Senior Network Engineer (Meraki & Aruba)
Dublin, VA - USA
Job Summary
We are seeking an experienced Network Architect / Senior Network Engineer with strong expertise in Cisco Meraki SD-WAN Aruba Switching & Wireless and Enterprise Network Infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing deploying troubleshooting and optimizing large-scale enterprise networks supporting 10000 nodes across multiple locations.
This role requires hands-on experience with network architecture enterprise routing and switching wireless technologies network security disaster recovery planning and infrastructure deployment activities including racking and stacking of network equipment.
- Design implement and support enterprise-wide network infrastructure solutions.
- Deploy and manage Cisco Meraki SD-WAN environments across multiple sites.
- Configure and support Aruba Switching and Aruba Wireless solutions.
- Perform physical installation racking stacking cabling and deployment of network equipment.
- Design scalable enterprise network architectures for large distributed environments.
- Provide Level 3 and Level 4 troubleshooting support for complex network issues.
- Lead network modernization migration refresh and transformation projects.
- Develop and execute Disaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity strategies.
- Perform capacity planning performance tuning and network optimization.
- Monitor network health and proactively identify potential issues.
- Implement network security controls and best practices.
- Work closely with data center cloud security and infrastructure teams.
- Maintain network documentation diagrams SOPs and operational procedures.
- Support change management incident management and root cause analysis activities.
- 8-15 years of Network Engineering/Network Architecture experience.
- Strong expertise in Cisco Meraki SD-WAN.
- Hands-on experience with Aruba Switching.
- Hands-on experience with Aruba Wireless technologies.
- Experience performing physical racking and stacking of network equipment.
- Strong Cisco networking background.
- Deep understanding of:
- Routing & Switching
- LAN/WAN
- SD-WAN
- Enterprise Wireless
- Network Security
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise networks (10000 nodes).
- Advanced troubleshooting experience (L3/L4).
- Network architecture and solution design experience.
- Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity planning.
- Capacity planning and performance optimization.
- Experience with network monitoring and infrastructure projects.
- CCNP Certification.
- CCIE Certification.
- Cisco Catalyst Switching.
- Cisco Nexus.
- Cisco ISE.
- Aruba ClearPass.
- BGP OSPF EIGRP.
- Palo Alto / Fortinet Firewalls.
- SolarWinds PRTG LogicMonitor ThousandEyes.
- Cloud networking (AWS/Azure).