Cision

Responsibilities:

• Design, configure, administer, monitor and troubleshoot complex enterprise network environment for communications and solution improvements within the Company's high-traffic, business-critical Internet production environment. 
• Develop and implement plans for infrastructure upgrades, modeling, analysis, and planning.
• Analyze, design, test, and evaluate network systems including local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (SD-WAN), Cloud, Data Centers, and other data communications systems. 
• Design, manage, and maintain office wired and wireless networks.
• Work with complex network and storage environments including SAN, clustering, load balancing, multi-site VPNs, network IDS, and firewalls.
• Monitor network performance and provide security measures, troubleshooting and maintenance, as needed. 
• Acquire, maintain and report on data related to network performance management, capacity planning and utilization trend analysis.
• Provide after-hours support for systems and applications.
• Collaborate with other functional IT areas to ensure that IT best practices, policies, and procedures are adhered to. Provide technical support for staff issues.
• 7+ years of experience in setup, configuration and maintenance of networking infrastructure including Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPN technologies, SD-WAN, and other WAN administration.

Experience

• 7+ years of experience with configuring and supporting IP networks.
• 5+ years of experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and multi-region Amazon Web Services (AWS) networking configurations
• 3+ years of experience in managing Meraki wireless networks and equipment in office environments.
• Strong fundamental knowledge of networks, ports, protocols, and infrastructure setup
• Enterprise-Level: Larger than 1,000 PCs and 500 Servers (multi-platform) are a definite plus
• Solid understanding of Microsoft Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, etc. in a large multi-site environment.
• In-depth knowledge of IT standards, concepts, best practices, and procedures - relies on knowledge, experience and judgment to plan and accomplish goals.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills for purposes of communicating with team members as well as other departments.
• Ability to take initiative & manage multiple detailed tasks in a fast-paced and ever-changing environment.
• Organizational, and project management abilities, strong analytical and problem-solving skills

Education Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree: CIS Computer Information Systems; Information Technology, Computer Science or similar.
• CCNP Certification or similar
• Cisco switches, routers, firewalls, VPN technologies, SD-WAN, WAN administration
• Cisco SAN experience
• OS Platforms: Windows / Linux
• Hardware Platforms: Cisco UCS, Cisco Meraki, EMC storage

• Designing, implementing, testing, and maintaining production-quality cloud storage solutions within Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, and Microsoft Azure
• Provision and manage storage within Virtual (VMWare, Hyper-V, etc), Windows, and Linux environments
• Ensure the availability, reliability, and security of storage platforms and related management systems
• Monitor and report on SAN operational health and performance
• Familiarity with Fibre Channel, iSCSI, CIFS, and NFS protocols and management
• Plan and execute SAN zoning configuration changes on Brocade and Cisco MDS technologies
• Plan and execute storage hardware, software, and firmware updates/upgrades
• Troubleshooting any storage-related problems or outages
• Install and configure new storage devices
• Perform capacity analysis/capacity planning, and recommend storage environment improvements
• Create documentation around storage management tasks and procedures
• Cross-train other staff on storage processes and best practices
• Perform capacity analysis on vSphere environments, and recommend changes and enhancements to meet demand
• Perform day-to-day management tasks in vCenter, including vMotion, storage migrations, and P2V
• Knowledge of, and experience implementing VMWare best practices
• Experience supporting a variety of platforms, including at least some of the following: DellEMC Unity, VMAX/PowerMax (this is an important one), Isilon, DataDomain, NetApp
• Supporting and operating platforms with the core principle of “automate everything” at the center of your work