Position: Middle Network Engineer
Company: GeeksForLess Inc.
Category: Sysadmin
Experience required: 3y
English level: upper

The Network Specialist provides advanced network technical expertise and timely support to ensure network stability, scalability and performance. Looking for a long-term cooperation, schedule 10:30 - 19:00 remotely within Ukraine, focus on **Cisco and Palo Alto.**

- Responsible for on-going maintenance of the entire network infrastructure.Includes routers, switches, F5 appliances, security updates and other network assets such as Linux-based servers and tools.
- Assist in the successful planning, installation, configuration and integration of new network infrastructure, such as routers, switches, and FlexPod compute infrastructure (Cisco UCS, Netapp storage arrays).
- Schedule after-hours maintenance windows, coordinate partner notifications as well as coordinate internal QA department resources for any production changes.
- Provides troubleshooting expertise for system and/or network operating issues and ensures that any and all security threats and/or network attacks are appropriately mitigated.
- Monitor network performance using existing deployed tools and able to test and deploy new tools that may be required to improve network visibility.

**Qualifications:**

3+ years of experience designing, implementing, testing, troubleshooting and monitoring Data Centre Networks.
Spoken English
Proficient on the TCP/IP stack as well as the most common routing and switching protocols such as BGP, OSPF, Ethernet and Spanning-Tree Protocol (Minimum CCNP level networking knowledge).
Advanced working knowledge on Cisco IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS operating systems.
Advanced working knowledge on F5 BIG-IP LTM load balancers, or equivalent Application Delivery Controller experience.
Solid knowledge and experience managing Next Generation Palo Alto firewalls or equivalent.
Hands on experience with VPN technologies such as IPSec, Site-to-Site and Remote Access VPNs.
Exceptional troubleshooting, investigational and problem-solving skills, with ability to quickly identify and mitigate issues.
Experience analysing Netflow and Network performance metrics to quickly identify DDoS attacks.
Linux system administration experience with ability to troubleshoot and deploy network monitoring tools within a Linux environment.
Working knowledge of VMware virtual networking or equivalent.
Applied scripting experience or applied knowledge of network automation tools such as Ansible.

Above all, a strong candidate for this role will need to demonstrate a willingness to learn and an appetite for being up to date on the latest and upcoming Networking technologies.