About our Company:
Based in Denver, Colorado, Cologix is North America's leading network-neutral interconnection and hyperscale edge data center company. Our platform gives customers access to 45+ digital edge and ScalelogixSM hyperscale edge data centers in 12 markets across the United States and Canada along with a carrier-dense ecosystem of 710+ networks, 360+ cloud providers, 30+ onramps and seven Internet exchanges. We provide our nearly 2,000 customers with direct access to our local operations teams, resulting in strong partnerships enabled by exceptional operational support and unparalleled customer service. Backed by one of the largest North American infrastructure funds, Cologix's experienced leadership team, certified staff and commitment to ESG initiatives help form a culture that values our people, our environment and our clients.
About the Position:
As a Senior Network Engineer with Cologix you will be responsible for assisting in the engineering, design, and maintenance of a large datacenter network that is heavily focused on Juniper products.
What you do daily:
- Evaluate and maintain traffic flows across transit and backbone links
- Tier III support for network related problems
- Troubleshooting of backbone network
- Evaluate new technologies as needed
- Responding to trouble tickets and customer calls that are escalated
- Hardware installations of network infrastructure
- Turn up of high touch customer deployments
What makes you a good fit: (Qualifications)
- Minimum 4-8 years’ experience as network engineer, with a heavy focus on Juniper products
- Excellent oral and written communications skills and a strong customer service mentality
- Strong analytical and effective problem solving skills.
- Manage assigned tasks and projects with little supervision.
- Quick learner who can adapt to changing requirements
- Proven experience working in a team-based environment
- Self-starter who possesses good time management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively verbally and in writing
- Diplomatic, positive approach to interacting with employees
- Must be punctual, reliable, flexible and willing to work additional hours when necessary to meet the demands of the department
Strong Understanding of the following technologies and platforms:
Required:
- Routers and switches: Juniper (primary), Cisco, Brocade
- Firewalls: Juniper SRX (primary) Cisco ASA, and Sophos
- Load balancers -Unix platforms
- MPLS/EVPN/VXLAN/OTV/L3VPN
- Core routing experience
- Strong understanding of routing protocols: eBGP, iBGP, ISIS, OSPF, and EIGRP
- Strong Layer2/Layer3 background
- Windows, Linux, and MAC Operating Systems
- Enterprise Server Configuration (Dell, HP, Supermicro)
- VPN Configuration
- Private Cloud Configuration and Installation
- VMware Essentials
- Alarm Monitoring
- Cyber SecurityVPN Configuration
- Private Cloud Configuration and Installation (vCloud Director)
- VMware Essentials
- Physical Racking and Cabling of Enterprise Devices
- Alarm Monitoring
- Ticketing System Use
Preferred:
- Optical Engineering
- Virtualization: VMWare, Openstack, KVM, Puppet, Chef
- Scripting: Python, Perl, PHP, and shell preferred
Preferred Qualifications:
- JNCIA – Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
- JNCIS - Juniper Networks Certified Internet Specialist
- JNCIP - Juniper Network Certified Internet Professional
- CCNA – Cisco Certified Network Associate
- CCNP – Cisco Certified Network Professional
***Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or transfer sponsorship of an employment visa at this time, including CPT/OPT.***
Benefits:
We offer a competitive benefit package for full-time employees that includes:
- Medical, dental and vision insurance
- Flexible spending account options
- Non-accrued PTO
- Company paid holidays
- 401k Retirement Plan
- Short- and Long-Term Disability
Individual compensation will be commensurate with the candidate's experience. This position will also be eligible for an annual bonus.
Salary Range
$120,000—$140,000 USD
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employee may perform other related duties as assigned to meet the ongoing needs of the organization.
Cologix is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. If you need assistance in applying for any of our open positions, please contact us at [email protected] or call 720-940-2551.
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- Understanding and following Cologix' information security, cybersecurity and privacy policies, procedures, and standards.
- Ensuring conformance to all information security, cybersecurity and privacy policies, procedures, and standards.
- Remaining vigilant and reporting any suspicious activity or possible vulnerabilities, weaknesses, threats, or breaches in Cologix information security to company information security and privacy officers.
- Actively participating in Cologix’ efforts to maintain and improve information security
Top Skills
What We Do
Cologix is reinventing the edge—building the data centers of tomorrow by integrating hyperscale edge capacity with robust interconnection. Our dedicated, experienced local teams foster industry-leading service, supporting you through every aspect of your digital infrastructure journey.
One connection to our ecosystem empowers your digital transformation, connecting you to the solutions and partners you need.
For a tour of one of our data centers in Ashburn, Columbus, Dallas, Jacksonville, Lakeland, Minneapolis, Montreal, New Jersey, Silicon Valley, Toronto or Vancouver visit www.cologix.com/contact/schedule-a-data-center-tour/ or email [email protected].
