Sr. Network Principal Engineer

Every day, Global Payments makes it possible for millions of people to move money between buyers and sellers using our payments solutions for credit, debit, prepaid and merchant services.  Our worldwide team helps over 3 million companies, more than 1,300 financial institutions and over 600 million cardholders grow with confidence and achieve amazing results.  We are driven by our passion for success and we are proud to deliver best-in-class payment technology and software solutions.  Join our dynamic team and make your mark on the payments technology landscape of tomorrow. 

Required Skills

• In-depth understanding of network communication and routing protocols, specifically BGP and OSPF, not limited route manipulation, distribution, and filtering.

• Ability to design and administer a mixture of platforms and technologies included Routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.

• Strong understanding of the TCP/IP stack and relation to network technologies

• Data Center design concepts for a high availability environment 

• SD-WAN technology and design, deployment and troubleshooting

• Ability to perform discovery and documentation of complex multi-tier network environments

• Maximizes network performance; troubleshooting network problems; scheduling implementations; collaborating with network and application teams.

• Secures network system by identifying, creating, and enforcing policies and standards

• Experience designing multi data center highly available architecture both in traditional and SDN technologies

• In-depth understanding of network documentation, physical and logical diagrams, and being able to provide detailed diagrams of solutions for engineers to follow and build from.

• Evaluating new technologies and creating/performing proof of concepts

• Provide budget planning and estimates for future network solutions and projects

• Oversee configuration and installation network routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers 

• Provide guidance and oversight to other engineers to follow best practices 

• Tier-4 Off-hour support may be required for maintenance windows and/or troubleshooting

• Understanding of PCI security standards and practices

Preferred Skills

• ACI Data Center administration and design

• SD-WAN design and administration

• IPv6 network experience in designing, deploying, and troubleshooting environments

• F5 LTM/GTM load balancer administration and design

• CheckPoint Firewall administration

Education and Experience  

• 8+ years of network engineering, administration, design experience

• 3+ years in the financial technology industry   

• 3+ years of solution architecture experience

• CCIE certification, or demonstrates equivalent experience and knowledge

Key Characteristics

• A professional personal presentation

• A team player who takes responsibility seriously

• Excellent communication skills with a thoughtful and direct style

• Self-starter who takes initiative to present ideas and solutions

Job Structure

Reports to: Director of Principal Network Engineers, Bobby Peterman   

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