Meet The Team
We represent Hitachi Vantara to enterprise clients across industries, establishing business relationships to understand customer challenges so that we can deliver profitable business for Hitachi products, services, and solutions. We collaborate as a team and cross-functionally to ensure the success of our customers; success that is celebrated and shared. Our solutions bring value to every line of business, and we need people like you to build those deep relationships and to passionately articulate our value proposition.
Reporting to the Director – Global Network Services, this role will be key to developing, delivering, and supporting enterprise datacenter and network architecture solutions. The Hitachi Vantara Network team is rethinking everything with an emphasis on leveraging software defined solutions in the LAN, WAN, and Data Center, driving automation throughout the network service stack and increasing efficiency and reliability of delivered services.
** Candidates MUST reside in the Greater Denver area in order to support our data center **
What You Will Be Doing
- Engineer, design and deploy network services and solutions based on business, strategic, and technical requirements.
- Develop infrastructure roadmaps, conduct feasibility studies, and review proposals with peer IT groups.
- Deploy solutions starting with the proof of concept and continuing through full deployment and support transition to our EnggOps teams.
- Identify, recommend, and lead continuous network infrastructure improvement efforts.
- Drive innovation and automation across the network and enable other teams to do the same.
- Act as a coach to build the team and its members.
- Strive for quality and customer satisfaction in the projects assigned.
What You Bring To The Team
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering.
- Minimum 12+ years of industry experience as a Network Engineer working on LAN, WAN, Wireless, SD-WAN technologies and F5.
- Coaching and mentoring team members and should be involved in performance management discussions and appraisals.
- Industry certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, Palo Alto.
- Expert knowledge of networking (routing, VPNs, NACLs, Subnets, Firewalls)
- Demonstrable experience in designing, deploying, maintaining cloud deployments, AWS, Azure, GCP. Cloud certifications preferred.
- In-depth understanding of network protocols including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IPSEC, HSRP, VDC, 802.11, 802.1x, SNMP.
- Demonstrate an ability to craft and understand iRules.
- Experience with TCPDump, Wireshark and analyzing network traffic.
- Experience in custom SSL, ciphers, and LTM traffic performance optimization experience with supporting and maintaining wireless networks.
- Design of application aware networks leveraging solutions that include SD-WAN (Cisco Viptela), SDN/Data Center and SDN/LAN and the associated orchestration and control tools.
- Experience with deploying NFV and automating enterprise network tasks and services is a plus.
- Advanced level experience working with Cisco IOS& NXOS, routing/switching and Wi-Fi.
- Advanced level experience working with identity-based network authentication mechanisms (Cisco ISE, 802.1x). ForeScout experience is a plus.
- Familiarity with cloud connectivity models for Enterprise extension. Specifically, AWS, Azure.
- Familiarity and experience with firewalls, IDS/IPS, and network optimization/acceleration.
- Experience in capacity planning, QoS, and intelligent/optimal path selection methodologies
- Hands on experience using network simulation, automation, and scripting tools.
- Expertise with F5 LTM & GTM load-balancer configuration and APIs (TMSH and iRules).
- A firm understanding of networking concepts & protocols at all layers: TCP/IP, BGP, HTTP, SSL etc.
- Hands-on experience deploying & configuring F5 LB.
- Significant experience with supporting and maintaining F5 Big-IP load balancers to include set-up, maintenance, upgrades, and replacement of the latest generation of F5s.
- Extensive experience with Big-IP LTM and GTM modules in a large, shared environment.
- Knowledge and use of network monitoring tools such as HP OV, SolarWinds Orion, Panorama, Cisco Prime, Wireshark (or similar network packet capture tools).
- Hardware/Software Knowledge:
- Hardware: Cisco, Palo Alto Networks.
- Software: Cisco Viptela, IOS/NXOS, PAN-OS, SolarWinds, Live Action.
As required by the equal pay and transparency acts, the expected base salary for this position is:
- Tier Two Location (including Colorado, Seattle, and the rest of California): $125k – $145k
The expected pay is determined based on a variety of factors including, but not limited to, depth of experience in the practice area. Employees are eligible to participate in Hitachi Vantara’s bonus/variable/commission pay programs, where applicable, and are subject to the program’s conditions and restrictions.
Our Company
Hitachi Vantara is part of the Global Hitachi family. We balance innovation with an open, friendly culture and the backing of a long-established parent company, known for its ethical reputation. We guide customers from what’s now to what’s next by unlocking the value of their data and applications to solve their digital challenges, achieving outcomes that benefit both business and society.
Our people are our biggest asset, they drive our innovation advantage as we strive to offer a flexible and collaborative workplace where they can thrive. Diversity of thought is welcomed, and our employee base is represented by several active Employee Resource Group communities. We offer industry leading benefits packages (flexible working, generous pension, and private healthcare) and promote a creative and inclusive culture. If driving real change gives you a sense of pride and you are passionate about powering social good, we’d love to hear from you.
Our Values
We strive to create an inclusive environment for all and are open to considering home working, compressed/flexible hours, and flexible arrangements. Get in touch with us to explore how we might be able to accommodate your specific needs.
We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:
Wa – Harmony, Trust, Respect
Makoto – Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity
Kaitakusha-Seishin – Pioneering Spirit, Challenge