Network Engineer
14 West
In 2016 and 2017, 14 West was voted one of Baltimore’s Top Workplaces by The Baltimore Sun. Every day roughly 1200 people work as part of the organization. Set in Baltimore City’s historic and cultural hub called Mount Vernon, there is no shortage of opportunities to feed your imagination there. The neighborhood is also home to institutions such as the Walters Art Museum, the Peabody Library, and Baltimore School for the Arts. The Mount Vernon campus is also rich in diversity and offers access to an abundance of unique restaurants, retailers, galleries, and nightlife destination. 14 West Information Technology is looking for a Network Engineer that will provide strategic technology support for datacenter and corporate network technologies. This role will be focused on project implementation, sustaining engineering and operational support for the 14 West IT network infrastructure. This role is a technical role that will help define and implement operational requirements to meet the company’s goals for maintaining reliability and availability.
Responsibilities
- Partner with engineers in multiple teams responsible for maintaining network standards, security compliance, deployment and network operational support for 14West IT.
- Communicates with customers and peer organizations regarding maintenance needs, platform capabilities and service degradations.
- Strive to constantly improve the performance and security network environment
- Provide visibility and reporting around network security monitoring.
- Guide innovation and evolution of current network Infrastructure both on premise and global remote offices as the business needs change and evolve.
- Follow industry best practices as it relates to change management and agile project planning
- Implement and provide ongoing project level reporting through Agile project management methodologies including stand up meetings and sprint planning.
- Maintain 24/7 uptime and support status utilizing on call rotations and the automation of monitoring and alerting of the network infrastructure.
Qualifications
- 5+ years performing Network Architecture/Engineering roles for large mission-critical data center and corporate environments.
- 3+ years of experience with WAN, Data Circuits, Security and Public Cloud Connectivity
- 3+ years of experience with site to site and client VPN setup and administration
- 3+ years of experience with firewall administration in a multi-vendor environment
- Experience with security auditing of network devices
- Able to compose and manage OKR personal goals and ensure they align with team OKR goals
- Excellent interpersonal skills and a strong belief in a communicative and collaborative environment.
- Bachelor’s Degree in engineering or related technical field or equivalent work experience
- Well versed with modern routing architectures, including BGP, EIGRP, DWDM, VxLAN, GRE tunneling and VPN technologies.
- Familiarity network device inventory and management
- Experience with load balancers and WAF
- Regulatory compliance experience (PCI, NIST, HITRUST, etc)
- Medical, vision, and dental insurance plans
- Employer-subsidized parking
- 401(k) plan with employer matching
- Generous vacation time and paid holidays
- Fitness programs and discounts
- Casual dress code
Retirement & Stock Options Benefits
- 401K
Perks & Discounts
- Casual Dress
- Offsite Company Events
- Snacks Provided
- Special Discounts
Health & Wellness
- Dental Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Life Insurance
- Onsite Gym
- Short Term Disability
- Vision Insurance
PTO/Flexibility
- Paid Holidays
- Paid Sick Days
- PTO
Parental Benefits
- Parental Leave
Who are 14 West’s clients? The companies we work with are industry leaders in their own right. Some of the impressive names you’ll have the chance to support are The Oxford Club and Banyan Hill. What brings the teams on 14 West’s different silos together? All of our groups have a service-centric mindset, where the client and their needs are above all else. There’s a hunger within the company that drives us to deliver a product to your client that is going to work and last. What’s the professional development trajectory at 14 West? If you raise your hand and say you want to attend a specific conference or class, we will figure out a way to get you there. If you see room for growth within your role or a new initiative that you want to spearhead within the company, our management team will support you. Go-getters thrive at 14 West. What do you hope future 14 West employees bring to the table? People who are eager to find a company to grow with.
