Job Description
Job Description
Job title: Network Engineer/SME
Location: New York
Job type: Contract
Summary: Responsible for supporting the planning, development, implementation, and maintenance of network software and equipment to IT Network and communications infrastructure. Provides recommendations to technical personnel and IT Leadership. The Network Engineer may be required to workday, evening or night shifts and weekends, holidays, and other overtime work. Hours to be worked are determined by job requirements and qualifications. Personnel may be responsible for being on call in the case of an emergency.
Education and Work Experience
- BS in Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications or Operations Research and 5 years of experience required, or 10 years relevant work experience in a multisite data center environment required.
- Experience in network systems engineering, network design, and management and operations required.
- Experience with Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls, with a focus on security, efficiency, and intrusion prevention/detection.
- Broad knowledge of Palo Alto specific implementations of SDWAN and associated services.
- Broad knowledge of UCaas/Contact Center implementation Telco integration, resiliency, migration and support.
- Detailed knowledge of TCIP/IP network addressing including both IPv4 and IPv6 implementations.
- Expert knowledge of Frame Relay, TDM T1, Ethernet switching, TCP/IP, SNMP, Layer 2,
- 802.1Q, Layer 3, routing protocols to include OSPF & BGP, as well as MPLS, VPLS, and VRF.
- Experience with troubleshooting complex and detailed network challenges including Asymmetric routing, out of order packets, unicast and multicast issues, Latency, spanning tree, retransmission, and fragmentation issues.
- Experience with troubleshooting and design of complex switching environments and technologies such as the Cisco Nexus switch line.
- Experience with troubleshooting and design of detailed layer 2 and layer 3 network environments that include VLANs, trunk and access ports, Port Channels, EtherChannel, VPCs, VTP, CDP, LLDP, MTU, SPAN, port mirroring, etc.
- Experience with troubleshooting tools such as Sniffer, Wireshark, Ethereal and other networking tools, and the ability to follow packet and data flows throughout the capture.
- Ability to design, implement and troubleshoot advanced routing environments and concepts including, but not limited to, OSPF, EIGRP, route leaking, policybased routing, route tagging, distance vector.
- Ability to design, implement and troubleshoot device security protocols such as TACACS and RADIUS and their inclusion in an AAA based device security environment. This should include privileged modes and readonly access.
Certification
- CCIE Certification desired
- JNCIP Certification desired