Network Engineer III; Wifi

The Network Engineer-III is responsible for the planning, design, configuration, integration & installation of our growing local area network (LAN) and/or global wide area network (WAN). The Network Engineer-III will provide leadership in technical support and documentation to various departments and users with regard to the global infrastructure. The Network Engineer-III serves as a liaison to gather network requirements from internal customers, vendors, and other third‑party providers.

• Onsite in Seattle, WA
• Additional travel to satellite locations in Tacoma, WA, and Olympia, WA

• This role will focus on deploying and maintaining Wi‑Fi networks
• DESIGN:
  • Perform design requirements feasibility studies
  • Perform vendor recommendation/selection and coordination for hardware testing and installations
  • Examine theoretical and implemented designs for deficiencies and facilitate corrections
• BUILD:
  • Prepare maintenance plan documentation & change management
  • Examine maintenance plans for accuracy
  • Script maintenance implementations
  • Work in either a lead role or an assisting role during maintenance implementations
• IMPROVEMENTS:
  • Develop Standard Operating Procedures (SOP’s) & Method of Procedures (MOP’s)
  • Develop network standardization practices
  • Document informational content for specialized network designs to be used for training needs
  • Present and/or train on new network typologies, hardware, and technologies to internal teams
  • Lead Root Cause Analysis sessions to achieve better networking practices
  • Determine baseline requirements for our network needs
  • Provide code analysis on existing software, IOS testing, and software recommendations
  • Create network lab mockups for error testing
  • Automate repetitive Engineering tasks
• ADDITIONAL:
  • Responsible for Forescout management and maintenance (as secondary).
  • Manages the team’s ticket queue and responds on‑site to issues
  • Act as 3rd level escalations POC for design or other related problems
  • Initial deployment of new products and services
  • Monitor capacity and plan for bandwidth additions
  • Establish project priority based on business needs

• High School Diploma or regional equivalent required
• Bachelor’s Degree required, preferably in Computer Science or Network Engineering. At the manager’s discretion, additional relevant experience may substitute for the degree requirement
• Minimum 5-7 years of recent experience with network design and build‑out of LAN/WANs and/or large‑scale network retrofits and remediations
• Experience with network access control (NAC) and software‑defined networking technologies, including Forescout and Cisco Software‑Defined Access (SDA)
• Experience with enterprise wireless technologies, including Wi‑Fi design, deploying and maintaining Wi‑Fi networks, RF optimization, and troubleshooting
• Must have certifications: CCNA
• Preferred certifications: CCDA, CCNP, CCDP preferred, CCIE (R&S, SP, or DC) highly preferred (or equivalent experience), Python PCEP
• Advanced level experience working with most of the following technologies/applications: MPLS, BGP, LDP, QoS, IPv6, OSPF, vPC, STP, DWDM, EVPN, L2
  
  VPN, MPLS VPN, L3
  
  VPN, FHRP, VLAN, CDP, port‑channels, IS‑IS, MPLS Inter‑AS, VXLAN, DNS, ACL, RADb, Flowspec, RTBH, Git Hub, API’s, NFV, Hypervisors, virtual switching
• Multi‑vendor experience working with the following platforms:
  Cisco IOS, ASR 1k (IOS‑XE), ASR NCS (IOS‑XR), Nexus (NX‑OS), Arista (EOS), Junos
• Experience working in a service provider, datacenter/hosting environment, or large‑scale enterprise networks.
• Experience researching, evaluating, and recommending hardware and/or software solutions supporting large‑scale deployments and/or remediations against the LAN/WAN
• Experience working with 3rd party networking vendors, with an understanding of the service/hardware/software portfolios they provide
• Able to identify areas of process improvement and provide input and solution options to streamline work
• Excellent writing, documentation, and communication skills, possessing the ability to communicate well with technical and non‑technical peers.
• Customer service‑oriented attitude
• Experience with network service monitoring systems (Arbor, Zenoss, Syslog, Solar Winds,…