Principal Networking Engineer

The job family spans across multiple engineering disciplines. Work consists of designing, developing, analyzing, troubleshooting and debugging wired, wireless and security systems, software and solutions. Requires a broad knowledge and application of engineering disciplines, methodologies and tools.

Responsibilities:

• You will be responsible for working with a team of other engineers as well as a larger operational team to implement and support a cloud based wired and wireless NaaS networking solution for a large retailer
• You will be supporting Day 1 and Day 2 operational rollouts including quickly identifying issues and working with the larger team to quickly resolve those issues
• You will be identifying operational efficiencies and communicating those to the larger team
• You may require some travel to retail sites for Day 2 troubleshooting from time to time

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Mechanical, Electrical, or other Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent experience
• Typically 10+ years experience.

Knowledge and Skills:

• You must have deep understanding of wired networking including BGP, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, VRRP/HSRP and Spanning Tree. Working with VXLAN implementations would be a plus. You must not only understand the concepts surrounding these technologies and how to configure them but you must also understand how to troubleshoot them.
• You must have some background in security technologies, including IPSec, SSL/TLS, Certificates and 802.1X.
• You must have some background supporting and/or configuring and troubleshooting authentication and authorization with both radius and LDAP/AD.
• You must have some background knowledge around 802.11 wireless technologies. You must be willing to pick this knowledge up and become very proficient with this technology.
• You must have outstanding written and verbal communication skills
• You must be able to effectively communicate with a wide variety people within the organization including company vice presidents all the way down to a front line network engineer.
• You must live in the Atlanta metro area or be willing to relocate

Principal Networking Engineer job, Atlanta, Georgia (arubanetworks.com)