Network Engineer

Title: Network Engineer


Location: Denver, CO


Pay Rate Range: $55 - $70 / hour


Benefits: This position is eligible for medical, dental, vision, and 401k.


Our client is looking for a hands-on Network Engineer to join their growing Enterprise Network team. This is an opportunity for an engineer who enjoys being in the field and working directly with network equipment, cabling, installations, implementations, and troubleshooting-not sitting behind a desk focused solely on design and documentation.


The candidate will play a key role in building, upgrading, and maintaining network infrastructure across data centers, corporate offices, maintenance facilities, and industrial environments.


Responsibilities:

• Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot network equipment across data centers, corporate offices, maintenance facilities, and industrial locations.
• Work directly with Cisco and Arista switches, routers, wireless infrastructure, and related network equipment.
• Perform hands-on network implementations, upgrades, replacements, migrations, and troubleshooting.
• Rack, stack, cable, patch, label, and physically install network equipment when required.
• Troubleshoot connectivity issues from the physical layer through routing, switching, wireless, and other network layers.
• Support wired and wireless networks across multiple geographically distributed facilities.
• Participate in new data center builds, including physical network infrastructure installation, configuration, testing, and turn-up.
• Help modernize and upgrade existing data center and enterprise network infrastructure.
• Support network installations and implementations for new facilities and site expansions.
• Work onsite with facilities, infrastructure teams, vendors, contractors, and other technical teams to get network infrastructure installed and operational.
• Configure and troubleshoot enterprise routing and switching environments.
• Support connectivity between the enterprise network, Microsoft Azure, Oracle, internet service providers, and other external/cloud environments.
• Troubleshoot complex network issues involving equipment, cabling, circuits, configurations, and connectivity.
• Travel between facilities as needed to support network projects, installations, and troubleshooting.
• Provide senior-level technical expertise while remaining actively involved in the physical and technical implementation of network solutions.
• Create and maintain network diagrams, configurations, standards, procedures, and documentation.
• Share knowledge and troubleshooting techniques with other members of the Enterprise Network team.

Experience / Qualifications:

• Bachelors or Masters Degrees in Computer Science, Information Technology, Telecom Engineering or a related Science or Technology fields. (Required)
• Advanced Certs such as CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Data Center, CWDP, Optical Networking or Arista ACE Professional
• 5-8+ years of progressive network engineering experience.
• Strong hands-on experience installing, configuring, upgrading, and troubleshooting enterprise network infrastructure.
• Strong Cisco networking experience.
• Advanced understanding of enterprise routing and switching.
• Experience working directly with data center network infrastructure.
• Strong wired and wireless networking experience.
• Experience physically installing and supporting network equipment, cabling, patch panels, and related infrastructure.
• Experience performing network implementations, migrations, upgrades, and infrastructure modernization.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex network problems across multiple layers.
• Comfortable working in data centers, equipment rooms, maintenance facilities, and other infrastructure environments.
• Ability and willingness to get hands-on with equipment and physical infrastructure when the job requires it.
• Strong technical documentation and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple projects and priorities across different locations.

Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.