[Network-jobs] Principal Network Engineer - Waltham, MA

[Heller, Phillip]

Constant Contact's Network Engineering team is responsible for the design, deployment, and management of the network infrastructures that support our large production and QA environments.  To support our continued growth, we are seeking an intelligent, motivated, and creative Principle Network Engineer. Opportunity to work with WAN technologies, 10Gb Ethernet, dark fiber, Ciena, Juniper, Cisco, and F5 hardware.  Participate in industry forums such as NANOG, ARIN, and others.  This position will report to the Manager of Network Engineering.

Responsibilities include:
	• Contribute to the overall success of our growing customer base by supporting our enterprise network infrastructure.
	• Design and implement highly available network solutions across several locations.
	• Install, configure, and maintain Juniper, Cisco, Ciena, and F5 network devices across our multi-site, multi-10G backbone network.
	• Work with network engineering team members and other operations groups to lead and implement a variety of technical projects.
	• Perform network maintenance outside of business hours, following the company?s change management and operational procedures.
	• Provide 24x7 response to network outages during on-call periods.
	• Communicate, track, and resolve simple and/or complex SaaS issues in a timely fashion.
	• Manage various projects and professional services implementations with outside vendors.
Qualifications:
	• 7 or more years of network engineering experience, including experience at a rapidly growing organization.
	• Experience designing, implementing, and managing networks with Juniper and Cisco devices.
	• 2 or more years of Junos experience.
	• Expert level knowledge and experience with various routing protocols including BGP and OSPF.
	• Proven ability to pay close attention to detail and follow change management procedures.
	• Ability to work closely with others on technical and procedural topics.
	• Experience prioritizing and performing multiple tasks.
	• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
Also Desirable:
	• Experience building and managing optical and dark fiber networks.
	• Strong background in Unix or Linux.

This position is based in our office in Waltham, MA, and we strongly prefer local candidates.  This position does offer the flexibility to occasionally work remotely (on the order of 1 day per week), though the work generally requires the employee to be present at the office.

There is occasional travel required among our datacenter and network facilities in the Boston area (perhaps 2-5 trips / month), and occasional travel to satellite offices and/or conferences (1-3 trips / year).

If interested, feel free to forward your résumé or contact me with any questions.  We are only soliciting responses from interested candidates; employment agencies need not apply.

Regards,

 Phil Heller
 pheller at constantcontact.com