**The Job You Will Perform**:
- Plan, design, document, implement, and support WAN, data center, collocation and cloud infrastructures
- Work in collaboration with the architecture team to test, document, and provide proof of concepts for emerging technologies
- Troubleshoot, maintain, upgrade, and provide solutions to hardware/software problems
- Identify, communicate, and implement proactive changes that must be performed to prevent problems
- Management of International Paper's network to meet service levels, including capacity planning and upgrades
- Expand, deploy, refresh and remove all supported data center network technologies, software and services, in collaboration with Global Telecom architects
**The Skills You Will Bring**:
- A Bachelor's Degree in an IT-related discipline, or demonstrated years of experience
- 5+ years of network engineering experience working directly with WAN and data center network technologies and services
- Cisco CCNA or equivalent experience, CCNP preferred
- Wide Area Network (WAN) and Local Area Network (LAN) and Wireless Backup (3G/4G) data network technologies
- Protocols: Ethernet, MLPPP, PPP, IPSec and cellular data
- TCP/IP and Virtual LANs (VLAN) configuration of switches and routers
- Layer-3 (OSPF and BGP), Quality of Service (QoS), IPT integration, performance monitoring and tuning
- Hardware platform: Cisco
- VXLAN, ACI, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, QoS, performance monitor, tuning and packet decode
- WAN, Cisco SDWAN, ACI, and Nexus technology experience preferred
- Python, Perl, TCL, Bash or EEM scripting skills
- Excellent written and verbal, business and technical communication skills for management-level audiences
- Drive to succeed, highly self-motivated and ability to learn on the fly
- Ability to be flexible with changing requirements
- Professional and courteous attitude towards all team members