LAN Architect/Engineering

  • San Antonio, TX
  • Posted 13 days ago | Updated 16 hours ago

Overview

On Site
$$120K + Benefits
Full Time
100% Travel

Skills

perl
ansible
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or higher certification 2. Proficient with scripting technologies
including but not limited to Python
and Terraform.

Job Details

Position Title: LAN Architect/Engineering

Must Have

Technical/Functional Skills 1. 8 to 10 years of professional experience. 2. High-level teaming and communication skills to influence and persuade others. 3. Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to management. 4. Deep understanding of Internet Protocol (IP) addressing and Variable Length Subnet Mask (VLSM). 5. Extensive experience designing and implementing Cloud Networking Technologies and Solutions. 6. Strong experience with Monitoring and Alerting Tools: CloudWatch, Grafana, Zabbix, PagerDuty, Site24x7, Nagios. 7. Deep understanding of Local Area Network (LAN)

switching technologies including; VXLAN, ACI, fabric path, Spanning Tree, Virtual LAN (VLAN), and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) concepts.

Experience Required 1. Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or higher certification 2. Proficient with scripting technologies, including but not limited to Python, Ansible, Perl, and Terraform.

Roles & Responsibilities 1. Must have excellent communication and leadership skills. Needs to be confortable leading other Contingent Worker, Partners and site resources to the succesfull completion of network refreshes 2. Plan, configure, implement and document solutions in a complex network environment in support of new and existing cloud technology architectures. 3. Measurement, optimization, and tuning of network performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available. 4. Support a Cisco centric WAN, LAN, and WLAN environment. This includes routers, firewalls, security, WLAN. 5. Deep understanding of network orchestration and automation 6. Build BOM, coordinate resources, track execution, and validate deployment/upgraded equipment/site. 7. Supervise and or performing site installs, maintenance, upgrades or software enhancements to support the network infrastructure needs. 8. Function as a point of escalation for operational entities regarding regular or complex issues. 9. Monitor system for trouble areas and proactively resolve and document root cause. 10. Experience working Agile m

Required Information

Details

Role

Network Resiliency Engineer

Required Technical Skill Set

Expertise in Network LAN, Wireless, WAN & Security

Switching Models Cisco Catalyst 9000, 6800, 3800, 3500, 2900, Nexus 9K, 7K, 5K, 2K.

Strong knowledge in Switching technologies ACI, VPC, FEX, VDC, Cisco VSS, VPC, STP, Trunking, Ether channel, HSRP, VRRP, LACP, PaGP, Stacking etc.

Strong knowledge in Routing technologies: Handling Cisco ISR/ASR routers, F5 Load balancers, MPLS & SDWAN, Protocols include BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VRF, HSRP, L3 VPNs, IPsec, VPN, QoS, Intelligent WAN

Expert knowledge of Layer 3 technologies, including - IPv4, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, PIM, HSRP, DMVPN, NHRP, and GETVPN. F5 (GTM & LTM)

Strong knowledge in Firewalls like Palo Alto firewalls in High-availability mode & IPSec VPN

Good knowledge on Cisco ACI, APIC, SDA, ISE, DNAC, Infoblox & Zscaler.

Must-Have

1. Support large-scale production and corporate network infrastructure including routers, switches, wireless controllers, firewalls, proxy & DNS with fail-over testing.

2. Hands-on experience on Cisco Catalyst switches, ACI - Spine-leaf switches, APIC, Nexus switches, F5 Load balancers, Palo Alto Firewall, Infoblox & Zscaler.

3. Extensive hands-on experience and troubleshooting experience in Network Protocols - BGP, OSPF, MPLS, STP, Stacking etc. with high availability.

4. Strong experience handling network High-Availability testing with good understanding on fail-over mechanism across various network infrastructure.

5. Expert Knowledge of LAN switching technologies: STP, Trunking, Ether channel and good understanding of high availability fundamentals (HSRP and VRRP) & load balancing concepts like - LACP, PaGP

6. Good understanding of DHCP, DNS - Hands-on experience troubleshooting Cisco ISR routers, switches, Wireless controller & ISE.

7. Strong hands-on work experience with Cisco Nexus 7K, 5K, 2K devices, Cisco Catalyst 3K & 4K series and Cisco ASR & ISR Router models

8. Experience in deploying, and troubleshooting VPC, VSS, VDC, VPC, OTV, Fabric path, FCoE and Multi-tenancy in the datacenter.

9. Hands-on experience on Cisco DNAC - Solving reported request, incidents, and network problems of complexity.

10. Troubleshooting network device hardware/configuration issues, isolating the problem, fixing the problem.

11. Schedule and perform network maintenance, repair, and upgrade tasks as needed while limiting the impact on the production network.

12. Troubleshooting the routing protocols like BGP, EIGRP, Static and OSPF and work with the ISPs and internal teams to resolve the issues.

13. Experience working on CoS, QoS, WRED and related quality of service parameters.

14. Working knowledge on MPLS, Metro Ethernet and Hub & Spoke concepts.

15. Good Exposure to Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA), ISE, DNAC, Infoblox & Zscaler.

Good-to-Have

1. Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)

2. Cisco Certified Design Associate Exam (CCDA)

3. Experience in handling Network Fail-over test or DR test.