Job Description

What does a great IPAM Network Engineer do?

The IPAM Network Engineer will operate, support automation, and maintain the IP Address Management (IPAM) systems across the enterprise.  In addition to managing the system, the administrator will be responsible for managing address allocations and integrity of the data in the IPAM, ARIN, RIPE, and Domain Registrars.

Duties include:

• Ensure the IPAM platforms and services are managed and maintained.
• Develop automation and support embedded API calls for external system integration to the IPAM systems.
• Report on availability, response times of DNS and API, data integrity and capacity of the IPAM systems
• Develop scripts and automation to support IPAM as a service, and to maintain system.
• Manage 3rd party tool administration with partners such as CSC, Dyn, ARIN, R53, etc.
• Provide on call support
• Update operations and maintenance documentation for 24/7/365 personnel.
   

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Associates Degree in MIS, Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent Extensive and recent experience of DNS in a large enterprise (Configuration and Management).
• In-depth knowledge of DNS, NTP, IPAM, BIND, and DHCP.
• Strong critical thinking and problem-solving, and the ability to, and the ability to debug complex-cross systems problems, and document root cause including remediation and detection.
• Experience in change and incident management.

Preferred Skills, Experience, and Education:

• AWS Certification
• BIND DNS training/certification
• BlueCat DNS training
• Linux Certification
• Microsoft Server Certification
• Scripting experience: Bash, Python, Ansible, Powershell
• Experience with Microsoft DNS, Dyn, VMWare Automation products (vRO, vRA).
• Hands on experience with Python and APIs.