Sr. Network Specialist

Position: Sr. Network Specialist with 15+ Years of Exp only

Location: Brooklyn, NY (Locals only)

Duration: Contract C2C

Mandatory Networking Skills:

• Extensive Routing Protocol Experience
• BGP (iBGP and eBGP) configuration, troubleshooting, route policies
• MPLS L3VPN, TE, QoS over MPLS
• OSPF multi-area, route redistribution, design best practices
• Minimum 15 years in Networking in large environments.
• Strong hands-on work with Cisco routing/switching in enterprise or service provider setups.

Desirable Skills:

Cisco Platform & Technology Expertise

• Especially important for this specific NYC OTI project:
• Cisco NCS routers deployment, IOS-XR familiarity, understanding hardware limitations (line cards, power supplies, feature sets).
• Multiple ring configurations over dark fiber.
• Core/PE & CPE router/switch configuration in mid-to-large networks.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise QoS solutions.

Network Management & Monitoring Skills

• Configuring and troubleshooting:
• SNMPv3
• Syslog
• NetFlow
• NTP
• Understanding of monitoring, logging, and telemetry best practices.

Network Design & Documentation

• Ability to produce network architectural diagrams (preferably in MS Visio).
• Updating asset management in ServiceNow.
• Creating and following configuration templates.
• Decommissioning processes (removing unused IPs, cleaning configs, updating docs).

Soft Skills & Work Approach

• Strong analytical and conceptual skills.
• Cross-functional team collaboration.
• Customer and quality focus.
• Onsite fieldwork readiness travel across all five boroughs.
• Ability to work in scheduled maintenance windows.

Thanks,

Nitesh