About your role:
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for design and development of network services and technologies to meet client and business unit requirements. Primary objective is to identify optimal networking and communications solutions that deliver long term capabilities, capacity, reliability and resiliency for the business units and clients to successfully maintain and grow their business operations
What you’ll do:
- This role involves understanding of the client and business unit requirements, and designing and deploying optimal networking and connectivity solutions that enable clients and business units to achieve their operational and business goals. 
- Required to prepare recommendations and supporting details for formal proposals for network connectivity and configurations. 
- Day-to-day interaction with telecom providers, equipment suppliers and 3rd party network vendors, to engage their technical resources to perform tasks. 
- Role sometimes requires scheduling and attendance on overnight maintenance windows. 
- Resource can expect to routinely be called upon to analyze and interpret traffic and utilization of services on network connections. 
- Participation in disaster recovery exercises, pre-production certification testing and troubleshooting events is expected. 
- Manage partner/client expectations for data communications connectivity and related services to Fiserv products and applications, throughout project(s) lifecycle. Client expectations include functionality, cost, delivery schedule, support readiness and relationships (usually working directly with senior level technical resources, project managers and business decision makers at client). 
Experience you’ll need to have: 
- 5+ years hands on experience required in design, planning, coordination and implementation of technology projects among multiple telecom and equipment vendors and customers. 
- Hands on experience in layer-2 protocols (Spanning-tree), HSRP. 
- Hands on experience in layer-3 protocols (EIGRP ,BGP, OSPF), route distribution, router filtering. 
- Hands on experience configuring Cisco IOS. 
- SDWAN implementation. 
- Prior experience with VRF, NAT/PAT. 
- Load balancer configurations (ACE, Netscaler, F5). 
- NX-OS and Firewall Experience. 
Experience that would be great to have:
- College degree or comparable certification in IT, telecommunications, computer science, or related field is preferred. 
Important info about this role:
- We’re better together! This role is fully on-site 
- This is a full-time, direct-hire position, and no contract options or unsolicited agency submissions will be considered 
- You must currently possess valid and unrestricted U.S. work authorization to be considered for this role. Individuals with temporary visas including, but not limited to, F-1 (OPT, CPT, STEM), H-1B, H-2, or TN, or any candidate requiring sponsorship, now or in the future, will not be considered for this role 
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