundancy, scalability, and security
- Development of new solutions and continuous improvements of the current network and systems facilities ensuring the integrity of high availability data centers and campus Lan network infrastructure
- Perform audits, forecasts, and manage capacity of IP addressing, bandwidth forecasting, hardware, software licensing, and hosted devices
- Provide detailed reports on network operational status and milestones related to project completion
- Support and manage escalation events
- Automate and streamline operations and processes to rapidly release reliable network infrastructure faster and more frequently
- Configure firewalls, load balancers, routers, and switches, in support of network operations and projects
- Reviews modules for quality assurance
- Remote site support for off-site personnel and customers
- Maximize performance using network monitoring tools, troubleshooting network and system outages, scheduling updates, and collaborating with architects on optimization
- Build and maintain tools for deployment and testing in stable and scalable production environments
- Maintain professional skillset by participating in educational opportunities, technical organizations, reading professional publications, and personal use of technology
- Coordinate with project management and engineering teams on a regular basis
- Develop and update documentation and support materials
- Mentor junior engineers and technicians
- Define, design, implement, and direct the implementation of data center, wide and local area network facilities utilizing standard network engineering principles and concepts of routing, efficiency, redundancy, availability, security, and scalability
- Plan and implement new systems
- Design, build, deploy, and use automation to reduce or eliminate manual work across the network team and tools
- Define KPIs for operational management
- Provide and update operational documentation, training, and network drawings
- Support and manage escalations to resolution
- Work with management and engineering staff to determine future network architecture and planning requirements and assure that needs are met by proposed future designs and long-term plans
- Project coordination to include facilitating customer sales via technical support and engineering efforts
- Mentor, lead, and support junior engineers and technicians
Skills
- A combination of relevant work experience and/or education sufficient to perform the duties of the job may substitute to meet the total years required on a year-for-year basis
- High School diploma or equivalent
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer technologies, network engineering, or related field
- Minimum of six (6) years of experience in any combination of: Progressive experience in cloud networking, Cloud network design and implementation using Engineering Principles, Working with complex network management, including technology insertion
- Thorough knowledge and work experience in network design and configuration utilizing Cisco's Service provider product lines
- High-level knowledge of network virtualization, particularly using VMWare
- Expertise in multiple technical environments that span a broad range of applications
- Associate or professional levels certifications: Cisco, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto and VMWare
- Telecommunications experience
- Other telecom industry or job specific certifications
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