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Senior/Principal Network Engineer-March 2024
Columbus
Mar 28, 2026
About Senior/Principal Network Engineer

  Description:

  Job Description

  Must have:

  • Automation - Ansible (SRE concepts)

  • Data center technology - Know it cold

  • Palo Firewall

  • F5 load balancer

  • Route/switch

  • DNS

  Job Profile Summary:

  The OS Platform Engineer (Network Operations) develops the operational vision and direction for the team in collaboration with the Network Operations managers.

  Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Makes decisions of a global, strategic nature by analyzing complex data systems and incorporating knowledge of other lines of business.

  • Spearheads complex programs that span multiple inter-organizational units and interfaces with more experienced management.

  • Is a leader in identifying critical, high pay-off technology strategies and prioritizes team efforts accordingly.

  • Possesses advanced knowledge of business application and services.

  • Responsible for coaching and mentoring less experienced team members.

  • Provide Level 3/4 engineering support for the corporate enterprise network.

  • Maintains current professional and technical skills.

  • Keeps abreast of current and emerging technologies, how they integrate and drive value.

  • Performs advanced break/fix troubleshooting and mentors junior engineers.

  • Provides failure or root cause analysis when required.

  • Resolves the most complex issues in the environment with little to no supervision, relying on his/her ability to pull together technical resources to gather accurate information to provide data driven solutions.

  • Provide after hours and on-call support as needed.

  • Understand network triggers and execute appropriate workflows.

  • Demonstrated ability to engineer reliability through automated response.

  • Supports the development and improvement of technical engineering documentation in accordance with standards.

  • Author operational documentation and knowledge base articles of known issues and solutions.

  • Experience automating workflows to troubleshoot, integrate systems, and eliminate toil.

  • Knowledge and experience with core network automation skills: Python, JSON, Linux, Java, DevOps, and Git.

  • Performs other duties as assigned.

  Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree

  • 10+ years of relevant experience

  • Critical thinking skills, must be a self-starter, able to direct activities of the team, dependable and reliable.

  Preferred Qualifications:

  • Extensive infrastructure, applications and security knowledge and experience

  • Must own ability to learn fast, adapt to new technology and keep current with industry

  • Embrace and focus on emerging technology and evangelize to the rest of the team

  • Experience with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud

  • Experience in AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, VPC, S3 and similar technologies a strong plus

  • Experience with database technologies and other data services technologies

  • Experience with any programming language: C, C++, Java, Python or C#.

  • Experience supporting complex production network environments.

  • Experience with Cisco and Palo Alto Firewalls, Proxies, F5 LTM/GTM/ASM, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI/MSO), Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco DNAC and Infoblox DNS/DHCP.

  • In-depth experience with dynamic routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.

  • Advanced understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design

  • Advanced understanding of performance and monitoring

  • Proficient in more than one specific infrastructure technology

  • Technical certifications such as Cisco CCNP-Enterprise or Datacenter, CCIE, Palo Alto PCCSA, PCNS, PCNSE, or F5.

  • Excellent communications skills (written and verbal) and ability to work both independently and in a group.

  • Experience in an enterprise environment and previous banking/financial industry experience is a plus.

  • An outcome obsessed engineer with a focus on reliability. Drive decisions through data and base them on business outcomes: MTTR, MTBF, Business Delivery.

  • Experience with coding/scripting/automation/orchestration platforms(Python, Ansible), including interfacing with APIs

  • Experience writing Ansible Playbooks in YAML

  • Experience in Network monitoring tools (i.e., NetFlow Tracker, Elastic, and Splunk) is a plus

  • Experience in Software Defined Network is a plus

  Skills:

  Network engineering, Firewall, Cisco routers, Router, Paloalto, Ansible, Cisco switches, Data center

  Top Skills Details:

  Network engineering,Firewall,Cisco routers,Router,Paloalto,Ansible,Cisco switches,Data center

  Additional Skills & Qualifications:

  RTR

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  II or Network Engineer IV

  Experience Level:

  Expert Level

  About TEKsystems:

  We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

  The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

  We are an equal opportunity employers and will consider all applications without regard to race, genetic information, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability or any other characteristic protected by law. To view the EEO is the law poster click here. Applicants with disabilities that require an accommodation or assistance a position, please call 888-472-3411 or email [email protected]. This is a dedicated line designed exclusively to assist job seekers whose disability prevents them from being able to apply online. Messages left for other purposes will not receive a response.

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