Network Engineer

Classification: Contract

Contract Length: 6-months

Position Summary

Provide large-scale data networking designs, services, consulting, and support in a fortune 100 company environment with national reach. These responsibilities will require the candidate to be a Subject Matter Expert across network technologies, services, and additional related components (as listed for this position). The candidate must provide solutions that meet Client and Partner network requirements and exceed networking service levels.


This position will interact daily with Project Management Teams, Product Development, Business Partners, Vendors, and CereCore team members, as well as the end users on developing network solutions to meet client's business requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implementation of Complex Large Scale WAN/LAN designs utilizing best practice switching/routing technologies and topologies. (i.e.: Fortune 100 experience in network design, deployment and support)
• Planning and integration of new technologies within a large network environment
• New and best of breed product and technology evaluations
• Working with vendors on product design enhancements and integration of new technologies
• OSPF/BGP routing protocols, IP advertising/advanced filtering/redistribution, Quality of Service, IP multicast
• Engineering consultations of Level II network troubleshooting/problem resolutions, protocol analysis, network troubleshooting/problem determination skills with network trace/capture/analysis software
• System architecture and tiered application modules knowledge. Understanding of end-to-end data flows and traffic patterns.
• Network impact analysis, modeling, network capacity planning
• Software/hardware device upgrades, LAN equipment configurations/provisioning (see specific technologies within Area of Experience section).
• IP addressing, variable length subnet masking
• Wide Area Network technology design, provisioning and configuration (i.e. MPLS, VPLS, ATM, ISDN, Private Line, Frame Relay) and WAN equipment configurations for bandwidth rates from DSL to 1gb, as well as Metro-E connectivity from 10 Mb to 100 Gb.
• Networking services for ACS, AAA, DHCP, BOOTP, DNS, ICMP and SNMP
• Design and support for network security technologies and products (Palo Alto, Checkpoint, A10/F5, Zscaler and NetScaler)
• Remote access technologies (i.e. SSL-VPN, IPSec, B2B, private line and Dial-up).
• Quality of service configuration and testing.
• A10/F5 Load-balancing configuration, including iRule creation and creating custom monitors
• Providing input on Network standards and policies/procedural documentation and enterprise level network diagramming
• Training/Mentoring peers, Project Management and problem management skill sets
• Meet IT&S change management and project management requirements
• ITIL Knowledge
• Minimal travel (up to 20%) for network analysis, network upgrades, customer network consultations, training

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, Computer Science, or a related field.
• 6-7 years of experience working as a Network Engineer or related role
• Cisco Data Networking Technologies
• Aruba and/or Arista Data Network Technologies experience desirable
• Wireless experience desirable
• Layer 1-2 (i.e.: Trunking, VLANs, STP, Multicast, PPP, Frame/Relay, ATM, MPLS, Metro-E, VPLS, OEW)
• Layer 3 (i.e. OSPF, BGP, Cisco VRFs, QOS, ACLs, Route redistribution, MPLS-VPNs, etc.)
• Network Management Tools (ie: CiscoWorks, Voyence, IP-SLA, Netflow, SMNP, logging, etc.
• Network Security (i.e. ACLs, Palo Alto and Checkpoint Firewall, Route-maps, IOS Firewall, routing protocol authentication)
• General Security knowledge (i.e. Network design knowledge within a large (1300+ router and 100+ FW) environment
• Participate in capacity planning strategies used by operational departments
• Troubleshooting complex large network issues
• IP management standards
• Network Services (DNS, DHCP, NTP, etc.)
• Video over IP knowledge a plus
• Participation in RFP/RFQ responses
• Understanding of Managed services and outsourcing
• Training and presenting technical material to peers
• Cisco CCNP Routing and Switching preferred, CCNA required or relevant experience
• Willingness to learn new technologies
• As this is a Work From Home position, candidate must provide his/her own high-speed, reliable Internet connectivity