Immediate need for a talented Network Engineer. This is a 12 Months opportunity with long-term potential and is located in Charlotte NC, Cincinnati, Ohio, St. Petersburg Fl, Raleigh NC (Hybrid).
Please review the job description below and contact me ASAP if you are interested.
Job Diva ID: 25-94213
Pay Range: $70 - $75/hour. Employee benefits include, but are not limited to, health insurance (medical, dental, vision), 401(k) plan, and paid sick leave (depending on work location).
Key Responsibilities: -
- Creation of network infrastructure designs, configurations, standards and documentation to effectively deliver network solutions
- Define and document technical requirements for new capabilities, work with key suppliers to solution, build and certify ensuring compliance with all functional, operational and business objectives. Develop proposals and communicate outcomes that address business value/risk and gain partner approval
- Collaborate closely with peer IT organizations helping to influence, guide and direct technical outcomes; ensuring mutual strategy alignment
- Maintain accurate diagrams and configurations for all network devices.
- Prepare engineering job packages consisting of detailed parts / equipment lists, and appropriate documentation (drawings, network diagrams, configurations, etc.).
- Ensure cost effective design of systems with the ultimate goal of meeting business needs and providing reliable and efficient service to the customer.
- Prepare and submit cost estimates for planned installations where required.
- Collaborate across the IT organization to provide end-to-end solutions.
- Procure, turn-up, and troubleshoot both private and public WAN circuits
- Troubleshoot complexing routing designs, LAN switching environments, and firewall policy.
- Analysis of QoS policies for various applications and VOIP.
- Work in an Agile engineering environment on team-based projects and assignments.
Key Requirements and Technology Experience:
- Key Skills; Network Infrastructure , Design , Cisco Products , Routing & Switching , Network Protocols, VPN Technologies
- Bachelor s degree from a four-year college or university plus a minimum of five years of experience in Information Technology with at least four years of design and support of Cisco Systems products.
- In lieu of a degree, a minimum of ten years of experience in Information Technology with at least five years of design and support of Cisco Systems products.
- Experience with network capacity planning, network security principles and general network management best practices.
- Understanding of communication technology and fundamentals.
- Ability to work well within a team; good interpersonal relational skills
- Effective verbal & written communication
- Experience in coordination with multiple groups, companies, and people simultaneously
- Demonstrated ability to work productively with little direct supervision.
- Demonstrated organizational and time management skills
- Ability to effectively prioritize multiple tasks
- Willingness and ability to learn new skills
- Adherence to Change Management practices
- Strong interpersonal skills to support successful performance in a team environment
- Superior working knowledge of the telecommunications systems, associated safety policies, practices, work procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Superior inter-personal skills (listening, conflict management, approachability, negotiations) with ability and willingness to share information and transfer knowledge to others.
- Ability to present information on technically complex subjects in an understandable manner in both oral and written form to business clients and senior management
- Cisco Certifications: CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, CCDP
- Agile Certification: Kanban Management Professional, Scrum Master
- Experience with the following network hardware/software solutions:
- Cisco routers, switches, wireless controllers, APs, phones, ASAs, ACS, ISE, DNA, ACI and OTV
- Palo Alto firewalls and Panorama
- Advanced working experience with network technologies and protocols such as spanning tree, TCP/IP V4/V6, SIP, ARP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, DMVPN, Link Aggregation, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP/VRRP/GLBP, VSS/VSL, QoS, Multicast, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, IPsec, RADITACACS , Cisco ASRs/Cisco NexCisco IOS, HTTP/s, MPLS, IKEv2, IPv6, Route-maps, SNMP, ACL, Palo Alto Firewalls, Opengear Terminal Servers and Syslog
- Datacenter experience with technologies like ACI and OTV around design, implementation, & support
- Experience in leading key network projects, representing the organization and working closely with Product Owners, Operations, Business Units, Suppliers, and Peer Organizations
- Experience with designing communications solutions for SCADA systems
- Ability to design repeatable, reliable, and scalable solutions with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery
- Experience with Python, shell scripts, RESTful APIs, EEM Scripting, JSON/XML, Ansible automation is a plus
- Experience navigating process-oriented workflows, understanding many different internal business partner requirements and building good working relationships.
Our client is a leading Utility Industry type, and we are currently interviewing to fill this and other similar contract positions. If you are interested in this position, please apply online for immediate consideration.
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