Network Engineer

Company Introduction:

At Ardalyst, our mission is clear: we specialize in delivering cybersecurity and digital transformation solutions that empower our clients to safeguard their businesses and gain a competitive edge. Our passion drives us forward—Ardalyst embodies our commitment as ardent catalysts for industry innovation. By challenging norms, sharing best practices, and approaching challenges with fresh perspectives, the Ardalyst team educates public and private institutions on optimizing work forces, processes, and technologies to thrive in an evolving landscape.

We are seeking an experienced Network Engineer with expertise in network performance monitoring, packet visibility, and traffic analysis solutions, specifically leveraging NETSCOUT and Gigamon technologies. The ideal candidate will be responsible for designing, implementing, monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimizing network infrastructure while ensuring high availability, security, and performance.

Boots trapper:
You thrive on creating new initiatives rather than simply maintaining the status quo. You excel both independently and as part of a team, unafraid of failure and persistent in your pursuit of breakthroughs.

Innovator:
Once you've built something, you're adept at systematizing and refining it to drive continuous improvement and scalability.

Geek:
You're driven by a passion for details, constantly seeking new knowledge, and eager to share your expertise with others.

Speak Your Mind:
Collaboration is central to our ethos, where we embrace diverse perspectives to foster innovative thinking. Ardalysts (that’s what we call ourselves) are empowered to contribute and solve challenges together.

Focus on Your Strengths:
We prioritize understanding the unique strengths and weaknesses of each team member so you can excel at what you do best.

Grow with Us:
Ardalysts value the encouragement to take calculated risks, drive progress, and develop skills—an aspect they cherish about working at Ardalyst, and one we're committed to maintaining.

• Design, deploy, and maintain network infrastructure including LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, and data center environments.
• Administer and support NETSCOUT nGeniusONE, Infini Stream appliances, TAPs, packet flow monitoring, and performance analytics platforms.
• Administer and support Gigamon visibility fabric solutions, TAPs, packet brokers, and traffic aggregation infrastructure.
• Monitor network health and performance, proactively identifying bottlenecks and implementing corrective actions.
• Analyze packet captures and network traffic to diagnose application, network, and infrastructure issues.
• Collaborate with cybersecurity teams to provide packet visibility and network telemetry for threat detection and incident response.
• Configure and maintain routing and switching technologies including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, and MPLS.
• Support network security technologies including firewalls, IDS/IPS, VPNs, and network access controls.
• Perform capacity planning, network optimization, and infrastructure upgrades.
• Develop and maintain network documentation, topology diagrams, operational procedures, and technical standards.
• Participate in incident management, root cause analysis, and problem resolution activities.
• Provide support for cloud connectivity solutions including Azure and AWS networking services.
• Work closely with application, server, and security teams.

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 5+ years of enterprise network engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with Net Scout nGeniusONE, Infini
  
  StreamNG, and packet analysis tools.
• Hands-on experience with Gigamon Visibility Fabric, GigaVUE appliances, TAP deployment, and packet broker administration.
• Experience with Cisco, Arista, Juniper, or other enterprise networking platforms.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, QoS, multicast, routing, and switching technologies.
• Experience troubleshooting network and application performance issues using packet-level analysis.
• Familiarity with network monitoring…