Senior Network Engineer

Position: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Ashburn, VA

Duration: Long-term contract with VISA

Description:

This is a Network Engineer position with Visa’s Datacenter Network Engineering team. The selected candidate will work with a high performing team to develop and design robust networks for Visa’s global enterprise network infrastructure.

Key responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and provide ongoing support of Visa’s datacenter LAN infrastructure using various platforms such as Cisco, Arista, and Cumulus Linux

• Gather network requirements for key business initiatives, produce high-level and low-level design documentation for proposed solutions, provide cost estimates and timelines for implementation

• Implement network solutions in a fast-paced environment in a timely fashion while ensuring business critical systems are not impacted during network maintenance windows

• Work closely with the Information Security Office to ensure solutions deployed meet Visa Technical Security Requirements and comply with Visa Key Control policies

• Work closely with the network QA team to ensure all new network designs and changes are tested and certified in non-production environments prior to production deployment

• Provide 3rd level technical support to Visa clients and to technical teams within Visa to resolve network issues and to support the implementation of new network solutions

• Provide highest level of technical consultancy to ensure problem resolution is achieved in the shortest possible time frame

Qualification

• At least 5 years of network engineering experience in large datacenter environments

• CCIE certification or equivalent, and/or a Bachelor's degree preferably in Engineering is preferred

• Expert-level understanding of LAN Switching and L2 protocols such as VLAN, STP, HSRP, VRRP, 802.1q

• Advanced understanding of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP

• Advanced understanding of TCP/IP network protocols, including common application protocols

• At least 3 year’s experience with datacenter network fabric technologies such as MLAG, VPC, FabricPath, VXLAN, MP-BGP, EVPN

• Experience designing highly-secure multi-tenant network solutions

• Experience implementing Cisco Nexus, Arista, Cumulus Linux, Palo Alto / Checkpoint, F5 LTM, Cisco VPN solutions

• Experience with SDN / SDDC solutions (Cisco ACI, VMWare NSX, Openstack, Docker)

• Linux administrator skills

• Experience in automating network tasks using scripting or configuration management tools such as Ansible, Python, or Perl

• ITIL certification preferred

• Experience creating low-level network design documentation including detailed Visio diagrams

• Advanced process orientation and exhibited planning, organizational, and problem solving skills

• Strong interpersonal, facilitation, and leadership skills along with effective communication (both written and verbal in English) skills

Must have skills

5-7+ years of Network Engineer experience. Strong LAN switching and routing. BGP. Enterprise data center - campus routing and switching. Don't need candidates from service providers (Verizon/AT&T, etc.) L2 protocols and routing protocols in JD. Strong communication - Written and Verbal.