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Senior Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

. Provides technical support for new and existing technologies in collaboration with other technical and management stakeholders

. Supports the setup of disaster recovery strategy for production environments

. Communicates status and/or concerns regarding technical and project tasks to IT, business, and project management staff

. Identifies and proactively resolves infrastructure/systems issues.

. Identifies and manages risks and issues as a subject matter expert for daily operational support and projects.

. Collaborates with technical staff to administer and support infrastructure environments.

. Acts as primary support owner of contact for all network infrastructure environments, collaborating with other project team members and management to:

o Define and manage the overall support process

o Configuration, deployment, and administration of networking systems including routers, switches, wireless access points, WAN and internet services.

o The individual will perform hands-on support of production LAN/WAN, and take ownership of all network documentation initiatives.

o S/he is responsible for the daily monitoring of the network. S/he reports on network and system capacity utilization and drives initiatives to improve the network

o As the lead network person, s/he is the third level of escalation and should be reachable when there is a network issue that requires senior attention.

o S/he collaborates with Systems Engineering team to design integrate and maintain an environment compliant with internal and external regulations.

Core Competencies:

. Excellent communications skills interacting with technical and business audiences

. Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals.

. Strong knowledge and expertise in local and wide area networking communications.

. Provide management, administration and support of Cisco routers, series 72xx, 28xx, 29xx, 38xx, 39xx.

. Must have considerable depth with routing protocols, EIGRP, OSPF and BGP as well as configuration of policy based routing.

. Provide management, administration and support for Cisco switches series 65xx, 4500, 3500, and 3750.

. Provide management, administration and support for Cisco Aironet series 1300 LWAP

. Provide management, administration and support for Cisco WCS and WLC appliances and modules.

. Must possess strong understanding of switching principles and protocols including, VLAN, STP, VTP, ISL, 802.1Q, Etherchannel.

. Knowledge of WAN and LAN architectures, MPLS, ATM, OC3, T1, E1, DS3, E3 and MPLS.

. Must possess strong understanding of QOS (Cisco autoQOS, Diffserv, WFQ, CBWFQ, CAC and RSVP).

. Must possess strong understanding of wireless technologies and protocols (802.11a, b, g and n).

. Must possess strong understanding of packet analysis tools and be proficient at reading network packet streams

. Must possess good hardware, network operating systems and troubleshooting skills

. Must possess strong understanding of network and system integration principles

. Must be familiar with network events monitoring and log management tools; What's Up Gold, SolarWinds Orion and Wireshark.

. Must be proficient in network best practices based on well known standards

. Provide management and support for internet services and related systems.

. Setup and provide support for VPN communications (IPSEC and SSL)

. Must provide continuous evaluation of the company's network infrastructure and initiate expansion or remediation projects to support growth and mitigate risks

. Must possess good project management and organizational skills necessary to coordinate across diverse IT and non IT groups to deliver projects on time and within budget.

. Working knowledge of Riverbed Steelhead and IP Telephony systems a plus.

. Working knowledge of Cisco ISE, Cisco NAC, Blue Coat Proxy Server, Packetshaper and F5 a plus.

. Working knowledge of Cisco ASA firewalls a plus.

. Willingness to provide oncall support for critical production issues

Additional Skills

. Bachelor's (or equivalent) degree in Computer Science or Information Technology (and/or equivalent experience).

. 5 to 10 years of LAN/WAN experience, design and troubleshooting in a fast pace production environment.

. Cisco certifications:

CCNP tracking towards CCIE preferred.

. Strong analytical and verbal/written communication skills.

. Proven mentorship and leadership abilities.

. Ability to work independently and make appropriate decisions or escalations.

. Ability to align Long term network vision with strategic business direction.

. Some travel may be required, valid Passport preferred.

Why Veredus?

Candidates work with a professional recruiter whose average experience is eight years in the industry. That means they have intimate knowledge of the Information Technology industry and market trends-who is in demand now and who will be next. Your Veredus Recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and desires. They also counsel their candidates in resume writing, interviewing, and career planning so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it. Additionally, Veredus provides the following benefits:

o Medical Benefits
o Consultant Lunches and Outings
o Dental Benefits
o Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit)
o Vision
o ATOP-Accrued Time Off Program
o 401K
o Consultant Web-Site
o Name Plates
o Care packages/Survival packs
o Dedicated Consulting Services Representative

Veredus recently was ranked as "Best Staffing Firms to Work for 2011" by Staffing Industry Analysts in a recent survey