Company:

Astreya Partners are at the cusp of the new way of working.  We provide IT services and Managed Performance to some of the most exciting companies on the planet.  Our delivery model helps our clients be Positively Productive by matching exceptional people to on-site teams delivering world class IT service.  With engineers in over 30 countries and 70 cities around the world we are a truly global company working with truly global clients.

Role Description
As a Senior Network Engineer, you will deliver a high quality network and corporate network experience. You will be responsible for the day to day operations, design and implementation of the corporate network.  As a Senior Network Engineer you will help lead our clients' network into its next phase of success by developing and scaling new and existing technologies aimed at helping securely connect employees no matter where they’re located.  Our client has a global presence and has employees located all over the world. We connect over 2000 employees in over 14+ global office locations.

Responsibilities
• Help build, scale, deploy, and support our global network and datacenter infrastructure.
• Contribute to the day to day support operation of the global client network.
• Architect, design and implement the next generation office networks for our client.
• Be a hands-on engineer with deep technical experience in networking, systems, and software.
• Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapt quickly to new information, and reprioritize as needed.
• Help develop the team by encouraging strengths, coaching and technical mentoring.
• Lead in the planning of strategic initiatives and ensure organizational alignment in partnership with our key stakeholders.
• Guide in developing and maturing our automation capabilities, based upon analyzing and identifying significant opportunities where automation can tackle volume, systemic or critical operational/repeatable issues.
• Drive our next generation of monitoring, alerting and automation tools to empower the teams with visibility and data to make informed decisions.

Requirements
• 10+ years technical network engineering experience including hands on deployment, configuration and management of routers, switches, firewalls, wifi and security solutions.
• 5+ years of experience in network design and architecture.
• Experience with engineering design of data center networks, new office build-outs and wide-area networks, including points of presence (PoPs), transit, backbone and transport.
• Experience in defining and developing cutting edge technical road-maps to meet the needs of a growing company.
• Knowledge and hands-on experience working with networking protocols.
• Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives in our network. You are able to monitor and measure the health of your service with metrics, SLA reporting, and dashboards.
• Expertise and hands on experience with Juniper, Cisco, network stack.
• Extensive experience on HPE/Aruba network stack
• Extensive experience with authentication/authorization and accounting for enterprise networks.
• Experience working with networking vendors, telecom carriers, transit providers, etc.
• Knowledge of methods and procedures for managing instrumentation, automation, and orchestration
• Strong customer-focus skills with ability to recognize customer requirements, assist customers in achieving their goals, manage customer expectations and consistently achieve high employee satisfaction.
• BA/BS degree from a 4-year university/professional school or equivalent; work experience accepted.

Must Haves:
Expectations of all candidates:  Please rank in order of importance and write in a verifiable manner.
   1. Strong routing and switching skills.
   2. Strong enterprise security skills (802.1x, Radius, certificates and PKI, clearpass experience a plus).
   3. Strong work ethics and team skills. Culture is everything for our client. The candidate needs to be a strong culture fit.

Nice to Haves:
Expectations of all candidates:  Must have at least 50% of these items.  Please rank in order of importance and write in a verifiable manner.
   1. Strong Juniper networks experience (switching, security and routing will be soon all Juniper), great junos knowledge (10k8, QFX5100, EX4300, EX9200, SRX and MX is a plus).
   2. Strong HPE/Aruba clearpass knowledge (that would be a great nice to have).
   3. Strong security skills (VPN, 1x, corporate network security).
   4. Automation and scripting skills

What can Astreya offer you?
Working with some of the biggest firms in the world as part of the Astreya delivery network Employment in the fast growing IT space providing you with brilliant career options for years to come Introduction to the new ways of working and awesome technologies Career paths to help you establish where you want to go A company-wide mentoring program to advise you along the way Online training courses through CBT-nuggets to upskill you Performance management system to provide you with meaningful, actionable feedback Dedicated management to provide you with a point of leadership and care Internal promotion focus.  We love to build people from within. Numerous on-the-job perks Peer Recognition Market competitive rates and benefits