Network Engineer

Company Description

Zayo provides mission-critical bandwidth to the world's most impactful companies, fueling the innovations that are transforming our society. Zayo's 141,000-mile network in North America and Europe includes extensive metro connectivity to thousands of buildings and data centers. Zayo's communications infrastructure solutions include dark fiber, private data networks, wavelengths, Ethernet, and dedicated Internet access. Zayo serves wireless and wireline carriers, media, tech, content, finance, healthcare and other large enterprises.

Zayo is a managed network service provider focused on the emerging SDN market. As a pioneer in the SD-WAN segment, Zayo has the platform and the expertise to help enterprises quickly transition from inefficient legacy networks to SDN-based operations resulting in the lower total cost of ownership while improving reliability, application performance, and network security.

Zayo is seeking a Network Engineer to be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the network infrastructure of our customers to ensure maximum uptime for their users. Our Network Engineer role can include design, configuration, documentation and troubleshooting network related items ranging from basic to complex. The Network Engineer is the primary escalation point for the ZAYO NOC for all related support issues. This position will be primarily focused on our Meraki solution.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing Meraki network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks.
• Installing, configuring, and supporting of Meraki network equipment.
• Maintain best practice documentation and other reference materials as needed to document procedures, and methods for the engineering team.
• Report network status to key stakeholders and leadership teams.
• Provide assistance as needed to team members and operations teams for implementations, troubleshooting and repair of network installation and deployments.
• Providing courteous and professional communication with internal departments, customers, and vendors.
• Ensuring ZAYO Networks' standards are followed from beginning-to-end for each client and internal department interaction.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems.
• Work escalations from the ZAYO NOC Support teams to troubleshoot issues and outages.
• Work in the On Call engineering rotation.
• Customer facing position, responsible for working with other network engineering teams
• Minimal travel - Company Wide meetings and customer visits (travel 5%).
• Other related tasks as assigned.

Qualifications:

• Network Engineering configuration and troubleshooting experience with exposure to the following areas:
  • Required, strong knowledge of Meraki MX solutions for edge Networking & Security.
  • Required, strong knowledge of Meraki MS & AP solutions for edge LAN services.
  • Desired (not required) SD-WAN experience VMware, Versa and/or Prisma SD-WAN.
  • Knowledge of Network Diagnostics, protocols, and disciplines, BGP, OSPF, QoS, SNMP, VLANS, STP and VRF-LITE.
  • Strong IPv4 subnetting knowledge and knowledge of IPv6 addressing.
  • Knowledge of edge network security, encryption technologies & best practices.
  • Ability to explain network related issues to both technical and non-technical internal and external teams.

Education/Experience:

• Required: CCNA (Cisco Certified Network Associate) or CCNP (Cisco Certified Network Professional).
• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or equivalent work or military experience.
• Minimum of 4 (four) years' experience as Tier 3 Support at an ISP/MSP

  OR

• Minimum of 2 (two) years' as a Network Engineer or higher supporting enterprise customers of all sizes.

Base Pay Range: $78,500 - $117,705 commensurate with experience.

Benefits, Rewards & Wellness

• Excellent Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Retirement 401(k) Savings Plan
• Fitness membership discounts
• Generous paid time off policy including paid parental leave

Zayo provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, provincial or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.