Principal, Network Engineer

Location: Wayzata

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Job Purpose and Impact      The Prinicpal Network Engineer job leads designing, implementing and maintaining network infrastructure to provide reliable and secure communication across the organization. As a recognized subject matter authority in network engineering, this job reviews and advises the network devices configuration, maintenance and upgrades and network performance monitoring, troubleshoots highly complex issues, and leads system optimization and automation to improve efficiency and scalability.

This job influences and leads adopting innovative technologies and best in class industry standards to sustain a cutting edge network environment.

Internal Title is:
Advisor, Network Engineering
Key Accountabilities
NETWORK SOLUTIONS:
Leads designing and implementing network solutions in line with organizational needs, including creating network diagrams and blueprints, and ensures the network infrastructure supports business objectives.
NETWORK DESIGN & ARCHITECTURE:
Leads and advises designing and architecting highly complex network systems and software defined networking, ensuring scalability, security and efficiency.
TROUBLESHOOTING & DIAGNOSTICS:
Performs highly complex troubleshooting and diagnostics to resolve network issues, ensuring minimal downtime and network reliability.
NETWORK MAINTENANCE:
Advises on maintaining and updating network systems, including applying patches, service packs and security configurations.
PERFORMANCE MONITORING & OPTIMIZATION:
Monitors network performance and advises on maintaining system availability and reliability, recommends continuous improvement initiatives and leads necessary adjustments.
SECURITY MANAGEMENT:
Leads and mentors implementing and maintaining robust network security measures to protect against threats and ensure data integrity.
DISASTER RECOVERY PLANNING:
Leads and advises on developing and implementing disaster recovery plans to ensure business continuity in case of network failures.
NETWORK AUTOMATION:
Leads developing and implementing automation and tools to streamline network operations, including configuration management, device provisioning and software updates.
INNOVATION & TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION:
Stays current with emerging technologies and industry trends, influences and leads innovation and modernization within the network infrastructure.
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 10 years or more of relevant experience.
6+ years experience in the field of Networking (Routing, Switching and SD WAN) having good understanding of Software Defined Networks. The person should have experience on Versa & Cisco products with ability to design, implement and troubleshooting skills.

Preferred:
10 years of experience in network engineering in a large scale, distributed IT team
Around 5 years of experience in the design and implementation of wireless technologies
Expert level knowledge on WAN technologies and protocols, not limited to BGP, OSPF, QoS, CoS, ACLs, NAT/CGNAT, MPLS, VPNs & IPSec.
Experience across various areas of network, including switching, routing, software and traditional WAN, firewall, load-balancing, networking protocols, DNS, DHCP, network observability.
At least 8 years’ experience in maintaining and managing networks running OSPF and BGP routing protocols with QoS implementations. CCIE SP or Enterprise certification is preferred.
Ability to develop low-level design (LLD) for proposed network architecture.
Knowledge of automation and scripting of network…