Network Engineer || W2 only

Job Title : Network Engineer

Mode- W2 Contract only

Location :: New York City(Hybrid)

Duration: 6+ Months

Experience: 8+ Years

LinkedIn should be created before 2020

Job Description:

• Experience:

• 7+ years of experience supporting daily operations in routing, switching, firewalls, wireless networks, and VPN technologies.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with Cisco Nexus and Catalyst Switches (6xxx, 5xxx, 4xxx, 29xx, 19xx), Cisco Routers (7500, 7200, 4000, 3600, 2600), Cisco VPN 3000, and related devices.
• 7+ years of experience with hands-on configuration of Cisco switches (C9K, 68XX, 4XXX, 29XX), Cisco routers (C8XXX, ISR 29XX, ISR 4XXX), Cisco ASA 55XX firewalls, and Meraki MS devices.
• 4+ years of experience working with large LAN/WAN infrastructures and knowledge of communication protocols, Cisco equipment, and networking technologies.
• 2+ years of experience creating network diagrams, floor plans, and schematics using Visio.
• 2+ years of experience responding to emergency calls in the evenings and on weekends for WAN/LAN outages.

• Skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues clearly to a non-technical audience.
• Detail-oriented and process-focused with strong problem-solving abilities.

Key duties include:

• Design & Implementation: Oversee the design, implementation, and operation of network infrastructure hardware and Data Center infrastructure environments to DOE Network Standards. Ensure that the final network designs align with documented specifications.
• Vendor Coordination: Work with the integration vendor to ensure and enforce adherence to DIIT network standards throughout the engineering and implementation phases for network infrastructure equipment.
• Documentation & Reporting: Provide planned network documentation, coordinate installation activities, track installations, and document them to ensure best practices are followed. Provide appropriate reports, showing work completions, network analysis, and configurations.
• Collaboration & Troubleshooting: Interface with other DIIT engineering teams and resolve technical issues that arise during implementation, operations, and testing in piloting a solution.
• Process Tracking: Track appropriate processes and documentation and ensure that the final design mirrors the documentation.
• Network Management: Lead, develop, configure, maintain, support, and optimize all new and existing network hardware to enable school or data center integration with the production network environment. Recommend network hardware for DIIT infrastructure environments.
• Support & Monitoring: Support deployment, monitoring, inventory control, and reporting. Create configuration templates and automate processes for network refreshes. Oversee network installation quality and verify operational readiness.
• Quality Assurance: Provide Quality Assurance to deployment projects and day-to-day operations to upkeep schools and central infrastructure operations.
• As-Built Verification: Validate and verify the network integrator's work, ensuring it adheres to DOE network standards.