Lead Network Engineer (Remote)

Terrific Long-Term Contract Opportunity with a FULL suite of benefits!

Our client is looking for a Lead Network Engineer for an 11-month contract and will be working remotely.

Join the team at this Fortune 500 communications provider that's been around for nearly a century and be part of a mission to improve people's lives by connecting them to the power of the digital world.

Contract Duration: 11 Months
Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's degree.
• Experience in Guiding and providing Training to End Users around the Network.
• High-end consulting roles and specialized experience in IT/software in different industries with different functionalities of the Business, Computer systems analyst, computer programmer, software engineer, or other similarly skilled worker in the computer field performing the duties.
• Knowledge, deep understanding, and great experience in IT /Network.

• 7 years in the Financial Industry, in a Trading environment.
• Experience in the Architecture, Design, Implementation, and Maintenance of Trading-related Network infrastructure, such as Market Data Distribution Networks, and ultra-low-latency and low-latency networks.

General Competency:

• Highly motivated.
• Able to work in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment.
• Good communication skills.
• Customer focused.
• Ability to work effectively and productively with others, and still comfortable working independently.

Core Technical Competency:

• Architect, Design, Implement, and Troubleshoot Networks for different needs in the financial industry experience.
• A solid background designing, managing, and troubleshooting diverse multi-protocol, switched, and routed enterprise networks.
• Good at documentation in general.
• Competent in working with network diagrams using Microsoft Visio.
• Ability to troubleshoot network connectivity issues with both external and internal clients.
• Heavy hands-on experience with multiple internetworking devices
• Strong ability to use packet tracing technologies to troubleshoot network issues.

Specific Technology Expertise:

• Strong and extensive knowledge of complex protocols and technologies.
• Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIPv2, Static Routing, route-redistribution, summarization, Policy-Routing.
• Switching: Trunking, spanning- tree, dot1q, VLANs, VTP, Ethernet switching, multi-layer switching, vPC, MLAG.
• Multicast: PIM, IGMP, MSDP
• Network Services: TCP/IP, UDP, HSRP, DNS, DHCP, FTP, TFTP, NAT, TACACS, SSH, NTP, SYSLOG, TELNET,
• Network Management/Automation: SNMP, SYSLOG, IPSLA, NETFLOW, Network Telemetry, and Network automation tools.
• Security: IPSEC, VPNS, Firewalls.
• Packet Analysis: Wireshark, sniffers, packet captures, and packet decodes, Market Data packet decodes, FIX packet decodes.
• Vendor-specific technology expertise: Cisco switches and Routers: Cisco 4900M, Cisco Nexus3064, Nexus 3548, Cisco 3750, Cisco 6500, Cisco 3800, Cisco 7200, Cisco 7600,
• Arista 7150, 7050, 7500 series
• Fortinet Firewalls and Technologies
• Juniper Netscreen and SRX Firewalls.
• Corvil CNE-2100, 2110, 2300, 6300 7300, 8600, 8800, and CMCs.
• SevOne SNMP Management system.

Desired Skills & Experience

• Cisco or similar industry certifications.
• Specialized knowledge and certification in Network.

What You Will Be Doing Daily Responsibilities:

• Network analysis techniques and procedures, including consulting with users, to determine hardware, software, or system functional specifications.
• Design, development, documentation, analysis, creation, testing, or modification of computer systems/ programs, including prototypes, based on and related to user or system design specifications.
• Design, documentation, testing, creation, or modification of computer programs.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.