Senior Network Engineer

We run a fiber backbone of over 20,000 route miles, plus data centres and network operations centres. Retail stores, field technicians and customer care all report into regional operations teams. Techs take their trucks home and drive straight to the first job of the day.

Poplardeck needs another Senior Network Engineer to design, run and troubleshoot the LAN, WAN and wireless networks across 14 sites. Our headquarters is in Berlin, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. This is a long-term contractor role, paid monthly in USD. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. We talk mostly in Slack and hop on quick calls when something needs discussing.

Job duties

• Manage Palo Alto, Fortinet or Cisco Firepower firewalls, including rules, NAT and VPN tunnels
• Design and troubleshoot routing with BGP, OSPF and EIGRP
• Maintain IPAM, VLAN and network documentation in NetBox or Visio
• Coordinate with carriers on circuit installs and outages
• Run packet captures in Wireshark to diagnose latency and drops
• Submit and follow change requests through the CAB process
• Monitor the network with SolarWinds NPM, PRTG or LogicMonitor

Skills and experience

• Available for after-hours maintenance and on-call rotation
• Comfortable on the CLI in Cisco IOS, NX-OS or Junos
• CCNA required, CCNP preferred

Bonus points

• Data centre fabrics (Cisco ACI, VXLAN EVPN)
• Voice networks and QoS for VoIP
• F5 BIG-IP load balancers

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Long-term engagement
• Annual rate review

Due to the number of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Duration: 6 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Poplardeck.