Senior Network Engineer

Job description

Become a part of our dynamic and growing technical team at RockIT. We are looking for a Qualified Network Engineer to strengthen our consulting practice.

If you possess outstanding customer service and communication skills, high energy level, the ability to work well in a team environment and ready to utilize your expertise, then RockIT is your future.

Headquartered in Houston, TX, RockIT is an IT full service technology solution provider. By leveraging our partner relationships with many of the leading information systems companies in the world such as Cisco and Microsoft, we bring enterprise class solutions to businesses who often don’t have expertise on staff.

After first seeking to understand our customer’s needs, we bring our customers a complete package of solutions with the ability to implement efficiently and with the most highly skilled staff in the industry.

Position Summary :

This is a full-time position for a Network engineer with multi-vendor device experience who will lead projects and work with customer to deliver the latest solutions.

This position involves planning, implementation, and support of network and security solutions at large enterprise networks with multi-vendor technologies.

The engineer will be working with multiple clients and will provide technical leadership in network practices, and day-to-day network technical support.

As a subject matter expert, the engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing and maintaining networking and edge devices, which includes routers, switches, firewalls, Intrusion detection, and related hardware, and provide recommendations for innovative network and security enhancements.

The engineer should be competent on application level security, implementation and management as well. Must have 4+ years of experience in network and security implementations.

Preferred Education and Qualifications :

A.S. degree or higher in engineering, science, mathematics, information systems or computer science.

8+ years of experience implementing network and infrastructure solutions.

Cisco CCNA or equivalent.

CCNP Preferred

Responsibilities :

Design, implement and support of infrastructure including Wireless, Switches, Routers, Firewalls, VPN solutions for the customers.

Risk and vulnerability assessments on enterprise networks.

Provide technical support and resolutions for upgrades and outages.

Continue to train and develop knowledge and skills of new technologies, processes, and systems.

Skills and Specifications :

Experience designing network and security solutions.

Experience configuring and troubleshooting with Firewalls, IDS / IPS, VPNs and other information security technologies products.

Cisco technologies preferred)

Experience installing configuring and troubleshooting Cisco Routers and Switches (Routers- ISR, 4xxx, 29xx, 39xx - Switches Nexus 9xxx, 7xxx, 5xxx, Catalyst 3xxx, 4xxx, 6xxx, 93XX, 92XX)

Understanding of, or experience with Cisco ISE solutions or other NPS policy management for VPN, Security, and Wireless integrations.

Excellent Layer 2 & 3 Networking Skills. Solid understanding of access and distribution layer LAN switching environments with VLANs, Spanning Tree (RSTP, PVST, MST), VTP, Etherchannel.

Ability to capture and interpret network traffic with WireShark or other software.

Ability to make and justify best practice suggestions for network security and design.

Working knowledge of Two-factor authentication.

Personal Skills that will help you be successful at RockIT :

Good team player

High degree of self-motivation.

Strong aptitude for learning new technologies

Good interpersonal communication and customer service skills

Great written and verbal communication skills.

Job Type : Full-time

Salary : 85,000.00 - $150,000.00 per year

Schedule :

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

Supplemental pay types :

Bonus pay

Experience :

• Computer networking : 4 years (Preferred)
• LAN : 4 years (Preferred)

License / Certification :

• CCNA (Required)
• CCNP (Preferred)

Work Location : In person