Octal Philippines Inc. is a leading IT solutions company seeking a skilled and experienced individual to join our partner team as a Network Engineer. As a Network Engineer, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the company's network infrastructure. This includes configuring, troubleshooting, and optimizing network devices and technologies to ensure the smooth and secure operation of the network. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with strong technical knowledge and a passion for network engineering within the IT industry.
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and support network infrastructure, including switches, routers, firewalls, wireless access points, and VPN appliances
- Configure and troubleshoot network devices and technologies, including VLANs, routing protocols, and network security
- Implement and support Layer2 and Layer3 Switching platforms such as Cisco Nexus, Catalyst and Arista Networks
- Execute simple to moderately complex changes as explicitly directed by Project Engineer or Architect.
- Document network configurations, procedures, technical design plans, cost summaries, implementation plans, and Operations.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices in network engineering
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field
- At least 3 years of experience in the following:
- Network engineer / operations in a multi-site, multi-national company.
- Building and supporting LANs, MANs, WANs, VPNs, and remote access solutions in a variety of topologies in a multi-vendor environment
- Competency in at least three Products (WAN, LAN, WLAN/Wireless, Data Center, Security, Voice).
- Competency in at least one Technical Domain in each Product listed.
- Competency in multiple Tech Domains in at least one Product.
- Can troubleshoot across any part of the network; from end-to-end network.
- Competency in internally managed parts of the network.
- Full comprehension of the design of a given Tech Domain.
- Hands-on experience with Cisco IOS, NX-OS, IOS-XE, IOS-XR routers.
- Hands-on experience with Network segmentation and Endpoint security.
- Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) preferred (eg Fortinet, etc)
- Knowledge of Network Access Control and Zero Trust Network models
- Deep Understanding of various network protocols such as OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP, VRFs, MPLS, EVPN/VxLAN, QoS
- High level understanding of Datacenter Virtualization and virtualized workload mobility
- Advanced knowledge of Multicast
- Knowledge of F5 Load Balancers (physical and virtual)
- An understanding of Network monitoring, analysis, and management with tools such as DNA Center/Assurance/Spaces, Cisco Prime, Solarwinds, Arista Cloudvision, and/or other Network monitoring tools.
- Cisco Certified Network Associated (CCNA) required
- Other preferences:
- Public and Private cloud knowledge
- Python / Ansible and any relevant hands-on Network automation experience
- Project management skills
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and/or Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
- Media/Entertainment/Video Distribution/Broadcast/Finance/Banking industry experience, but not required.
Allowance, Health & Life Insurance, & others
