Become a Network Engineer at Interop 

  • Position (Location): Irving, TX
  • Department: Technical Realization‐Engineering and Network Operations
  • Reports to: Director, Infrastructure
  • FLSA Status: Full-Time / Exempt

Primary Responsibilities

As a member of the Infrastructure Engineering team, employee in this position will be required to work closely with the customer service, implementation, network operations, quality assurance, and software development teams to efficiently document, troubleshoot, and resolve issues with commercially deployed wireless systems. The position requires a responsible, team oriented, well-organized individual with strong technical and communications skills and the ability to handle multiple concurrent issues while adapting quickly to rapidly changing priorities.
  • Providing technical architectural support and guidance for solution opportunities that involve network design, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and security
  • Provide recommendations for process improvement, documentation for maintaining and supporting highly available network architecture for hosted datacenter, cloud and carrier-grade on premises platforms
  • Responsible for network lifecycle processes including provisioning, patching, and maintenance of network elements across the datacenter and private cloud customer environments
  • Assisting with customer cloud implementations and configurations
  • Assisting carriers with problem solving multi‐party issues in a consultative manner
SECONDARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
  • Providing general assistance with:
    • Implementation of processes and procedures
    • Creation and maintenance of implementation and operations documentation
    • Cloud based, central site and remote installation and/or maintenance activities

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

  • 5+ years of experience in a network administrative role
  • Proficient in network protocols (to include but not limited to): OSPF BGP RSTP STP IPSEC HSRP VRRP VRF VXLAN EVPN DNS LLDP ARP
  • Experience working with network operating systems, such as Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Juniper JUNOS, Fortinet FortiOS, Palo Alto PAN-OS
  • Experience with configuration management tools (Chef, Puppet, Ansible, etc)
  • Understanding of public, private and hybrid cloud architectures
  • Understanding of SDN design and implementation principles
  • Knowledge of network security architecture and support in public cloud and on-prem datacenter environments

Education and Related Experience

  • Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience
  • 3+ years of experience supporting a multiple site network environment
  • Experience around AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, and OpenStack technologies
  • Proficient working with Linux/UNIX, specifically RHEL, CentOS and Ubuntu
  • Scripting experience (Python, Perl, Bash)
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Other Requirements

  • May require working in excess of 40 hours / week
  • Physical requirements:
    • Ability to sit at a desk for one or more hours at a time
    • Ability to operate computer and other equipment in the office
  • Applicants will be asked to provide verification of employment authorization in the United States

Compensation:

  • Competitive depending on experience

Benefits and Perks:

  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance
  • Life and disability insurance
  • 401(k) plan
  • Robust paid holidays, vacation, and sick leave schedule
  • Employee discounts and assistance services
  • Employee referral bonus program
  • Casual dress code
  • A sharp team to collaborate with