Network Engineer, Principal

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Job description

Your Role

The Data Center and Infrastructure team is responsible for the design, engineering, administration, and support of corporate WAN, LAN and network infrastructure. The Network Engineer, Principal will report to the Director, Technical Operations. In this role you will provide network architecture and design, implement network infrastructure, and provide 3rd level support to enhance the corporate network and its capabilities.

Your Work

In this role, you will:

Be the SME in network hardware, software, and technologies

Create a robust, supportable network infrastructure to better the users' experience

Carry out operational, strategic activities, and change management of all impact and risk levels

Develop and maintain technology roadmaps

Engage in Incident Response, Audit, and Disaster Recovery practices

Define, publish, and maintain network infrastructure standards, and operational documentation

Lead proof-of-concept and prototyping efforts in both an infrastructure design and engineering capacity including collecting, analyzing, and documenting results

Socialize and promote Network technology offerings

Communicate with stakeholders regarding network technology planning, design, requirements, and development activities

Perform periodic and emergency system maintenance, minimizing business impact to the greatest extent possible, as well as troubleshoot and resolve hardware, software, or other related issues

Influence, review and approve support contracts

Oversee third-party vendors' performance

Your Knowledge and Experience

Requires a college degree or equivalent experience and minimum 10 years of prior relevant experience

Prefers a minimum of 7 years of experience in architecting, designing, and implementing network infrastructure

Prefers a minimum of 7 years of experience with routers and switches, firewalls, WAN optimizers, Load Balancers, MPLS circuits, VPN

Previously worked utilizing the Agile methodology

Implementation of IDS/IDP/CTI a plus

Strong communication and presentation skills to all levels of IT management and stakeholders

Pay Range

The pay range for this role is: $ (phone number removed) to $ (phone number removed) for California.

Note

Please note that this range represents the pay range for this and many other positions at Blue Shield that fall into this pay grade. Blue Shield salaries are based on a variety of factors, including the candidate's experience, location (California, Bay area, or outside California), and current employee salaries for similar roles.

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