Network Engineer

Contract Network Engineer

Our client is looking for two motivated, detail-oriented, and collaborative Contract Network Engineers to support our multi-state, multi-site networking infrastructure team. A successful candidate responds to potentially time-sensitive situations with the right balance of expeditious and methodical. Someone who demonstrates integrity, awareness, and adaptability working in a diverse team with dynamically shifting requirements would excel in this role.

Responsibilities:

• Designing and implementing new network solutions and/or improving the efficiency of current networks for clients.
• Networks include business office deployments, research lab deployments, industrial systems deployments, and energy plant site deployments.
• Installing, configuring, maintaining, and supporting network equipment, or procuring and managing third party resources to provide as a Network Engineer.
• You will play an important role in designing and implementing commercial and industrial network systems supporting our new construction projects.
• Your primary responsibilities will include understanding business needs from enterprise networking requirements to industrial control systems.
• You will be identifying the appropriate technologies and systems to meet the need, applying best practices in network architecture, cyber security, and change management.
• Support and installation effort.
• Availability of all IP transport functions including edge firewalls, SDWAN, LAN/WAN routing and switching.
• Maximizing network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Maximizing wireless network performance through ongoing monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Investigating faults in the network and updating equipment.
• Reporting network status to key stakeholders.
• Produce and maintain documentation of network functions.
• Stay up to date with industry standards and network equipment.
• Work with a team of IT system engineers and managers to maintain availability of enterprise IT services and infrastructure.
• Hardware and Service Provider contract/licensing/support management.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of network engineer experience required
• 3+ years with Industrial control system (ICS) networking infrastructure and protocols (DCS/SCADA) experience.
• Knowledge of full spectrum of enterprise networking hardware.
• Experience with Aruba CX, Palo Alto, National Instruments cRIO or equivalent solutions.
• Demonstrated knowledge of Layer2/3 technologies and protocols.
• Knowledge of application-level protocols such as SNMP, SSH, DHCP, DNS. 802.1x, IPSec.
• Networking certifications - ACSP, CCNP, or equivalent knowledge to be demonstrated.
• Ability to build rapport with business partners.
• Deadline and detail-oriented