Currently Hiring | Network Engineer
IP Services, Eugene’s premier data center and managed services provider, is looking for a full time Network Engineer in the Eugene area.
Eugene is a great place to call home just 90m south of Portland, with a great cost of living, an hour from the coast, and minutes from the pristine outdoors. Many IT people from Portland, Seattle, and the Bay Area have found Eugene to be the ideal balance of work and play.
At IP Services, we provide managed IT services to our clients, built on proven methodologies and best practices. We focus on doing that as awesomely as possible. We are a highly collaborative, team-oriented workplace. We’re nimble, technology forward, and process focused. We literally wrote the book on ITIL and Visible Ops: https://itpi.org/the-visible-ops-book-series/visible-ops-handbook-review/
IP Services is a managed services provider specializing in managing business-critical applications with high-availability and/or audit compliance requirements.
Position Overview:
The requirements for this position include providing technical support, architecture, system engineering, system administration and operations management of client LAN/WAN networks as well as IP Services’ internal data center network. The ideal candidate will have 5 or more years of experience designing, implementing, and administering high-availability IP networks.
The Network Engineer will also provide technical leadership and mentoring for less experienced technical personnel including entry level administrators and technicians.
The candidate’s technical knowledge and experience will be evaluated against the following list of position requirements.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of advanced network technologies.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of the TCP/IP protocol stack including IPv4
- Prior experience managing production IP networks.
- Prior experience planning for and provisioning production IP networks
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge of dynamic routing protocols, including OSPF and BGP
- Working knowledge of highly available routing solutions involving the use of HSRP and VRRP
- Prior experience configuring Cisco and Juniper Layer 3 switch/routers
- Demonstrated advanced knowledge of switched networks, including spanning tree technologies such as STP, RSTP, MSTP, and PVST
- Prior experience configuring Cisco and Juniper Layer 2 switches
- Prior experience configuring load balancers, packet shapers, WAN accelerators.
- Demonstrated working knowledge of designing, implementing and managing network and host-based information security solutions, including firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and intrusion prevention systems
- Prior experience configuring Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet and other firewalls, IDS, IPS
- Demonstrated working knowledge of PCI, HIPAA, SOX standards, data privacy practices and laws
- A high aptitude for learning new technologies and applying theoretical knowledge to solve real-world problems and capture real world opportunities
- Excellent oral and written communication skills. Ability to effectively influence and communicate cross-functionally with all levels of company management
Relevant Certifications:
- CCNP
- CCDP
- CCIP
- CCSP
- CCIE
- JNCIS
- JNCIP
- JNCIE
Additional Desirable Experience
- Network Security technologies including host and network-based firewalls and IDS/IPS systems, and VPN management
- Unix/Linux based servers, Windows Servers, networked applications, databases, and data storage/retrieval systems
- Nutanix, VMWare, KVM, and other server and desktop virtualization technologies
- SANs, NAS, tape systems, and other data storage technologies, including backup software and deduplication technologies.
- IT management technologies such as ITSM, remote monitoring, change management, change detection, reporting, and configuration management systems.
Does this describe you? (Personal Attributes)
- You have proven technical talents including five or more years of recent work experience providing highly available networks to business customers.
- You exhibit strong leadership skills with high ethical standards.
- You thrive in an environment where you are challenged to multitask in order to meet multiple goals with varying time frames.
- You have a passion for technology and for best-practices driven IT management processes.
- You willingly take ownership for results when assigned a task, goal, or objective.
- You have demonstrated ability to work in a fast-paced work environment.
- You are looking for the opportunity to grow with a team of extraordinary, like-minded professionals.
- You are committed to continuous process improvement
Additional Requirements (for all positions)
- Available to work full time
- Ability to be on-call on a rotating basis
- Willing to work weekends and/or evenings
- High-speed (broadband) internet access from home
- Must speak fluent English
- Able to pass background check
- Able to pass drug test