Network Specialist
US$120,000 / yr base salary
Posted 8 Jul 2025
Advertised as “Network Specialist - Core”
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- Expected experience
- 7+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
| Base salary | US$120,000 / yr |
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CertificationsCCNP, CCIE, PCNSA, CISSP
Field of studyComputer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
Position Overview:
Squarepoint is looking for a highly skilled and detail-oriented Network Core Specialist to architect, develop, optimize and secure scalable networks for Datacenter, Campus and Cloud infrastructures.
The Network Core Specialist is part of a team that work closely with stakeholders, software engineers and other infrastructure teams to design enterprise network solutions that align with Squarepoint business objectives in a timely manner and ensure high availability and performance.
- Design and implement scalable, highly available and deterministic network solutions in a multi-vendor enterprise environments (LAN, WAN, DC, Campus and Cloud).
- Translate business requirements into technical network architectures.
- Provide details and professional documentation, including diagrams.
- Project delivery/management collaborating with internal and external vendors.
- Select software and hardware components based on technical and business requirements.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies to improve network performance, resilience, and cost efficiency.
- Collaborate and provide guidance to Network reliability team to ensure proper implementation and support.
- Provide L3 escalation support to remediate performance and availability issues.
- Identify areas of improvements adopting automation and innovative solutions.
Required Qualifications:
- Degree in Network engineering, Computer Science, or related Information Technology discipline
- CCNP certification or higher (CCIE preferred)
- Minimum 7 years of experience in network engineering and project delivery, with a strong track record of successful project execution.
- Deep knowledge of routing and switching protocols
- Routing: OSPF, BGP, EVPN
- Multicast: PIM, RP, MSDP, IGMP, SSM
- Switching: STP, PC/vPC/MLAG, CDP/LLDP, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VLAN/VxLAN
- Monitoring: LANZ, Sflow, Kibana, Prometheus
- Security: AAA (Radius/TACACS), control planes, device hardening
- Experience with Arista / Cisco
- Datacenter/office network infrastructure buildout experienc
- Experience with network diagnostic and performance tools - netcat, tcptrace, wireshark, etc.
- Proficient with Cisco’s Unified Communication, Collaboration products and Voice technologies
- In depth knowledge in cybersecurity solutions: Palo Alto, Fortinet
- Experience with cloud-based solutions: AWS, GCP, Azure