Senior Network Engineer @ Ameriprise Financial

Support complex network connectivity architectures by developing, designing, configuring, implementing, and maintaining detailed network engineering strategies/solutions that meet and/or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance, and reliability objectives for a variety of large projects, across multiple technologies, within technical area of expertise. Provide technical leadership to team/vendor/contractor resources, ensuring viability of designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into the production environment and maintained for ongoing BAU activities.

Responsibilities:

• Independently and team environment perform Medium/highly complex assignments.
• Lead proper execution of network changes updates in accordance with corporate security policies to meet business requirements.
• Responsible for network performance monitoring in addition to being able to lead troubleshooting complex network-related issues in a logical manner.
• Research, recommend, and establish innovative solutions supporting service availability targets with proper capacity planning that scale with the business growth.
• Identify monitoring gaps and work with product owners to develop alerting targeting a proactive approach to Incident prevention.
• Collaborates with all Information Technology (IT) disciplines.
• Creates, maintains, and updates documentation with most relevant information.
• Escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.
• Perform other special project and duties as assigned.
• Perform problem diagnosis, initiate problem resolution, and provide ongoing life-cycle support for network deployments and upgrades.
• Collaborate with team members to ensure project scoping activities are aligned with architectural objectives.
• Participate and provide input into the continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to ensure optimal performance and availability of technologies.
• Continuously develop specialized knowledge and technical subject matter expertise by remaining apprised of industry trends, the direction of emerging technologies, and their potential value to the business.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor s degree in computer science or related field; or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 4-7 years of relevant networking experience required.
• Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
• Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
• Strong thought leadership abilities and a highly innovative problem solver.
• Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network staff.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Working knowledge of Cisco Platforms: Routing and Switching (ISR/ASR/Nexus/Catalyst), wireless, ACI, Meraki, SDWAN, ISE
• Working knowledge in security devices Firewalls - Palo Alto, Cisco, Checkpoint F5 - Big IP, Infoblox - DNS, DHCP, NTP
• Cloud Networking - AWS, Azure
• Network monitoring, NetFlow, capacity management
• Packet Broker - Gigamon
• Packet capture and analysis - Gigastor, Wireshark
• Automation scripting

Ameriprise India LLP has been providing client based financial solutions to help clients plan and achieve their financial objectives for 125 years. We are a U. S. based financial planning company headquartered in Minneapolis with a global presence. The firm s focus areas include Asset Management and Advice, Retirement Planning and Insurance Protection. Be part of an inclusive, collaborative culture that rewards you for your contributions and work with other talented individuals who share your passion for doing great work. You ll also have plenty of opportunities to make your mark at the office and a difference in your community. So if youre talented, driven and want to work for a strong ethical company that cares, take the next step and create a career at Ameriprise India LLP.