Senior Network Engineer
Description For Senior Network Engineer
Scott Data Center, located in Omaha, Nebraska, is seeking a passionate, talented Senior Network Engineer to join their team. The role involves participating in the building and maintenance of the network that services their data centers and clients. The team adheres to evidence-based methodology and agile principles, fostering a collaborative environment where you can impact organizational direction.
Responsibilities include implementing and managing the network, developing and supporting network-as-a-service offerings, Megaport support, and adhering to IT Service Management and Service Desk practices. The position offers great exposure to business and technical leadership, with intentional opportunities for learning and growth.
The ideal candidate should have:
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, including documentation and diagramming
- Experience managing production data center environments
- Understanding of spine-leaf architecture
- Proficiency with networking protocols (MPLS, VLAN, Q-in-Q, VXLAN, EVPN, LACP, MLAG, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF)
- Firewall experience (FortiGate or Palo Alto preferred)
- Site-to-site and Client VPN experience
- Public or private cloud networking experience (Azure or AWS preferred, VMware NSX or Nutanix Flow preferred)
- Automation, scripting, or programming experience (Ansible or Python preferred)
As a key team member, you will design and implement network services, automate tasks, ensure reliable operation of mission-critical network services, resolve operational issues, and collaborate with clients, partners, vendors, and service providers.
Join Scott Data Center to shape future network architecture and work in a modern operations approach that leverages automation and orchestration.
Responsibilities For Senior Network Engineer
- Design, implement, manage, and support network services in the data center, wide-area network, and public or private clouds
- Automate tasks to drive stability and scaling of the network and associated systems
- Ensure mission-critical network services operate reliably
- Resolve operational issues, participate in retrospectives, and implement improvements
- Implement and support data center network in a spine-leaf architecture
- Collaborate with the Director of Technical Services as a liaison with clients, partners, vendors, and service providers
- Interact with and support clients
Requirements For Senior Network Engineer
- BS or MS in Engineering, Computer Science, or related field, or equivalent professional experience
- 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Excellent communication and organizational skills, including documentation and diagramming
- Experience managing production data center environments
- Understanding of spine-leaf architecture
- Proficiency with networking protocols (MPLS, VLAN, Q-in-Q, VXLAN, EVPN, LACP, MLAG, BGP, IS-IS, OSPF)
- Firewall experience (FortiGate or Palo Alto preferred)
- Site-to-site and Client VPN experience
- Public or private cloud networking experience (Azure or AWS preferred, VMware NSX or Nutanix Flow preferred)
- Automation, scripting, or programming experience (Ansible or Python preferred)
