Role: Network Engineer
Duration: Long Term
Location: Hybrid 3 days onsite
Location Garden City NY; Morristown NJ; New York City NY; Purchase NY
Note: CCNP certified
Summary
Seeking a Network Engineer who will be responsible for design implementation and support of network technologies across global landscape with a high degree of focus on security and next generation connectivity. The individual will also provide ongoing day to day tier 3 support for the global data network in response to related support tasks and troubleshooting.
Responsibilities:
Design develop and deploy LAN/WAN network infrastructure.
Responsible for 3rd level troubleshooting for all LAN/WAN alerts and issues.
Responsible for maintenance of all monitoring and reporting systems.
Produce and maintain documentation related to all systems developed/deployed.
Perform oncall duty for nonbusiness hours support as per shift assignments.
Perform administrative tasks pertaining to time entry and status reporting.
Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g. routers switches firewalls load balancers VPN QoS).
Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs patches hot fixes and security configurations.
Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
Monitor system resource utilization trending and capacity planning.
Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure.
Select and implement security tools policies and procedures in conjunction with the companys security team.
Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
Open for 24x7 availability.
Conduct technical trainings to internal resources.
Technical Qualification:
Minimum 58 years of domain experience CCNP certified.
Possess excellent network troubleshooting skills. Must be able to quickly identify and resolve network related issues in smallest possible time.
Must be able to clearly interact with the customer understand the requirements and communicate with the offshore team. Must be able to participate and represent the team in change and incident management meetings.
Experience with SDWAN Silver Peak preferred.
Experience with Next Gen Firewalls Cisco Firepower preferred.
Experience in troubleshooting routing loops.
Troubleshoot asymmetric routing & STP loop issues.
Implementation of operational changes & coordination with project team for project related changes.
Configuring/troubleshooting Cisco ASA IPS.
Configuring/troubleshooting Cisco ISE.
Configuring/troubleshooting wireless Cisco WLC preferred.
Configuring/troubleshooting routing protocols EIGRP OSPF BGP.
Configuring/troubleshooting LAN switching VLAN VTP STP EtherChannel.
Configuring/troubleshooting quality of service.
Configuring/troubleshooting TCP/IP protocol suite.
Configuring/troubleshooting application protocols HTTP HTTPS FTP SMTP SNMP SSL etc.
Configuring/troubleshooting network security IPSec/SSL VPN/Cisco AnyConnect AAA architecture TACACS RADIUS 802.1x.
Cisco Catalyst & Nexus 9K/7K series of switches.
Configuring/troubleshooting Cisco IOS NXOS software.
Configuring/troubleshooting of application load balancers.
Experience with firewall cloud services Zscaler preferred.
Experience with Data Center Nexus environment (ACI preferred).
Working on all applications such as SAP Citrix Portal etc.
Analyzing the outputs of all the tools and making recommendations example: High CPU utilization on core device at data center.
AWS GCP Azure Cloud experience is considered a plus.
Citrix NetScaler load balancer Cisco FTD (FW) Aruba SDWAN and Azure Cloud all considered a plus for experience.