Network Engineer

Sr. Network Engineer

Location: ONSITE - Norcross, GA 30092

Duration: 6 Month+ Contract

Mode of Interview: Zoom Video

Rounds of interview: 2 to 3

Primary Function of Position:

• Partner with various IT teams, facility groups, and technology vendors to deploy and decommission network infrastructure globally - Switches, Firewalls, Proxies, SDWAN, Wireless Controllers / Client, UPS, PDUs, structured cabling, etc.
• Work with various facility project managers to setup new large-scale offices, campuses, labs, etc. based on business requirements.

Essential Job Duties:

This position has responsibility and authority to:

• Provision and maintain health of Network infrastructure in different data centers and campuses by working with local vendors and carriers – Internet, MPLS, P2P, etc.
• Administer Cisco (Routing, Switching, Wireless) and SDWAN infrastructure.
• Adhere to IT access-management and change control procedures.
• Deep dive with design teams to update runbooks and maintain templates for the rest of the team to follow standards.
• Partner and work with different IT groups to obtain knowledge in new technologies, setup, and architecture related topics.
• Document new operational issues and solutions from field and transfer knowledge to team members.
• Collaborate with team members and mentor junior staff to execute the IT strategy in a cost effective and timely manner.
• Stay abreast of industry best practices in risk management techniques and integrate new methods and tools as appropriate.
• Support in deploying other areas of technology (Network Access Control, Firewalls, VPN, and SNMP based monitoring).
• Support Network and Firewall OS patching, monitoring and alerting.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 10+ years of support experience in Network and IT Security domain.
• Cisco or similar Certifications – Cisco CCNP or similar.
• SDWAN, Cisco Routing, Switching (Catalyst and Nexus), Cisco APIC, Palo Alto Firewalls, Network Proxies, SDWAN, Enterprise Wireless deployment.
• TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, VPN, IPS, SDWAN, DMVPN, NAC and 802.1x deployment.
• Experience in Python scripting, Ansible automation or similar technology is a huge plus.

Education:

Bachelor's Degree: or equivalent experience.

About the Company:

Veterans Sourcing Group