Senior Network Engineer

Posted 11 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
120K-140K Annually
7+ Years Experience
Information Technology
The Role
As a Sr. Network Engineer with Cologix, you will be responsible for engineering, designing, and maintaining a large datacenter network. Daily tasks include evaluating traffic flows, providing tier III support, troubleshooting the backbone network, hardware installations, and responding to customer calls and trouble tickets. Qualifications include 4-8 years of experience, strong communication skills, analytical problem-solving abilities, and proficiency in various technologies and platforms such as Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, and more. Preferred qualifications include CCNA, CCNP, and JNCIA certifications. The role requires strong knowledge of routing protocols, operating systems, VPN configuration, and cloud installation.
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About our Company:

Based in Denver, Colorado, Cologix is North America's leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company. Our platform gives customers access to 40+ digital edge and ScalelogixSM hyperscale edge data centers in 11 markets across the United States and Canada along with a carrier-dense ecosystem of 700+ networks, 360+ cloud providers, 30+ onramps and six Internet exchanges.  We provide our nearly 2,000 customers with direct access to our local operations teams, resulting in strong partnerships enabled by exceptional operational support and unparalleled customer service. Backed by one of the largest North American infrastructure funds, Cologix's experienced leadership team, certified staff and commitment to ESG initiatives help form a culture that values our people, our environment and our clients.

About the Position:

As a Sr. Network Engineer with Cologix you will be responsible for assist in the engineering, design, and maintain a large datacenter network.

What you do daily:

  • Evaluate and maintain traffic flows across transit and backbone links
  • Tier III support for network related problems
  • Troubleshooting of backbone network
  • Evaluate new technologies as needed
  • Responding to trouble tickets and customer calls that are escalated
  • Hardware installations of network infrastructure
  • Turn up of high touch customer deployments

What makes you a good fit: (Qualifications)

  • Minimum 4-8 years’ experience as network engineer
  • Excellent oral and written communications skills and a strong customer service mentality
  • Strong analytical and effective problem solving skills.
  • Manage assigned tasks and projects with little supervision.
  • Quick learner who can adapt to changing requirements
  • Proven experience working in a team-based environment
  • Self-starter who possesses good time management skills
  • Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
  • Diplomatic, positive approach to interacting with employees
  • Must be punctual, reliable, flexible and willing to work additional hours when necessary to meet the demands of the department

Strong Understanding of the following technologies and platforms:
Required:

  • Routers and switches: Cisco, Juniper, Brocade
  • Firewalls: Cisco ASA, Juniper SRX, and Sophos
  • Load balancers -Unix platforms
  • MPLS/EVPN/VXLAN/OTV/L3VPN
  • Core routing experience
  • Strong understanding of routing protocols: eBGP, iBGP, ISIS, OSPF, and EIGRP
  • Strong Layer2/Layer3 background
  • Windows, Linux, and MAC Operating Systems
  • Enterprise Server Configuration (Dell, HP, Supermicro)
  • VPN Configuration
  • Private Cloud Configuration and Installation
  • VMware Essentials
  • Alarm Monitoring
    • Cyber SecurityVPN Configuration
    • Private Cloud Configuration and Installation (vCloud Director)
    • VMware Essentials
    • Physical Racking and Cabling of Enterprise Devices
    • Alarm Monitoring
    • Ticketing System Use

Preferred:

  • Optical Engineering
  • Virtualization: VMWare, Openstack, KVM, Puppet, Chef
  • Scripting: Python, Perl, PHP, and shell preferred

Preferred Qualifications:

  • CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional
  • JNCIA – Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate

***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or transfer sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.***

Benefits:

We offer a competitive benefit package for full-time employees that includes:

  • Medical, dental and vision insurance
  • Flexible spending account options
  • Non-accrued PTO
  • Company paid holidays
  • 401k Retirement Plan
  • Short- and Long-Term Disability

Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience. This position will also be eligible for an annual bonus.

Salary Range

$120,000$140,000 USD

NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.

Cologix is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.  If you need assistance in applying for any of our open positions, please contact us at [email protected] or call 720-940-2551. 

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Cologix’ data centers are ISO 27001:2013 certified. ISO 27001:2013 certification and the Cologix portfolio of information security, information privacy and other industry recognized certifications represents our dedication to insuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of company and customer information systems and assets. At Cologix, information security is everyone’s responsibility. Cologix employees are responsible for:

  • Understanding and following Cologix' information security, cybersecurity and privacy policies, procedures and standards.
  • Ensuring conformance to all information security, cybersecurity and privacy policies, procedures, and standards.
  • Remaining vigilant and reporting any suspicious activity or possible vulnerabilities, weaknesses, threats, or breaches in Cologix information security to company information security and privacy officers.
  • Actively participating in Cologix’ efforts to maintain and improve information security.


Top Skills

Perl
PHP
Python
Shell
The Company
HQ: Denver, CO
298 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2010

What We Do

Cologix is reinventing the edge—building the data centers of tomorrow by integrating hyperscale edge capacity with robust interconnection. Our dedicated, experienced local teams foster industry-leading service, supporting you through every aspect of your digital infrastructure journey.

One connection to our ecosystem empowers your digital transformation, connecting you to the solutions and partners you need.

For a tour of one of our data centers in Ashburn, Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montreal, New Jersey, Silicon Valley, Toronto or Vancouver visit www.cologix.com/contact/schedule-a-data-center-tour/ or email [email protected].

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