Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

About Wonders 

Wonders is a restaurant technology startup based in New York City. Built by former restaurant operators and technologists, we provide tools to help independent take-out restaurants reduce staffing headaches, increase revenue, and lower costs, all at once!

Wonders Mission: To provide a virtuous ecosystem of tools and services to restaurant operators to help them be more successful.

Wonders Core Values: Client Focus, People-centric, Relentless, Substance, Creative, Efficient, Simplicity

What the role is about

As a Network Engineer, you will work on all things related to the company network infrastructure, from on-prem and the cloud.  You will design, implement, and maintain a reliable, secure and efficient data communications network for our offices around the world.  You should be ready to contribute to improvements and design. The ideal candidate will be able to deploy, configure, maintain and monitor all active network and VoIP equipment in order to ensure smooth network operation.

Mission

To design, build, and maintain the company network to ensure it always stays up and running, can scale, and can handle the unexpected.

Successful Outcomes

• The network has a high agreed upon SLA uptime

• The network has proper redundancy in placed in case of failure

• The network must continue to meet the demands of business as it grows

• The network team, as a whole, knows how to properly handle and resolve network related incidents

Key Responsibilities

• Design, administer, maintain and support the availability, performance and security of the network systems that include, SDWAN (Aruba Silverpeak), Cloud Networking (AWS),  Routers (Ubiquiti Edge Routers), wireless networking(Unifi), Firewalls, Switches (Cisco), Load Balancers, VPN, QoS, MPLS, SBCs, PBX platforms (Asterisk), Circuits and servers evidencing strong knowledge of security, switching, and routing technologies

• Monitor network performance (availability, reliability, utilization, throughput, goodput, and latency) and test for weaknesses

• Monitor and identify capacity, quality, and performance issues for VoIP traffic to ensure continued, uninterrupted operation of telephony systems

• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, and hotfixes 

• Provide Level-2/3 support and troubleshooting to resolve issues reported by end user

• Perform analysis of maintenance failures, research trends, causes of failures, and recommend solutions to avert future failures

• Perform, and troubleshoot, on all voice services for all LAN and WAN hardware modules

• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

• Fully support, configure, maintain and upgrade in house networks and servers

• Define network policies and procedures

• Gather, compile, and maintain enterprise level VoIP network diagrams

• Research and make recommendations on server system administration

Qualifications

• 4+ years of proven hands-on experience in a network administrator role

• Hands on experience in networking, SDWAN, routing, switching, VoIP, wireless

• Hands on experience configuring Ubiquiti routers using CLI

• Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS, route redistribution, Spanning Tree)

• Knowledge on Cisco, ASA, Dynamic Routing, OSPF, Proxy Servers, Web Filtering and Networking (LAN/WAN, VLAN, DNS, MPLS)

• Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model

• Hands-on working knowledge of carrier-grade VoIP infrastructure, specifically: hosted PBXs platforms (Asterisk), endpoint devices (Polycom, Cisco SPA)

• Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools

• Excellent knowledge of best practices around management, control, and monitoring of server infrastructure

• Experience with firewalls, Internet VPN’s remote implementation, troubleshooting, and problem resolution

• Ability to setup and configure server hardware and deployments in on-prem data centers

• Ability to configure network infrastructure with IaC such as Terraform

• Maintain version control of configurations using Github

• Experience in network setup in cloud environments such as AWS (Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering)

• Able to understand and analyze WireShark results to solve complex SIP VoIP and IP internetworking challenges

• Great at organizing, prioritizing and multitasking

• Self-learner, independent, and have outstanding problem-solving skills

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• BS in Electronics and Communications Engineering or related field

• Must be able to work night shift and be flexible to work off hours and weekends if required

Network stack: Ubiquiti routers, Cisco switch, Cloud Networking (AWS), IaC (e.g. Terraform), OSPF, BGP, MPLS, IPLC, Metro Ethernet, IPSec, SDWAN, point to point VPN, OpenVPN, Wireguard, Bind9, Asterisk, DNS, 

Benefits:

• Competitive Compensation

• HMO upon hire, with up to 4 dependents   

• Remote first work setup

• Non-taxable allowance

• Annual merit review

• Group Life Insurance

• Govt mandated benefits