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Senior Network Engineer, Ascendent Syste

Company Ascendent Systems, Inc.
Wage Not specified
Location United States, California, Redwood City
Employment type Full Time
Education Bachelor
Year Experience 4 - 5 Years of Practical Experience
Travel Not Specified
Published on 8/28/2008
Description
Position: Senior Network Engineer, Ascendent SystemsLocation: Redwood City, CALength: Full Time Ascendent Systems is the premier provider of enterprise voice mobility solutions that provide single number reachability, real-time notification and conferencing, and voice continuity. These solutions allow users to automatically extend the identity and functionality of their business desk phone to any other device. Ascendent Systems is currently seeking a Senior Network Engineer at our HQ location.Job Description: The Senior Network Engineer performs work for the overall integration of the network including participation in planning, design, installation, maintenance, management, and coordination of wide area and local area networks, server infrastructure and network security. The person holding this position is a technical engineering contributor with good knowledge and experience in the area of local and wide area networking and network security implementation and administration. Will perform network and security procedures and recommend improvements for the network infrastructure and network security policy. Will work as part of a team and as a strong technical resource for other corporate objectives of Networks and Security.Essential Functions: *
  • Participates in planning, designing, installing and configuring local and wide area networks.*
  • Builds, configures and maintains network switches, routers, servers and various voice, data and security appliances.*
  • Is responsible for the daily monitoring of the network and security appliances.*
  • Develops and follows procedures to handle network and security fault events.*
  • Monitors and reports on network and system capacity utilization.*
  • Applies continuous improvement techniques to ensure the network and security infrastructure attains maximum performance, security and availability and provides reports regarding this topic to management.*
  • Is able to appropriately prioritize LAN/WAN faults, then diagnose and resolve problems in the shortest possible time all while under pressure from the various other impacted business groups.*
  • Must be able to communicate effectively with all parts of the organization while under pressure.*
  • Must ensure that the LAN/WAN environment remains secure and appropriate recovery and redundancy issues are addressed.*
  • Provides networking and security technical guidance to Engineering team, Support staff, and other staff groups as needed.*
  • Required to carry a cellular device and be on call outside of normal work hours.Qualifications:*
  • Ability to write technical reports and routine business correspondence.*
  • Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from managers, other staff members and other institutions network engineering and or technical departments.*
  • Good knowledge and expertise in local and wide area networking and communications including; all forms of networking media and SPT, PVST, IGMP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, RIP-II, MPLS, VoIP etc.*
  • Good knowledge and expertise of Cisco Systems networking hardware and software and network and security support systems; CCNP Certification preferred.*
  • Good knowledge and expertise of Microsoft infrastructure including Windows 2000/2003 server/domain, Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server; Microsoft Certified preferred. *
  • Good knowledge and expertise of IPsec and client virtual private networks, certificate authorities, one time password technologies, 802.1x, VMPS, Security Event Monitoring and other auditing, authentication and authorization mechanisms and systems.*
  • Good knowledge and expertise of network performance monitoring and investigative tools including packet sniffers such as Ethereal.*
  • Good knowledge and expertise of telecommunications protocols and concepts (PSTN, VOIP, H323, SIP, MGCP, etc.) a plus*
  • Good knowledge of wireless technologies (802.11, WiFi, GSM, CDMA, EDGE, etc.) a plus*
  • BA or BS in Computer Science or Engineering or equivalent*
  • Minimum of 6 years in Network Engineering, IT or related field Travel Required: YesTelecommute: Nodf-tc

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