Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer Location: Houston, TX Duration: 6+ Months, Onsite. Client: APEX/BP-Houston Required Skills Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cisco Requirements: Senior level Cisco Network Engineer with 7+ yrs of experience Strong cisco network design, deployment, and documentation skills Strong ability to self-manage, organize, and prioritize workload Strong communication skills to negotiate work scope, apprise project team, and to resolve issues by involving others Highly skilled with Cisco Switch Stacking, Layer2 (Trunk, LACP, STP design), Layer3 (BGP, SVI) Able to make recommendations to Architect on design, and able to flex to use company standards or other best-practices Able to document implementation design and guide team through physical installation Strong implementation skills & experience Rack-n-Stack Configuration according to best practices A preference towards automation System hardening according to Cisco guides Able to document as-built design (L1 – L3) and provide KT/hand-off to support team Able to create full set of test-cases and validate & document network failure conditions Able to manage compute systems or automation to perform validation Preferred automation might include Robot framework, Python, Ansible etc. Specifically they’ll need to have the following skills/experience: Cisco CCNP level experience for 5+ yrs Switch Stacking – (initially 9300L, followed by 9300S when delivered) Fiber interconnections (20-40K SMF, Local MMF) LACP Port Channels Strong hands-on understanding of subnetting and IP Address planning iBGP configuration eBGP configuration L3 SVI’s L2 LACP trunk to downstream L2 LACP trunk to upstream + 2 x /30 SVI’s for L3 BGP establishment L2 Spanning Tree loop-free Design (prune appropriate VLANs on Fiber ring) Palo Alto experience My3Tech Inc