Network Engineer

Position : Network Engineer

Location : Richardson, TX 100% On site

6-12+ Months Contract

Job Description :

Top Must have Skills : 8+ years with hands on :

Advanced Cisco Routing / Switching - Hardware Deployment (routers / switches)

Performing discoveries on existing equipment in preparation to upgrade / replace

Creating configuration

Applying configuration

Installation and testing of hardware

Support and troubleshooting of the hardware.

Intermediate Palo Alto firewalls

Performing policy review and documentation of existing firewall environments

Applying base configuration to firewalls new out of box.

Applying policy to firewalls (add new, change existing, removal)

Installation and testing of hardware

Support and troubleshooting of the hardware.

Intermediate WAN experience

Identification of circuits at a DMARC

Protocol and topology understanding

Connecting circuits to equipment

Configuration of interfaces to accommodate circuit type.

Configuration of routing on the devices to support the L3 connectivity.

Troubleshooting and supporting connections

Top Nice to Have Skills :

3+ years of hands-on experience in Configuration, Installation, Testing, Troubleshooting and Support for each :

Cisco Wireless

Cisco Voice / CUCM

Cisco / Viptela SDWAN

Responsibilities :

Your expertise will require experience in multiple areas including Design and Engineering, Data Center and Cloud Network Infrastructure, Application Load Balancing, Certificate Management, IPAM, Virtualization, LAN, WAN, WAN Optimization, System Capacity Management, Firewalls, IPS / IDS / IPDS, Network Segmentation, IPsec, and Wi-Fi

You will configure, support, and monitor Network segmentation solutions for all actively applied policies for network attached devices.

You will be part of a team that responds to monitored events, manages capacity, and evaluates the existing infrastructure.

You will support day-to-day functions through corporate ITSM solution that includes, switching, routing, wireless, SDWAN, WAN, firewall and load balancing requests or issues.

You will support troubleshooting of reported issues, assist with root cause analysis, for application performance, congested bandwidth, network access problems for all on-premises and cloud environments as well as escalation support to Network Operations personnel.

In addition to operational support activities, you will be responsible to support all internally driven projects, for cross functional efforts and all business-driven projects;

either serving as project technical lead or project technical member.

Assist with the design, engineering, installation and maintenance of listed disciplines and systems.

Evaluate existing design, research new technologies and provide technical recommendations that either solve current technical problems or gaps, improve operational efficiencies, enable the business or as part of system life cycle management.

Create and update existing documentation for work performed defining system parameters, logical / physical topologies, standards, and methods of procedures for support.

Effectively communicate with project managers, direct management / team members and team members from other groups either via email, IM or through face-to-face interactions.