An extraordinarily talented group of individuals work together every day to drive TNS' success, from both professional and personal perspectives. Come join the excellence!
OverviewTNS has an exciting opportunity for an experienced Network Engineer! This role reports in to our Global Network Infrastructure Engineering Department and will be involved in system-wide complex components and/or complex projects. You will provide direction for entire projects or a project team.ResponsibilitiesPrimary Duties and Responsibilities:
- Key contributor
- Your work will be critical to project success
- Your influence will be at the customer management level
- You may be called upon to solve highly technical, complex problems
- You may be called on to consult for other projects
- Engineering, deployment, and support of the TNS Global IP backbone network
- Delivery of Ethernet based services, as defined by the Metro Ethernet Forum
- Routing protocol design and support (BGP, ISIS, EIGRP, OSPF, PIM)
- WAN/LAN topology design and support
- MPLS design and support
- Data Center design and support
- Load Balancer design and support
- Vendor/hardware assessment and recommendations
- Equipment/Design specifications in support of budgetary planning
- Identify issues and recommend appropriate action/resolution
- Provide guidance to other team members, FRcilities processes & transfer technical skills knowledge
Qualifications:
- 7+ years of design and operations experience in large scale multiprotocol global IP/ISP networks
- 5+ years of experience and expert in TCP/IP and routing protocols (RSVP, LDP, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, PIM, BFD, and FRst Reroute technologies)
- 3+ years of experience with architecture and provisioning of MPLS networks and services including Traffic Engineering, Carrier Ethernet, MPLS L2 and L3 VPNs, VPLS, Circuit Emulation, IPSec, VPNs, IP Multicast, and QOS/COS
- 5+ years of experience in layer-2 Ethernet technologies
- 3+ years working knowledge of Data Center design and operation
- Expertise in current industry WAN technologies/products (SONET, SDH, TDM, Metro Ethernet, etc.)
- 5+ years of extensive hands-on experience with the configuration, debugging, and problem resolution of complex Cisco and/or Juniper based networks
- Experienced with command-line interFRces, and skilled in effective use of various network monitoring and analysis tools such as SolarWinds, SPLUNK, and similar tools
Optional Desired Qualifications:
- IP Multicast
- Hands-on experience with Service Provider class Juniper and Cisco routers and switches
- Server Load-Balancing
- UNIX/Linux Experience
- Traffic Generator Experience
- Project Management Experience
- PERL programming and XML based management experience
Education and Certifications:
- B.S. (or equivalent) in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering. MS preferred.
Certified in applicable Cisco and Juniper technologies
If you are passionate about technology, love personal growth and opportunity, come see what TNS is all about!
TNS is an equal opportunity employer. TNS evaluates qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, protected veteran status, disability/handicap status or any other legally protected characteristic.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of design and operations experience in large-scale multiprotocol global IP or ISP networks
- 5+ years of expertise in TCP/IP and routing protocols, including RSVP, LDP, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, PIM, BFD, and Fast Reroute technologies
- 3+ years of experience architecting and provisioning MPLS networks and services
- 5+ years of experience with Layer 2 Ethernet technologies
- 3+ years of working knowledge of data center design and operations
- Expertise in WAN technologies and products, including SONET, SDH, TDM, and Metro Ethernet
- 5+ years of hands-on experience configuring, debugging, and resolving problems in complex Cisco and/or Juniper networks
- Experience with command-line interfaces and network monitoring and analysis tools such as SolarWinds and Splunk
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology, Computer Science, or Electrical Engineering
- Applicable Cisco and Juniper certifications
- Master’s degree
- IP Multicast experience
- Hands-on experience with service-provider Cisco and Juniper routers and switches
- Server load-balancing experience
- UNIX/Linux experience
- Traffic generator experience
- Project management experience
- Perl programming and XML-based management experience
Transaction Network Services Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Transaction Network Services and has not been reviewed or approved by Transaction Network Services.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off is considered a relative strength, with excellent PTO highlighted and increases after five years. Flexibility around taking time away from work supports a better overall balance for many roles.
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Flexible Benefits — Remote work options and flexibility are frequently highlighted alongside compensation and benefits, improving work-life fit for some teams. This flexibility helps offset more mixed views on other elements of the package.
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Healthcare Strength — Core medical, dental, and vision coverage are in place and are described as solid or subsidized in some contexts. Benefits are presented as competitive, reinforcing a stable baseline of health coverage.
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What We Do
Transaction Network Services (TNS) is a leading global provider of data communications and interoperability solutions. Our global network and innovative value-added services enable transactions and the exchange of information to many of the world’s leading retailers, banks, payment processors, financial institutions and telecommunication firms. Founded in 1990 in the United States, TNS has grown steadily and now provides services to customers in over 60 countries across the Americas, Europe and the Asia Pacific region, with our reach extending to many more. TNS has designed and implemented a global data network which supports a variety of widely accepted communications protocols and is designed to be scalable and accessible by multiple methods.
