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Senior Network Engineer

Company: Neustar, Inc.
Location: Sterling, VA
Posted on: June 26, 2016

Job Description:

Neustar, Inc. seeks a Senior Network Engineer (Sterling, VA)

Duties: Design, configure, install, and maintain network connectivity

within and between multiple data centers and co-locations across the

company’s global presence. Install, configure and maintain routers,

switches, load balancers, servers, and other network devices. Identify and

diagnose network problems to resolution while minimizing downtime and

customer impact. Maximize network performance by monitoring performance;

troubleshooting network problems and outages; scheduling upgrades; and

collaborating with network architects on network optimization. Lead and

participate in hardware and software evaluations, contribute to the ongoing

maintenance and evolution of the network infrastructure, and perform

hardware/software analysis to provide comparative data of performance

characteristics and suitability within the existing and future network

environment. Develop scripts and tools to automate and interface with

vendor platforms to monitor and automate network functions. Prepare trade-

off studies and evaluations for vendor equipment. Generate network

monitoring and performance reports for utilization studies. Recommend

network design changes and enhancements for improved performance,

availability and security. Interact with users to define system

requirements and/or necessary modifications. Maintain comprehensive

documentation regarding network configuration, operating procedures, and

service records relating to network hardware and software. Produce

procedures and configuration guides for use by Network Engineering &

Operations team. Configure, implement, and maintain DNS infrastructure.

Implement new service enhancements within the production network.

Configure, implement, and maintain DMVPN.

Education and Experience:

Master’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Computer Science, Electrical

Engineering, Information Systems, or related field and three (3) years of

experience designing, implementing, optimizing, and supporting scalable IP

networks, OR, alternatively, a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in

Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Information Systems or related

field and five (5) years of experience as indicated above.

Special Requirements:

Also requires demonstrated expertise (DE): configuring and implementing

routers, switches, load balancers, cloud connectivity, and DNS servers; DE

optimizing and designing networks using routing protocols OSPF and BGP, and

DMVPN; DE troubleshooting network related issues using various tools,

including Sniffer, Tcpdump, and Wireshark to analyze network related

problems; DE automating functions, deployments, and operational procedures

using 3rd party tools and industry standard languages including Python and

Perl; DE utilizing Cacti, Distributed Sniffer, Rancid, Cisco, Infoblox, and

Juniper to troubleshoot and automate network infrastructure; DE providing

cloud connectivity between cloud providers, including AWS and RackSpace and

internal networks; DE designing, configuring and maintaining enterprise

wide DMVPN connectivity; and DE coordinating network and security teams to

protect networks against DDoS attacks.

For the position listed above, interested candidates may apply online at

www.neustarlife.biz under job title Senior Network Engineer code THL001.

Keywords: Neustar, Inc., Sterling , Senior Network Engineer, Computer , Sterling, VA, Virginia


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