Senior Network Engineer

Are you looking for a fantastic career at Essential Utilities? We have an outstanding opportunity for a Network Engineer III based in the Bryn Mawr, PA area! Are you a future leader that wants to take your career to the next level? Let’s talk!

The primary focus of the Network Engineer III is to provide leadership, planning, design, implementation, maintenance and support of Essential’s network infrastructure. This position will also oversee and approve network design and solutions recommended by other staff engineers.

The responsibilities include management of the following services: WAN/LAN network design/administration, virtualization, enterprise wireless, cloud architecture/design, SAN fiber, network load balancers, business continuity/disaster recovery and performance tuning/monitoring. The technologies supported include Cisco (ISE/Switches/Routers), Palo Alto (Firewalls and Panorama), Nexus, Avaya, Netmotion and F5.

WHAT YOU'LL LOVE:

The opportunity to lead and collaborate with IT engineers to design and build technology solutions and architecture to support technical and business project portfolio. Your solution led, can-do approach will be empowered to add value from day one and affect changes which will impact the entire business! Serving as the subject matter expert on key network technology trends you’ll have the chance to develop innovative solutions for business problems and initiatives. Your participation in cross-functional teams is required to analyze business problems as well as recommend solutions or enhancements to current procedures or processes.

QUALIFICATIONS:

- A 4-year degree in Information Technology / Computer Science field - 10+ years’ experience in network engineering

- CCNA or other certifications (CCDP/CCNP/CCDI/CCIE) preferred

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

- VPC, FEX and Palo Alto/Panorama. , EtherChannel, Switch Stacking, QoS, Network design and standards, VRF-Lite, VDC, Fabric-Path, Enterprise wireless – 802.11g/n/ac, VLAN’s, port trunking, VXLANzoning, etc.), Deep understanding of the following: BGP, OSPF, FHRP’s, SAN networking (NPIV,

- Expert level in Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking concepts with hands on experience.

- Proficient in VPN technologies utilizing IPSEC and SSL.

- Excellent problem solving and organizational skills.

WORKING CONDITIONS/PHYSICAL DEMANDS:

Perform sedentary work- exerting up to 20 pounds of force occasionally, and/or a negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time.