Lead Network Engineer

TL;DR

Lead Network Engineer: Designing, deploying, and supporting hirify.global’s global enterprise network with an accent on secure access and high availability across data centers, cloud environments, and campus network. Focus on delivering high-impact network solutions, troubleshooting network outages, and implementing changes to prevent unscheduled outages.

Location: San Jose, CA (in-person/onsite position)

Salary: $136,500 to $253,500

Company

hirify.global hires and develops leaders and innovators who want to make an impact on the world of technology.

What you will do

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and architect solutions that meet business requirements.
• Design, implement, and manage complex network infrastructures, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Lead implementation efforts for large-scale network initiatives, ensuring alignment with business objectives and timely delivery.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for network outages or performance issues, applying advanced diagnostic techniques.
• Develop and enforce network policies, standards, and best practices, staying current with emerging technologies and industry trends.
• Oversee network upgrades, migrations, and integrations, coordinating with other IT teams and vendors to ensure seamless transitions.

Requirements

• Strong experience in advanced networking leveraging TCP/IP, subnetting, switching fundamentals, VLANs, STP, LACP; routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, route redistribution, policy-based routing across Cisco, Arista, HPE platforms.
• Experience in Network design - HA/redundancy (HSRP/VRRP), capacity planning, scalable campus/DC/WAN designs, L2/L3 designs, EVPN/VXLAN, micro segmentation, ACLs.
• Experience providing support for various integrations such as firewalls, virtualization, storage technologies.
• Must be able to troubleshoot issues using packet capture tools like Wireshark/tcpdump and do analysis; provide root-cause analysis.
• Demonstrated technical leadership in mentoring, incident management, problem resolution, stakeholder communication, design presentations, clear documentation, migrations, upgrades, vendor relations, and risk/timeline management.
• CCNP/CCIE certification is must.

Nice to have

• Experience in WLAN architecture, RF fundamentals, roaming, controller/AP operations using HPE/Aruba.
• Experience in enabling Network Automation.
• Experience in Cloud networking routing, VPN (IPSec/SSL), DirectConnect.
• Experience supporting Citrix, F5 load balancer, Cisco VPN, SD WAN.

Culture & Benefits

• Paid vacation and paid holidays.
• 401(k) plan with employer match.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• Variety of medical, dental and vision plan options.