IT Network Engineer

About the Opportunity :

We are partnering with a leading national healthcare support organization that is seeking an IT Network Engineer . This role is part of an industry-leading IT team working in a fast-paced environment and functions primarily as mid to upper-tier support through all phases of the project and hardware lifecycle.

This individual is also responsible for all aspects of the enterprise end-to-end network performance, with specific emphasis on ensuring efficient, reliable application and system services delivery to all constituents in the organization.

Location : Irving, TX (onsite position)

Compensation : $100,000-110,000 plus bonus

Please note this range is an estimate and actual pay may vary based on qualifications and experience.

• Responsibilities : Participate in architecture reviews with IT groups, ensure supportability requirements and standards are followed.
• Develop new standards to maintain or improve stability and scalability of the current network environment with specific considerations to sustainability and future-proof design.
• Research and recommend innovative, and where possible, automated approaches for network and system administration tasks.

Identify approaches that leverage existing resources and provide economies of scale.

• Author documents that improve governance and librarianship with network-related architectures.
• Skilled in determining how a system should work and how changes in conditions, operations, and the environment will affect outcomes.
• Daily maintenance and administration of various systems such as core network, wireless, and remote office network infrastructures, in both production and development environments.

Resolve or report critical issues to the Mgr, Enterprise Operations for resolution.

• Provide intermediate and advanced tier support for troubleshooting various network, application and systems. Support all networking hardware.
• Install new and configure existing hardware in accordance with standards and project / operational requirements.
• Contribute to and maintain system standards.
• Perform daily system monitoring, verifying the integrity and availability of all hardware, systems and key processes, reviewing system and application logs, and verifying completion of network- related scheduled jobs.
• Perform network-related data backups and disaster recovery operations.
• Repair and recover from hardware, software, or circuit failures. Coordinate and communicate with impacted constituencies.
• General support of production systems as required.
• Apply patches and upgrades on a regular basis and upgrade administrative tools and utilities according to defined policies and standards.
• Perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.
• Mentor junior network administrators and engineers in all aspects of network design, operations, deployment, documentation and standards.
• Ideal Qualifications : Bachelor’s degree with a technical major such as engineering or computer science (or equivalent education and applicable work experience).

In lieu of a degree, +2 years of professional experience is required.

• 5+ years of network administration or engineering experience
• CCNP / JNCIP / JNCIS or relevant experience is ideal
• Experience with :
• SDWAN technologies (e.g. Velo Cloud or related)
• Firewall, Routing, Switching technologies (e.g. Aruba 2800 and 10000 series and Juniper SRX and EX series products)
• Various Network CLI languages such as Aruba, Cisco, or Juniper
• Routers, layer 2 and layer 3 switches
• Spanning Tree, VRRP, BGP, OSPF, iBGP, MPLS and VPN technologies
• Wireless networking, RF and heat mapping tools
• Network functions such as DHCP, DNS, AD, WINS and how to design and administer solutions, and troubleshoot problems as they relate to network operations
• Packet capture and analysis, span / mirror port strategy and related network monitoring tools
• Knowledge of :
• POTS, DS1 / T1, Fiber, GigE and 10GigE, VoIP, SIP
• OSI Model, IP addressing, subnetting, VLAN, routing
• 802.11x, 802.1x, RF design
• Load balancers and firewalls (ex. NetScaler’s)
• Enterprise wireless technologies and security
• Intermediate experience with Windows operating systems from 2012R2 to current.
• Strong skills in :
• Communication, both written and verbal
• Troubleshooting and creative problem-solving
• Able to work evenings and weekends as needed for change controls or occasional emergencies.

About Sayva : Sayva Solutions is an accounting, finance, technology, business transformation, and human resources professional services firm whose focus is on long term relationships created through teamwork and doing what is in the best interest of others.

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