Senior Network Design Engineer -Harrisburg, PA or Ashburn, VA

Senior Network Design Engineer – Strong Security

Position: 12 month contract Harrisburg, PA or Ashburn, VA Rate: $55/ hour on W2 only DOE Candidate may work remotely (telecommute) Join our client for a 12 month contract position as a Senior Network Design Engineer. This position may be located in Harrisburg, PA or Ashburn, VA. The Senior Network Design Engineer is a member of a mission critical data center network operations team. The team's primary responsibility is the management of a Cisco network infrastructure supporting hundreds of Microsoft Windows server instances, Client and IBM mainframe/mid-range, and AIX platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

- Functions as technical lead on complex network troubleshooting issues and incoming design and architecture requests. - Administer and maintain high availability, enterprise, datacenter network in support of client SLAs - Configuration of Cisco switches and routers series such as Nexus 7000, 5000, 2000 and Catalyst 6500, 3800, 2800, etc. Familiarity with Cisco Virtual Switching System (VSS) preferred. - Design and management of Juniper firewalls using CLI and Junos Space. - Administer F5 Load-Balancing modules for application delivery and load balancing. - Proficient with EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VLANs, Wireless LANs and VPN appliances. - Assess current and proposed network designs and proactively makes recommendations based on customer requirements. - Assess team's process delivery and makes recommendations for process improvements. - Participate in solution architecture meetings design meetings - Provide Technical Peer review with Design Engineers.

Technical and Behavioral Skills:

- Advanced Cisco certifications highly desired (CCIE, CCNP, CCDP, CCSP, etc.) - Strong network security methodology, concept, design and support experience - Proven operational experience with high availability, enterprise data center networks. - Excellent oral and written communication skills to clearly communicate with clients are a must. - 1+ years of experience as a Network Engineer with emphasis on data center routing, switching, and network security standards/best practices, design, and implementation - Familiarity with ITIL v3 based service delivery model using change/incident/problem management highly desired. - Must be available to participate in an on-call rotation