IT Network (Data & Security) Engineer

Keysight Technologies is forging a new legacy with 80 years of innovation from our founding fathers – Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard, whose shoulders we stand upon today. We are the world's leading electronic measurement company, helping scientists and engineers address their toughest technical challenges with confidence through innovations in wireless, modular, and software solutions.

This job will be part of the Keysight IT Global Computing and Collaboration, Network Center of Excellence (COE) organization, which takes pride in providing reliable, high-performance, secure and cost-optimized IT networks at 120+ global sites. We are the backbone on which bits and bytes travel at amazing speeds to enable Keysight’s businesses growth and operations. If you are looking for challenges, growth, ability to develop broad IT skills knowledge and a desire to make a difference, then your search ends here.

Job Responsibilities:

- Global Network Operations:

  • Owns engaging, solutioning and supporting network infrastructure (Data, Security) locally and globally.
  • Troubleshoot complex network (LAN, WAN, DNS, etc) and firewall-related issues.
  • Proactively pinpoint and eliminate network performance bottlenecks impacting business workloads.
  • Steadily improve network uptime
  • Secure the network from malicious internal attacks
  • Provide technical leadership and expertise in escalations, P1-P3 incident response tickets.
  • Continuous improvements -  leads and participates in Problem Management, Post-mortems, root cause analysis and accelerate/advance the resolution of incidents impacting the Critical Production Environment & pro-longing escalations

- Global Network Solutions, Projects and Technology:

  • Contribute in exciting global projects – site build-outs, new acquisitions, new technology deployments, technology refreshes, security etc.
  • Pilot Keysight’s commercial network management and visibility solution.
  • Stabilize newly deployed cutting edge network solutions
  • Potentially assist with business engagement/stakeholder communications for new deployments or continuous improvement initiatives. Candidate needs to be comfortable with collaborating closely with business stakeholders.
  • Willingness to work flexible hours including weekend and holiday coverage for any operational or project needs

Job Qualifications

We’re looking for a diversely skilled, experienced network engineer with these qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Computer Science or Information Technology.
  • 3 years of hands-on network and security experience with minimally a Cisco CCNA or CompTIA Network+ Certification.
  • Other Industry certifications would be a plus – Cisco CCNP, MCSE, ITIL.

Required skills and knowledge:

  • Good knowledge and work experience in LAN/WAN/WLAN/SDWAN/Data network technologies and Telecom Providers.
  • Cisco Routing and Switching including EIGRPP, BGP, VRFs, etc.
  • Experience in Cisco, Nexus, Juniper, Viptela; including VDCs and VPCs.
  • Experience in Load Balancers (F5, A10), Riverbed WAN optimizer, Bluecat. Infoblox
  • Good understanding of IP/DNS, Security, QoS.
  • Experience with Palo Alto and Cisco Firewalls
  • Experience with real time Network monitoring and diagnostic tools including Riverbed Cascade, Wireshark, Solarwinds, etc.

Desired characteristics:

  • High attention to detail and skilled at problem analysis and troubleshooting.
  • Ability to meet deadlines and do well under pressure
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
  • Strong sense of urgency and track record in resolving issues effectively

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