Sr. Enterprise Network Engineer

CDW is seeking a Sr. Enterprise Network Engineer for a remote contract to hire opportunity.

Job Type: 3-month contract to hire

Location: Remote, but must be located in one of the following states: Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Texas, Kansas, or Illinois

Pay Rate: $60-70/ hour

Salary: $125-140k

Main Focus:

• Enterprise networking including heavy experience with MPLS, BGP, and DMVPN
• Senior level background with LAN/WAN with focus on routing and switching

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Enterprise Network Engineer (Senior) is responsible for deployment and continued support of mission critical network infrastructure systems in the areas of Route/Switch, Security, and Wireless technologies. Technologies utilized by the Enterprise Network Engineer Senior include: Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco ACL, Cisco Meraki, Cisco DNA Center, Cisco Prime, Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus, Cisco Fabric Path, Cisco Firepower, Palo Alto Firewall, Panorama, IDS, IPS, Silver Peak SD-WAN Optimization, NetBrain, LiveAction, and Wireless Flex Connect. The position also requires demonstrated competence in LAN/WAN technologies, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, Spanning Tree, SDN, SDA, and Software Defined Networking. Last, the Enterprise Network Engineer (Senior) is responsible for the coordination of cross-functional teams in relation to the deployment and support of the physical/virtual network infrastructure, which includes technologies such as VMWare, Linux, Windows Server, physical Servers, and enterprise storage arrays.

PRINCIPAL DUTIES AND JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

Network Administration & Network Infrastructure Support

Examples of specific tools associated network administration include:

• Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• Cisco Prime
• Network Probes
• DNA Center
• Packet Brokers
• SolarWinds
• LiveAction
• Network Time Machine
• Infinistream
• Wireshark
• iPerf
• NetBrain
• LiveAction

Assist the organization in the performing of scheduled Disaster Recovery tests for designated mission critical systems.

Work with other application and other technical teams in provide localized high-availability

Assist in the development of project plans, including related timelines, for the scheduled refresh and network version upgrades of existing systems. The project plans should incorporate both short-term and long-term technical objectives, along with analysis on capacity, performance and security considerations.

Manage and participate in the monitoring, optimization and diagnosis of currently deployed network systems. Provide the appropriate documentation to management, detailing the root cause analysis of outages, performance concerns, and propose resolution and optimization options. Examples of specific tools to monitor and optimize system performance include: SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Network Probes, Packet brokers, iPerf, SDA and Cisco DNA Center.

Work closely with the Manager and the Enterprise Security Architecture Team to plan, design, implement, support, and monitor that the security initiatives are being met for the organization.

Collaborate with the Enterprise Network Engineer Service Leads and the Enterprise Network Architect to implement, configure, and support the Enterprise Network Infrastructure. Assist in the initial capacity analysis, deployment design, and overall system architecture needed to support the Network platform and expected support activity.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

• Experience with Project Management of Network related projects.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Proven skills with Cisco platforms such as Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Catalyst, Nexus, Firepower and Palo Alto Firewalls in a production environment.
• Proven skills with network operating systems such as Catalyst, Nexus, Linux and Windows systems.
• Strong experience discussing and planning application architecture with cross-functional application, business, technical teams and third-party vendors.

REQUIRED EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE/CERTIFICATIONS:

• A or B.S. in a degree such as Computer Science, Information Systems or Information Technology or 7 years related experience.
• Minimum of 7 years in the support of an enterprise network platform in a 24x7 environment, including platforms such as Wireless, Security and Route Switch.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in supporting network infrastructure platforms such as Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), wireless Flex Connect, VPN, Content filtering, Data Center, Nexus, Catalyst and management.
• Certification in a current or the latest version of an enterprise version of Cisco Administration (preferred)