Remote Contract for ACS Migration Network Engineer

Remote Contract for ACS Migration Network Engineer Contract Sonoma Consulting is one of the fastest growing Global IT Consulting and Executive Search providers with offices in Naperville IL; Chicago IL; Tyson's Corner VA and Hyderabad India. Our clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies throughout the world. We look to our large recruiting team to continue to build upon the high standards we have set and ways to continually improve our recruiting process around the speed and quality of the resources we deliver. The Sonoma team prides itself on best model for delivery of IT Resources in a 24/7 model, our high level of professionalism and integrity which enables us to create long-term, meaningful relationships with our clients. We currently have an immediate need for an ACS Migration Network Engineer. This position will work about 60% of the time onsite in Columbia, Maryland while the rest of the time the position will be worked remotely from home. The ACS Subject Matter Expert will perform design, configuration, policy testing and test plan execution to validate the design successfully meets requirements. The ACS SME will provide services for migrating deployments and redesigning policies to provide better granular control over device administration. Project Functions Install and configure one ACS VM appliances Migrate existing TACACS configuration Test several devices Update LLD if necessary Provide cutover support for no more than twenty-five (25) production network devices configured to use the new ACS appliances for TACACS Verify each device type NDG configured in ACS is represented by these pilot network devices Migrate existing production nodes to the new deployment Configure each VM node as a dedicated admin/logging node Execute test plan Provide first day cutover support Complete design workshop Spin up a new VM node to act as migration server for testing new policies in a non-production environment Test new policies on a selection of non-production devices, including at least one from each configured device type if possible Select at least two (2) production devices from each configured device type to move over to the new VM node for production testing of the new policies Migrate existing production ACS nodes to the new policy configuration Requirements Must have experience as an ACS Migration Engineering Subject Matter expert Experience performing ACS Migrations preferably including version 5.7 Experience performing Production Node Migrations Experience performing test plans Experience configuring VMware nodes Sonoma Consulting is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. #J-18808-Ljbffr Sonoma Consulting