Network Engineer Level 3

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Company Background:

Gilt Groupe provides access, by invitation only, to Men's, Women's, Children's, Beauty, and Home coveted fashion and luxury brands at prices up to 70% off retail. Each sale lasts 36 hours and features hand selected styles from a single designer. The business model, based on urgency and scarcity, offers extraordinary goods at incredible prices, but only for a limited time. All of these sales occur daily at noon, driven by daily email reminders and alerts to a private membership. Most of the hot items are sold within the first 10 minutes, with the bulk of sales occurring within the first 90 minutes.

Responsibilities (include, but not limited to):

  • Installing, supporting and maintaining new server hardware and software infrastructure
  • Managing email, anti spam and virus protection
  • Setting up user accounts, permissions and passwords
  • Monitoring network usage
  • Ensuring the most cost-effective and efficient use of servers
  • Suggesting and providing IT solutions to business and management problems
  • Ensuring that all IT equipment complies with industry standards
  • Analyzing and resolving faults, such as a major system crash
  • Undertaking routine preventative measures and implementing, maintaining and monitoring network security, particularly if the network connects to the internet;
  • Providing training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT knowledge and competence
  • Supervising other staff, such as help desk technicians
  • Working closely with other departments/organizations and collaborating with other IT staff
  • Planning and implementing future IT developments and undertaking project work
  • Managing the intranet and keeping internal networks running
  • 24/7 call rotation


Required Skills/Experience:

  • Masters in Computer Science
  • Extensive Routing, switching and firewalls experience
  • Application and system monitoring and troubleshooting
  • Excellent troubleshooting skills
  • Network monitoring
  • Thorough knowledge of Windows desktop and server operating systems
  • Ability to design and implement new network topology as needed
  • Ability to install, configure and support Cisco switches, routers and firewalls
  • Familiarity with WIFI 802.11 technology; Cisco certification a plus
  • Familiarity with SANS and tape libraries.  Ability to design and support backup network.; Familiarity with disk based backup.
  • Knowledge of server virtualization, especially VMWare
  • Knowledge of VOIP phone systems
  • Ability to design and configure network to support optimal phone quality
  • Ability to install, and evaluate new software and/or hardware products
  • Ability to work independently with minimal supervision
  • Ability to plan, manage and implement technical projects

If interested, please send your resume to [email protected]