Network Engineer Senior

Job Title: Network Engineer Senior
Job Location: Dallas, TX
Job Type: Contract

Job Description:

Provide support to various networking products and technologies such as routing, switching, firewall management, load balancing, WAN optimization and security
Provide firewall configuration, management, validation and support
Primary responsibilities will be addressing vulnerabilities with code updates or configuration changes as needed to maintain operational health.
Identify single points of failure/risks to the business and provide a reasonable solution to remediate the risk
Monitor and analyze network and related system performance and provide reports on a regular basis, identify hot spots
Actively monitor and react to real-time network conditions to quickly identify and react to issues and outages
Maintains and updates network infrastructure including but not limited to load balancers, WAN Optimization, Wireless Controllers and Access Points, and Solarwinds.
Prepares and follows detailed documentation, standards and guidelines, for data and telephony environments
Takes corrective action to improve system performance; travels to off-site locations to perform related work, if required
Provide assistance and knowledge transfer to various IT departments on data, network, and voice related functions

Qualifications
Associate or bachelor's Degree preferred
CCNP certification preferred but not required
5+ years' experience working knowledge of Network Technologies
Experience in multi-datacenter, multi-site network topologies utilizing SDWAN and point-to-point WAN technologies
Proficient with networking technologies such as GLBP, HSRP, QoS, OSPF, and BGP
Ability to manage polices, object groups, VPN configurations and end user support
Must have strong knowledge of multi context firewall environments
Must have strong knowledge of common Cisco command line interface
Ability to make good judgments, decisions, negotiate and problem solve
Ability to understand and clearly communicate technical information to non-IT personnel
Maintain a high level of knowledge regarding the clients computing environment
Must demonstrate strong sense of urgency regarding solving end-user issues
Efficiently and effectively solve problems regarding system errors or usage issues
Must be able to minimize downtime by rapidly diagnosing and resolving problems
Be able to track and document information regarding troubleshooting techniques
Maintain a high level of teamwork and communication
Ability to perform after-hours work for scheduled maintenance and unscheduled issue resolution.