Job Title: Network Engineer Senior
Job Location: Dallas, TX
Job Type: Contract
Job Description:
• Provide support to various networking products and technologies such as routing, switching, firewall management, load balancing, WAN optimization and security
• Provide firewall configuration, management, validation and support
• Primary responsibilities will be addressing vulnerabilities with code updates or configuration changes as needed to maintain operational health.
• Identify single points of failure/risks to the business and provide a reasonable solution to remediate the risk
• Monitor and analyze network and related system performance and provide reports on a regular basis, identify hot spots
• Actively monitor and react to real-time network conditions to quickly identify and react to issues and outages
• Maintains and updates network infrastructure including but not limited to load balancers, WAN Optimization, Wireless Controllers and Access Points, and Solarwinds.
• Prepares and follows detailed documentation, standards and guidelines, for data and telephony environments
• Takes corrective action to improve system performance; travels to off-site locations to perform related work, if required
• Provide assistance and knowledge transfer to various IT departments on data, network, and voice related functions
Qualifications
• Associate or bachelor's Degree preferred
• CCNP certification preferred but not required
• 5+ years’ experience working knowledge of Network Technologies
• Experience in multi-datacenter, multi-site network topologies utilizing SDWAN and point-to-point WAN technologies
• Proficient with networking technologies such as GLBP, HSRP, QoS, OSPF, and BGP
• Ability to manage polices, object groups, VPN configurations and end user support
• Must have strong knowledge of multi context firewall environments
• Must have strong knowledge of common Cisco command line interface
• Ability to make good judgments, decisions, negotiate and problem solve
• Ability to understand and clearly communicate technical information to non-IT personnel
• Maintain a high level of knowledge regarding the clients computing environment
• Must demonstrate strong sense of urgency regarding solving end-user issues
• Efficiently and effectively solve problems regarding system errors or usage issues
• Must be able to minimize downtime by rapidly diagnosing and resolving problems
• Be able to track and document information regarding troubleshooting techniques
• Maintain a high level of teamwork and communication
• Ability to perform after-hours work for scheduled maintenance and unscheduled issue resolution.