Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer; Remote from

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Our next Senior Data Center Infrastructure Engineer will be a senior technical expert and design authority for the shared enterprise network services the team provides to 20 member organizations. You will architect, engineer, and lead the delivery of highly complex, mission-critical, multi-tenant services, including data center networking; connectivity to cloud providers (AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud); WAN transport; enterprise wireless;

F5 application delivery and load balancing; and network and application monitoring, performance management, and troubleshooting.

You will make design decisions that affect every member organization; defining how organizations and their applications are segmented, routed, and connected to the data centers, the WAN, the Internet, and the cloud; establishes network standards, reference designs, service levels, and configuration templates. You will mentor Infrastructure Engineers, review their technical work, and represent the network service to management, member organizations, cloud providers, carriers, vendors, and other government and private sector entities.

• Serving as a technical lead for enterprise network projects and for onboarding member organizations, applications, and sites to shared services. Typical work includes data center modernization and migration, new cloud connectivity, WAN and SD-WAN transport changes, wireless refreshes, F5 platform upgrades and application onboarding, and hardware lifecycle replacements.
• Acting as a design authority for the shared network services delivered to member organizations. Architecting scalable, resilient, secure, and cost-effective designs for: data center networks (Cisco ACI and/or Nexus EVPN-VXLAN fabrics, or equivalent); multi-tenant segmentation and routing using VRFs, MPLS/L3
  
  VPN, and BGP policy; WAN transport and SD-WAN across carrier circuits; the Internet edge; private connectivity to AWS (Direct Connect, Transit Gateway), Microsoft Azure (Express Route, Virtual WAN), and Google Cloud (Cloud Interconnect, Cloud Router); enterprise wireless; and F5 BIG-IP application delivery, including local and global load balancing, SSL/TLS offload, and application security policy.
• Defining high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and capacity strategies across data centers and cloud regions.
• Defining service levels and the monitoring and telemetry needed to measure them.
• Evaluating technologies, vendor platforms, cloud networking services, and software releases.
• Developing platform lifecycle and refresh plans.
• Designing security into the network in partnership with Enterprise Security, including tenant segmentation, firewall…