Title:  Systems Engineer - Level 3 - Networking

Job Description

Cintas is currently looking for a Systems Engineer-Level 3-Networking for the Enterprise Services team within IT.  The Systems Engineer Level 3 is responsible for:   researching advanced technology trends in area(s) of expertise; identifying emerging trends and initiating research projects for team members; designing innovative solutions using new technologies; recommending short-term alternatives when appropriate; creating prototypes and leading initial development and testing through to production; defining enterprise-wide scoped SLAs to ensure requirements are met or exceeded; escalating problems as required based on SLAs; developing client satisfaction and capacity planning metrics; coordinating assessment of emerging technologies typically as the lead subject matter expert; evaluating and recommending new projects or tools for the organization; overseeing cost benefit analysis and presenting options to management teams; assisting in the resolution of support issues escalated by senior operations or development personnel; providing technical expertise across business functions; articulating relationship between business and the data and technology that support the business; identifying opportunities to improve business processes via new technologies; making recommendations and influencing long-term technology strategy and planning for multiple business units; assisting in development of RFPs and responses to new business opportunities; acting as subject matter expert to various project teams; determining dependencies and prerequisites; creating CRFs for assigned tasks and ensuring CRFs are approved in accordance with project timeline; and defining production readiness and transition acceptance criteria and ensuring criteria are completed before new system implementation.

Skills/Qualifications

Required:

• High school diploma/GED required; Bachelor's degree in IT discipline, preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Information Technology
• Minimum 5 years of experience with design, implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting enterprise level WAN/LAN technology including Internet Edge routers, campus switching (core, distribution, and access), and data center switching; experience with Cisco ASR and ISR routers, Cisco Catalyst switches, and Nexus switches; experience with DCNM/NDFC, VXLAN, and FabricPath preferred
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting WAN protocols and technologies including BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, DMVPN, VRF, and GRE/IPSec tunnels; experience with ISIS, Multicast, preferred
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting LAN protocols and technologies including VLAN, Spanning-tree, VTP, 802.1Q, HSRP, GLBP, VPC, and EtherChannel
• Minimum 5 years of experience with management, configuration, and troubleshooting of an enterprise level wireless environment using centralized command and control or wireless controllers; experience with Cisco WLCs (9800, 5520, and 5508) and APs, preferred
• Minimum 3 years of experience with management, configuration, and troubleshooting of enterprise firewalls; experience with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense firewalls and Firepower Management Console, preferred

Preferred:

• Experience with management, configuration, and troubleshooting of: Cisco ISE with 802.1x implementation, F5 environment running LTM, GTM, ASM and BigIQ
• Experience with applications Cisco Prime/DNAC, Chrionicel/Splunk, SolarWinds, Infoblox, Wireshark, CradlePoint ECM, Cloudflare
• Working knowledge of policy-based routing, CoS/QoS, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS+, SNMP, NTP, and IPv6
• CCNP or equivalent competency
• Experience with configuring and troubleshooting: Viptela SDWAN, Cisco Umbrella, networking components of GCP and Azure