Network Engineer

Description:

Top Skills Details

1. 3-5 years of network troubleshooting experience: firewalls, data center fabric, campus VoIP, wireless, TCP/IP

2. Firewall experience: upgrading firewalls, firepower, ASAs, and understanding how to remove things from a firewall without damage.

3. Experience working in enterprise environments

4. Experience designing networks

Job Description

Essential Functions:

The Network Engineer’s role is to ensure the stability and integrity of in-house data, voice, and wireless network services. This is achieved by planning, designing, and developing LANs, WANs, and WLANs across the organization.

The Network Engineer will participate with the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of all network hardware, software, and communication links. This individual will also analyze and resolve network hardware and software problems in a timely and accurate fashion and provide end-user training where required.

Work as a part of the Network Engineering team assisting in the design, development, configuration, and maintenance of our customer’s corporate and store network and telephony systems.

Responsible for support, setup, and network documentation for any work done as part of a work assignment.

Assist in the utilization, performance, and successful daily operation of network data and telephony systems employed by our customer in the operation of the business.

Perform duties in non-network related areas of Network Engineering when needed and feasible.

Responsible for involvement in the highest levels of error correction and comprehensive troubleshooting.

Perform work during non-business hours as requirements or business needs dictate.

May recommend purchasing equipment to maintain the networked systems overseen by Network Engineering.

May monitor equipment function and health to ensure optimal performance in conformance with specifications.

Participate in an on-call rotation / Perform work during non-business hours as requirements or business needs dictate.

Log and report work as appropriate.

Perform other duties as assigned.

QUALIFICATIONS:

Cisco CCNA certification required, Cisco CCNP or beyond strongly preferred.

Extensive experience with enterprise networking technologies, tools & processes, including routing & switching, L4-7 traffic management (e.g., load balancing), firewalls, datacenter fabric, campus networks, VoIP, wireless, as well as networking protocols such as TCP/IP, IPSec, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, etc.

Proficient with Cisco network operating systems such as: IOS, IOS-XE, ACI, NXOS.

Understanding and implementation of network traffic analysis for troubleshooting (Wireshark, Netflow, etc.).

In-depth understanding of TACACS/RADIUS (ACS & ISE preferred).

In-depth familiarity with SolarWinds Orion and Cisco Prime (or other NMS) preferred.

Solid experience with firewall configuration and administration. Cisco ASA, FireSight, Firepower & Palo Alto strongly preferred.

Cisco WLC experience strongly preferred. Solid understanding of 802.11a/b/g/n/ac, RF, and WLAN fundamentals.

Experience with F5 LTM configuration and management desirable.

Ability to evaluate multiple vendor data products. Document test plans, assist in vendor selection, and develop engineering to deploy if approved.

DMVPN experience preferred.

Exposure to or experience with programming/scripting languages or tools used to automate networks (e.g., Python).

Cisco UCSX experience a plus.

SD-WAN experience a plus.

High School Diploma or equivalent is required; college degree is preferred.

Experience with Cisco Unified Collaboration strongly preferred.

Expertise working with industry best practices.

Analytical and problem-solving skills are required.

Must have excellent organizational skills.

Must possess excellent written and verbal communications skills.

Fluent in English.

Skills:

CCNA, Network engineering, Router, Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Troubleshooting, Data center, Routing, Firewall, WAN, Switches, LAN.

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

About TEKsystems:

Were partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. Thats the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.