IP Network Engineer

**100% remote role, candidates can reside anywhere in the contiguous United States. However, this role requires travel on a "as needed" basis.

Communication Technology Services (CTS) is building a next-gen (4G & 5G) managed service business to provide enterprise customers with a turnkey Private Cellular Network (PCN) for mission critical business applications and wireless connectivity needs.

The role of IP Network Engineer designs, implements, operates, and maintains IP network connectivity within and between CTS data centers, customer-premise-deployments and with partners.

The ideal candidate has 5+ years of work experience, is equally comfortable and effective in both Linux and Cisco and various network equipment Operating Systems, is able to independently engage a situation, gather information, make information-based decisions and communicate well with and across teams and with customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, Implementation, Operation and Maintenance of CTS’s IP Data Networks, within and between CTS Data Centers, customer-premise-deployments and partners

• (LAN/WAN/VPN/SD-WAN)

• Routing, Switching, Firewalling

• Internet connectivity including BGP multihoming, ASN administration, looking glass

• IP Planning and Address Space Allocation

• VPNs and tunneling, including IPSec

• VLANs in a virtualized environment (802.1q)

• VRF and policy routing

• NAT and load balancing

• Network security- IPS, DOS, Firewalls

Qualifications

• Expertise in design, implementation, operation and maintenance of LAN, WAN, VPN connectivity. SD-WAN experience desirable.

• Experience with a variety of network equipment vendors’ hardware and software (Cisco, Fortigate, Juniper, Mikrotik, etc.) is highly desirable.

• IP networking – IP addressing and subnetting, network address translation, routing protocols, Linux IP tables, Linux bridging.

• Proficiency in troubleshooting production issues, solving problems, and implementing updates to production hardware and software environments

• Analysis of packet captures to distinguish between problems at the protocol or
  application level vs. network connectivity.

• Understanding of internet protocols, including but not limited to, HTTP, DNS, RADIUS,
  SSH, and SMTP.

• Demonstrated experience in effective decision-making within a high-pressure 24×7 environment.

• Strong research, investigation and evaluation skill.

• Ability to identify and clearly communicate problems/support requests in order to influence the prioritization of production defects and/or enhancements

• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.

• Experience with Cacti and Nagios monitoring systems strongly desired.

• Relevant experience would include, DevOps, 24x7x365 operations, IP routing, ethernet switching, IP and Application load balancing, firewalls, IPv4, IPv6, participation in 24×7 on-call rotation.

• Good organizational and vendor management skills, inclusive of issue tracking, metric reporting, etc.

• Results-oriented and highly flexible, able to work with minimal supervision.

Education & Certifications

4 Year Technical Degree (Example: BSCS, BSEE, etc.) or equivalent workplace experience.

Requirements

• Ability to work outside of normal business hours when needed.

• Ability to travel on an “as needed” basis.

Industry

• Wireless Communications & Telecommunications

• Information Technology & Services

Employment Type

• Full-time

• Exempt

Job Functions

• Data Center Operations/Engineering

• Information Technology

• Job Category: IT/Networking