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We are conducting a search for our client, a top ten managed hosting provider, for a super smart CCIE or JNCIE certified (with lab) BGP Network Engineer. This position is telecommute (work from home), you may live anywhere in the United States.

What makes our client different than other companies?

∙     Quality of life: Engineers have more flexibility to work from home.

∙     Engineers work as a collaborative (remote) team with other super smart engineers sharing knowledge, experience, and design ideas to help each other learn new skills and grow.

∙     The opportunity to work with new technologies and multiple large-scale networks each with their own unique challenges, requirements, and business goals.

∙     Engineers can get back to what they love and what they do best – engineering!

∙     Company culture is extremely tech focused. All network engineers are CCIEs and/or JNCIEs including the CEO

BGP Network Engineer

Our client seeks a CCIE with deep BGP Network Engineer experience to join their team. This role will focus primarily on BGP route-path optimization, peering, and ISP performance management of a geographically distributed, Managed Hosting data center environments connected via 10-Gig, national backbone. With a primary focus on uptime and stability, this position requires a mature engineer focused on process, communication, documentation and change control to maximize customer uptime.

Desirable candidates will possess a strong background in Layer 2, Layer 3 and Layer 4 technologies, work well and communicate effectively with others, are self-starting, creative, and able to think through and own a project from start to finish. While maintaining client infrastructure, the candidate will also be expected to take total ownership of their customer networks: from architecture, design, and documentation through deployment and maintenance.

If you enjoy a small-company atmosphere where your input is valued and considered, and if you enjoy learning and having fun at the same time, then our client is the company for you.

Required Skills

• Experience managing the BGP policy for a national and/or international backbone

• Policy routing including the use of MEDS, Communities, Local-Pref, Weight, etc.

• A comprehensive and thorough understanding of BGP route optimization and path selection, including all 11 BGP selection criteria

• Managing setting up both public and private peering

• Experience with multi-homed ISPs actively balancing and optimizing at least four ISPs simultaneously.

• Full understanding of both confederations and route-reflectors

• Deep understanding of asymmetric routing troubleshooting techniques, tools, and methods.

Desired Skills

• HSRP, VRRP, and Spanning-tree including RSTP, RPVST+, MSTP

• Load balancing on A10 Networks, Citrix Netscaler, or F5 equipment

• Firewalling via Cisco access control lists, Juniper SRX, and/or Cisco ASA stateful firewalls

• Good Understanding of VPN technologies, configuration and troubleshooting

• 802.1q (VLAN tagging) and 802.3ad (link aggregation) knowledge required

• Understanding of 95th Percentile billing methodologies

• Linux user and limited system administration tasks

• DNS troubleshooting and limited configuration

• Traffic management via EBGP, multi-homing, and policy routing

• OSPF, BGP, static routing, and redistribution

• Experience and understanding of IPv6 configuration

• Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K and/or Fabric Extender strongly desired, including knowledge of VCP and VSS

• NX OS, vPC, Nexus 55xx + FEX

Key Experience

Strong troubleshooting skills and effective troubleshooting methods including

• layer 1 (e.g., copper cabling troubles / fiber signal strength)

• layer 2 (e.g., Spanning-tree, VLAN tagging, MAC address tracing, ARP issues)

• layer 3 (e.g., routing troubleshooting, EGP versus IGP redistribution, BGP attribute, prefix length issues, OSPF)

• layer 4 (e.g., load balancer and firewall troubleshooting; BGP session troubleshooting)

• layer 5 thru 7 (e.g., DNS issues; assisting with identifying application issues masquerading as network troubles)

Hardware Familiarity Desired

• Cisco Nexus 2K, 5K, and 7K

• Cisco Nexus Platform – 55xx, FEX

• Brocade/Foundry FLS648 and FCX648, FastIron/TurboIron, and XMR

• Juniper M-series routers

• Cisco 6509 and ASR routers/switches

• Server Load Balancers – A10 Networks, Citrix, F5

• Stateful Firewalls – Juniper SRX and Cisco ASA

• Juniper EX experience a plus, but not required

Best Practices and Work Ethic

• Ability to adhere to best practices including maintenance windows, extensive method of procedure (MOP) preparation for maintenances, and change control procedures

• 24 x 7 on-call rotation

• Ability to handle high-pressure situations

• Ability to time-slice between multiple networks and multiple customer requirements

• Ability to learn via available resources with a minimum of offsite training

• Documenting all network topology changes on a wiki and in Visio

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Willingness and ability to teach and train others

• Ability to provide specific, explicit instructions to remote staff in data centers

This is a remote (work from home) position, you may live anywhere in the U.S.