Cisco Networking Site Reliability Engineer 

United States, Georgia, Atlanta 

895654870

As a
Site Reliability Engineeron this team, you will play a role in ensuring a reliable, efficiently designed and provisioned network that delivers the performance and quality of service consistent with our customers’ and corporate objectives. Specific responsibilities include:

• Configuration of network elements in preparation for new deployments or service upgrades
• Documentation to support audits, MOP definition, and knowledge transfer.
• Vulnerability remediation and hardware lifecycle replacement
• Alerting and Monitoring Tool Design/Administration (i.e. SolarWinds, ThousandEyes, PRTG, etc)
• Develop automation for redundant tasks to optimize Operations and Implementations
• Aid in the definition and prediction pipelines for network health - availability and service-level objectives
• Proactively identify network trends and performance issues
• Drive operational efficiency by continually evaluating, improving and automating processes, procedures and systems.

Minimum Requirements:

• 3+ years of experience working in a network environment supporting routing and switching functions
• 1+ years of professional software development experience automating system processes

Preferred Skills/Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field ORCCNA Certification and/or AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner certifications
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS preferred, but GCP and Azure also ok)
• Understanding of switches, routers, firewalls, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ISIS, BGP, OSPF, HSRP, LACP, MPLS, dual-stack (IPv4 & IPv6) IP addressing, and IP network design.
• Knowledge of Ethernet, fiber optics, 802.1Q VLANs, VRF (Virtual Routing and Forwarding), IPSEC (Internet Protocol Security), ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure), and VxLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN).
• Strong analysis and communication experience including customer critical issues and resolution
• Use of networking tools including packet analyzers such as Thousand Eyes and Solarwinds.
• Automation skills based in technologies such as Ansible, AWX Tower, Bash and/or Python.
• A bias towards action to identify the best approach

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