Network Engineer

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Chicago, IL

Mode : Contract (6+ Months) - Onsite

• 10+ years' experience in network engineering. Experience network engineering and operation with an enterprise organization preferred.
• 5+ years of experience leading project teams and/or mentoring junior engineers.
• In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.
• Experience working with SDN solutions such as Cisco ACI, VMware VNX
• Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.
• Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):
  • Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture
  • F5 LTM/GTM
  • Cisco UCS & Nexus
  • Cisco ACI
  • Cisco WAAS, WCCP
  • Cisco security solutions
  • Cisco ISE
  • Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions
  • QoS, prioritization of voice and video
  • Network automation
• Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures
• Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Scripting skills are a plus
• Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.
• Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment
• Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.
• Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation.