Cisco Network Engineer

*We are unable to sponsor for this permanent Full time role*

*Position is bonus eligible*

Prestigious Enterprise Company is currently seeking a Cisco Network Engineer. Candidate is responsible for the planning, design, configuration, implementation, testing and transition to steady state support of Infrastructure such as; network, telecommunication, server, storage or software across the enterprise. They will partner with peer engineering teams on best practices, process, standards, and configuration management. The Engineer evaluates vendor supplied hardware, components and software packages for fit and performance and makes recommendations to IT management. This individual modifies and/or debugs vendor-supplied utilities and packages. The Engineer maintains technical documentation for telecommunications, network, server, storage and system software applications. The Engineer diagnoses isolates and de-bugs hardware and software problems and performs problem resolution. The role is responsible for delivering solutions that are stable, secure, scalable and cost effective, as well providing escalation support to the administrators.

Technologies:

• Cisco Networking
• Routing and Switching
• Wireless experience
• Network and Cloud technologies
• Web Application Firewalls - Palo Alto and/or Cisco Firepower
• Anti DDOS protection
• Signature based intrusion detection
• Security groups in the cloud
• Knowledge of OSPF, IGRP, EIGRP, BGP's basic components, VLAN's and Multi-layer switching
• CCDP or CCNP equivalent Required
• Preferred skills: Strong Cisco ACI experience, Strong Azure and AWS networking architecture

Responsibilities

• Participate in on call rotation
• Coaches others
• Research, evaluate and recommend network-related software and hardware products and services
• Perform capacity and resource planning for network systems
• Assess network risks and perform contingency planning
• Provide input to supplier management team to help establish the telecommunications and network-related vendor service agreements
• Install, configure, and maintain telecommunications and network systems (hardware and software)
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical communications and network issues (tier two support)
• Provide input to supplier management team to help manage telecommunications and network-related vendor service level agreements
• Stay up-to-date on telecommunications, networks and network-related technologies
• Serve as a technical resource for infrastructure initiatives that require telecommunications or network expertise

Qualifications:

• Research, evaluate and recommend network-related software and hardware products and services
• Perform capacity and resource planning for network systems
• Assess network risks and perform contingency planning
• Provide input to supplier management team to help establish the telecommunications and network-related vendor service agreements
• Install, configure, and maintain telecommunications and network systems (hardware and software)
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical communications and network issues (tier two support)
• Provide input to supplier management team to help manage telecommunications and network-related vendor service level agreements
• Stay up-to-date on telecommunications, networks and network-related technologies
• Serve as a technical resource for infrastructure initiatives that require telecommunications or network expertise
• Bachelor's or Technical degree in related field or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of work experience in an Infrastructure or technical function
• Ability to create, read, analyze, and interpret technical diagrams and written procedures
• Ability to arrange processes or data in order of patterns specific to policies, processes, or system requirements
• Ability to analyze and solve problems, think outside of the box and grasp technical concepts
• Ability to combine information or data to find relationships among seemingly unrelated events
• Experience in telecommunications and networking environments, security, storage, server and other infrastructure technologies that match the infrastructure landscape
• Experience with design, implementation, configuration, tuning and optimization of technologies within our landscape

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Infrastructure engineering role as it relates to the hardware and software components that align to technologies supported
• Provide accurate and timely updates to work tickets, incidents, and outages
• ITIL Foundation certified