Network Engineer-Houston, TX

Network Engineer

Location: Houston, TX Duration: 06 Months Contract Rate: DOE US Citizens and Green Cards, GC EAD and H4 EAD preferred.

Primary Responsibilities

• Install and support LANs, WANs, network segments, Internet, and intranet systems.
• Install and maintain network hardware and software.
• Analyze and isolate issues.
• Monitor networks to ensure security and availability to specific users.
• Evaluate and modify system's performance.
• Identify user needs.
• Determine network and system requirements.
• Maintain integrity of the network, server deployment, and security.
• Ensure network connectivity throughout a company's LAN/WAN infrastructure is on par with technical considerations.
• Design and deploy networks.
• Perform network address assignment.
• Assign routing protocols and routing table configuration.
• Assign configuration of authentication and authorization of directory services.
• Maintain network facilities in individual machines, such as drivers and settings of personal computers as well as printers.
• Maintain network servers such as file servers, VPN gateways, intrusion detection systems.
• Administer servers, desktop computers, printers, routers, switches, firewalls, phones, smartphones (iPad/iPhone), software deployment, security updates and patches.

Education Qualifications

• 4-year degree in computer science or related field.
• CISCO CCNA certification.
• 10+ years' successful network troubleshooting experience
• Must be able to complete complex projects with minimal to no supervision
• Proven experience managing a large and complex network
• Effective problem-solving skills
• Strong safety record and a history of establishing safe work practices

Required Skills

• MS Windows Server
• Software distribution via Intune
• Okta admin
• Office 365 admin
• Cohesity Backup system
• MS RDS
• VM Ware
• Palo-Alto firewall admin
• Palo-Alto GlobaProtect VPN
• Avaya PBX
• Printer management
• Proof Point email security
• Crowd Strike
• Cisco Umbrella

Plus:

• Digital Gardian experience
• Zerto
• Nimble Storage
• HPE SimpliVity
• ForeScout
• Azure ADP
• iOS MDM using InTune