Network Virtualization Admin III - Hybrid Position

Location: Oklahoma City, OK

RESPONSIBILITIES
Network Maintenance:

• Focuses on all aspects of networking including engineering, design, deploying, operating, and scaling a high-performance virtual network that provides high availability and security.

• Establishes network virtualization environment by implementing system configuration, directing system/software installation and adhering to system standards.

• Knowledge of troubleshooting network virtualization performance issues.

• Knowledge of network virtualization best practices and industry standards.

• A talent for network automation and the ability to make decisions on what can be safely automated.

• Assists in defining network policies and procedures.

• Maximizes network performance by performing network monitoring and analysis, and performance tuning; troubleshooting network problems; escalating problems to vendor.

• Secures network by developing network access, monitoring, control, and evaluation; maintaining documentation.

• Upgrades network by conferring with vendors; developing, testing, evaluating, and installing enhancements.

• Meets financial requirements by submitting information for budgets; monitoring expenses.

• Updates job knowledge by participating in educational opportunities; reading professional publications; maintaining personal networks; participating in professional organizations.

• Protects organization's value by keeping information confidential.

• Accomplishes organization goals by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests; exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.

• Identify opportunities and recommend solutions for improving service efficiency and effectiveness.

• Improves network manageability and scalability

• Build, support and maintain support documents, standard operating procedures and policies related to the network, security systems, server and storage infrastructure and best practices.

Documentation:

• Documents specific duties, activities, problems solved and issues resolved

• Helps the team in the documentation of the network virtualization, applications and resources

• Performs training when applicable

• Miscellaneous:

• Attends meetings and serves on committees, as requested

• Regular attendance as required

• Ability to follow through with tasks, projects and troubleshooting with minor supervision

• Willingness to assist coworkers with improving their skills and abilities

• Strong technical aptitude, people skills and a desire to learn and implement industry best practices

• Performs additional duties and assignments as requested

• Provides direction and support regarding the network impact of business initiatives

• Assists business units in solving problems via network technologies

• Provides business units recommendations to optimize development from a networking perspective

• Maintains timely updates for projects and tasks in ticketing software

Education/Certification:

• Bachelor Degree

Experience:

• 4+ years of network administration

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

Education/Certification:

• NSX-T Certification VCP-NV strongly preferred

• VMware VCP-DCV strongly preferred

• Cisco CCDA

• Cisco CCNP

Experience:

• VMware NSX-T design

• VMware vSphere environments

• TCP/IP services and protocols

• BGP, OSPF and Static Routing

• NGINX Ingress Controller

• SDN Automation (Ansible, Tower, Terraform, Git)

• YAML

• Kubernetes

• Helm Charts

• Network Performance Tuning SNMP, NetFlow, IP SLA, iPERF

• Switching and routing technologies (L2-L3)

• Network and application delivery services (L4-L7)

• F5 LTM Configuration/Administration

• F5 LTM VS, Node, Pools, iRules

• Cisco IOS and NXOS

• Cisco Datacenter Technology vPC, FEX, UCS

• Cisco Routed Campus L3 Access configuration/maintenance

• ISE, 802.1x, TrustSec

• Cisco ACI

• Network Backup and Archive procedures

• Implementing and maintaining disaster recovery solutions

Skills/Abilities:

• Evaluate critical systems, prioritize workflow and determine solutions

• Ability to and implement network configurations with little supervision

• Good troubleshooting skills

• A degree of creativity and latitude is expected

• Familiar with a variety of network concepts, practices, and procedures

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills

• Interpret and apply laws, regulations and policies

• Provide technical assistance for computer problems

• Read and understand technical manuals

• Work for extended time at keyboard/terminal

• Maintain effective working relationships with supervisor and coworkers

• Work flexible hours, including weekends and evenings