NETWORK ENGINEER

Jordan Atherton

Building resilient, secure, and scalable network infrastructure.

Network Engineer | Turning Packets into Performance

Network Engineer specializing in routing protocols, Layer 2/3 design, and secure connectivity across distributed environments. Experienced with OSPF,ISIS,BGP, VLANs, VPN technologies, and network automation, with a strong background in troubleshooting real-world outages and performance issues. Passionate about building scalable, resilient networks and continuously improving infrastructure.

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5+ Outages Caused
100+ Outages Resolved
50+ Core Network Changes Delivered

PROFILE

About Me

I’m a Network Engineer focused on building and maintaining high-performance, resilient network infrastructure in complex environments. My experience spans advanced routing and transport technologies including BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EVPN, VXLAN, MPLS, and L3VPN, working across platforms such as Juniper, Fortinet, Cisco, Ciena, and Nokia. I work hands-on in production networks where stability, scalability, and rapid troubleshooting are critical. I specialize in diagnosing complex issues, optimizing routing behavior, and designing networks that perform under pressure. Whether it’s resolving outages, improving convergence, or scaling infrastructure, I bring a practical, results-driven approach to everything I do.

EXPERIENCE

Career Highlights

Network Engineer 2

Bluepeak | Remote

2020 - Present

Member of a Network Engineering team supporting enterprise and service provider infrastructure. Began with access-layer operations and rapidly progressed to core routing responsibilities, gaining hands-on experience across transport, firewall, and routing domains. Contribute to maintaining high availability, troubleshooting complex network issues, and supporting scalable, secure network design.

  • Redesigned and implemented a video transport network to meet high-availability requirements for customer-facing services
  • Re-architected edge site infrastructure to introduce redundancy and significantly improve uptime
  • Built and deployed an Ansible Tower environment from the ground up, automating repetitive tasks and improving operational efficiency
  • Designed and implemented a CGNAT solution to support scalable address management across the network
  • Took ownership of the corporate network and rebuilt it from the ground up, deploying HA Fortinet firewalls and EVPN-based VLAN switching
  • Standardized firewall and VPN deployment processes, migrating from legacy SSL VPN to more secure and scalable IPsec solutions
  • Designed and implemented a transport ring architecture using Ciena WaveServer AI hardware to improve resiliency and performance

PROJECTS

Infrastructure & Delivery

Redesigned/Implemented Video Network

Redesigned a legacy video transport network that was running on unsupported hardware, lacked sufficient throughput, and had no real redundancy despite supporting video delivery across the entire footprint. Re-architected the environment from the ground up with scalability and high availability as core priorities, deploying Juniper QFX5120-48Y switches with 100G uplinks directly into the core using aggregated Ethernet (AE) for future expansion. Implemented a structured access layer using stacked Juniper EX4400 switches, eliminating daisy-chaining and bottlenecks by leveraging proper VLAN distribution and uplink design. This resulted in a more efficient, scalable, and manageable network architecture. Additionally, redesigned the video distribution model by regionalizing feeds to isolate failures. This ensured that outages (such as power events) would only impact specific regions rather than the entire footprint. These improvements increased overall network uptime from approximately 70% to 99.99% while significantly enhancing performance, resiliency, and operational simplicity.

Juniper, IGMP, PIM