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As a Senior Network Engineer with Rocket Software, you will be part of a global, fast-paced IT organization focused on providing world-class service to software development labs and internal departments. Your role will involve implementing equipment installation plans, maintaining network components, troubleshooting issues, monitoring corporate network and voice components, and ensuring all equipment meets corporate and industry best practices. You will lead networking infrastructure projects, collaborate with development labs, mentor junior team members, and contribute to architectural planning.

• Maintain and monitor network infrastructure for availability and performance.
• Evaluate new networking technologies and strategies.
• Participate in project planning and delivery activities.
• Work on multiple projects and work streams concurrently and deliver projects on time and on budget.
• Participate in roadmap and architecture planning activities.
• Respond to network and/or voice related incidents, troubleshoot and provide remediation plans.
• Handle network related incident and trouble tickets, and on-call rotation.
• Maintain network and voice standard operating procedures, diagrams, and maintenance plans.
• Collaborate with third-party support and service vendors to ensure the network stays operational.

• 5-8 years of experience in traditional WAN and LAN using Cisco products (routing, switching, wireless) and protocols such as HSRP, VPC, Port-channels, Spanning Tree, VTP.
• 5-8 years of experience with routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP), QoS and traffic shaping.
• 3-5 years with SD-WAN technologies.
• 5-8 years in a complex, distributed and multi-OS environment with overlapping technologies.
• 5-8 years experience with Palo Alto firewalls, Panorama, and GlobalProtect VPN client.
• AWS, Azure or other cloud infrastructure experience.
• Excellent customer service-oriented attitude and desire to support end users with issues of varying degrees of complexity.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Thorough understanding of troubleshooting complex systems and services from client through network/connectivity and server/storage.
• Ability and motivation to learn new technologies quickly and with minimal support and guidance.
• Ability and motivation to mentor staff members and share knowledge.
• Effective written and verbal communication skills.
• Desire and ability to document configurations in support of a larger team.
• Experience with monitoring software such as Nagios or other network monitoring products.
• Experience with Cisco ACI (Application Centric infrastructure) technologies and Nexus 9K.
• Experience with TACACS and Cisco ISE.

• 5+ years of experience in load-balancing technologies particularly F5 products, IPAM and Visio.
• Bachelor’s degree in the IT field or professional certifications from Cisco, Palo Alto, and F5.

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• Unlimited vacation time as well as paid holidays and sick time.
• Health and wellness coverage options for Rocket employees and dependents.
• Life and disability coverage.
• Fidelity 401(k) and Roth retirement savings with matching contributions.
• Monthly student debt benefit program.
• Tuition reimbursement and certificate reimbursement program opportunities.
• Leadership and skills training opportunities.

Annual salary range: $105,000.00 – $141,750.00 gross before taxes.

Equal Opportunity Employer: M/F/Vet/Disability. Rocket Software Inc. is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Rocket Software Inc. is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status. Rocket is committed to providing reasonable accommodation to individuals with physical and mental disabilities.