Systems Engineer

Systems Engineer

Location: Minneapolis, MN

Hybrid - Local is preferred but willing to look remote

Ideally, I would be looking for someone who could come onsite for a few days, during the first couple of weeks, for onboarding to my team, since we are very technical. then, maybe once a week, unless we need them for something more. But, this isn't a requirement. If we find the ideal candidate who is remote only, I would definitely consider them.

Job Description: Tell us about your department: Core network and automation. We maintain the data center networks, including routing, switching, load balancing, and DNS/DHCP systems. In addition, we automate common tasks in the data center network space

Project Description: This would be a supplemental engineer to help implement, troubleshoot, and automate common network tasks.

Position Summary/Job Description: Sr network engineer:

• Deploying, and maintaining high-performance and scalable network solutions for data centers, including core switches, edge routers, load balancers, and other related network equipment.

• Implement network automation solutions to streamline repetitive tasks such as configuration management, provisioning, and monitoring of data center networks.

• Work with automation tools and scripting languages (e.g., Python, Ansible) to develop solutions that simplify network management and increase operational efficiency.

• Assist in capacity planning, evaluating network performance, and identifying areas for improvement to scale the data center network.

• Stay current with emerging technologies in data center networking, including SDN, and network automation, and evaluate how they can be implemented to enhance network operations.

• Leads and effectively triages complex issues across systems in many environments, primarily in the data center. Takes the lead in root cause analysis.

• Active participant in planning activities and contributes to strategic planning.

• Assisting staff/principal engineers

Skills Overview

• What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• • Cisco routing/switching – 5+ years experience

• • Routing protocols (BGP, EIGRP, OSPF) – 5+ years experience

• • F5 load balancing – 3+ years experience

• • Infoblox DNS/DHCP – 3+ years experience

• • Automation (CI/CD pipelines, ansible, Terraform) – 3+ years experience