Network Engineer
Houston TX
Duration: Long Term
Duties & Responsibilities
- The Network Administrator is responsible for all phases of network infrastructure including configuration implementation and troubleshooting.
- Support of users Help Desk and System team members while serving as the escalation point for infrastructure issues.
- Perform enterprise network security operations and support wired and wireless connectivity.
- Implement network design and security requirements based on business strategies and requirements.
- Meets with the stakeholders to gather data about the business needs of a project.
- Work with the Sr. Network Engineer developing requirements for LAN WAN VPN Wireless routers switches firewalls and related security and network devices.
- Implement network technologies meeting best practices in security and network design.
- Configure install and troubleshoot new and existing infrastructure to support the enterprise. Escalate technical troubleshooting issues.
- Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
- Update job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging security practices and standards participating in educational opportunities reading professional publications maintaining personal networks and participating in professional organizations.
Preferred/Required Skills & Experience
- CCNA CCNP Preferred
- 5 years of professional network engineering handson experience in a medium to large organization of 1000 employees spread across large geographic areas.
- Work experience in supporting network infrastructure.
- Demonstrated operations experience with complex routed IP networks layer two/three switches advanced routers firewalls LAN/WAN networking hardware and protocols.
- Must have Strong IP data networking knowledge with practical network troubleshooting experience.
- Experience in supporting multisite data and VOIP in an SDWAN/IWAN environment.
- Expertise in IP LAN/WAN principles.
- Proven experience with voice/data circuits and VPN connectivity.
- Familiar with video conferencing wireless technologies Datacenter technology experience with
- Cisco Nexus switches and familiarity with VMWare Virtualization technologies and network storage protocols.
- Working understanding of routing protocols BGP and OSPF
- Packet capture and analysis.
- Strong analytical skills.
- Strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills.
- Must successfully manage multiple tasks while prioritizing workload with attention to detail to meet deadlines. Afterhours availability and oncall rotation are required on an asneeded basis.
- Demonstrate the ability to function as a strong team player.
- Strong bias for action and can work independently and interact effectively across functions and levels to achieve alignment and buyin for strategies and plans and drive achievement of goals.
- Resultsoriented to ensure delivery of appropriate products and services in an accurate complete and timely fashion.
Should have working experience with the following or equivalent technologies:
- Experience working with diverse carrier circuits MPLS DIA T1 broadband satellite and Cellular circuits.
- Cisco Catalyst Switch family () for campus LAN switches. And Nexus 5K and 9K for Core switching and SAN connectivity.
- Devices to support SDWAN infrastructure and configurations
- S2S VPN and remote user connectivity through AnyConnect
- Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto firewalls IPS Security Intelligence.
- Support security technologies such as Dot1x Cisco ISE Tacacs Umbrella/OpenDNS Carbon Black for endpoints and SumoLogic.
- Experience with cabling and device installation.
- Wireless Preferred Aruba wireless.
- Monitoring tools such as Solarwinds NPM SAM IPAM NCM and LEM