WAN Network Engineer

Qualifications

Job Title: WAN Network Engineer

Location: St Louis, MO

Duration: 7+ months

Experience with MPLS is very important.

Overview

A growing global company is seeking a talented and motivated WAN engineer to join the WAN engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the team that is responsible for planning, designing, engineering, and supporting an advanced carrier class WAN environment in an enterprise setting. This fast-paced environment will challenge your knowledge of BGP, MPLS, QoS, Multicast, Cisco hardware, Cisco IOS/XR, JunoOS, and other complex network technologies. In this role, you will be an important member of a critical team for our firm.

Responsibilities:

• Drives and "owns" specific areas within projects
• Schedules and Implements Network changes via Network Change Instructions
• Cleary communicates issues and concepts
• Understands what our business is
• Assists in providing 3rd level support
• Continuously improves specific areas within the team's remit
• Assists in evaluating and testing new technologies
• Assists in developing and publishing standards, designs, and other documentation

Qualifications:

BS (or higher) in relevant field: Bachelor's degree (3 or 4 years) or foreign equivalent in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, or related field.

Mandatory Experience/Skills:

Please quantify all required experience, for example, 3 years of experience in:

• Knowledge and hands-on experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP
• Experience with Cisco ASR, CRS, 7600, 6500, & 7200 platforms, Juniper Experience
• Knowledge of carrier technologies such as SONET, SDH, DWDM, and Ethernet services (MEF) as well as the ability to work with carriers for troubleshooting purposes
• An understanding of MPLS technologies such as L3 VPN, L2 VPN, and any the following: VPLS, MPLS QoS, MPLS TE and mVPN
• An understanding of multicast technologies such as PIM Sparse mode, PIM Dense mode, and PIM SSM
• Connector's types & Fibre types
• MTU throughput testing, Jumbo frames
• Minimum of 3 years' experience ideally working in a carrier network or a large enterprise network in a design, engineering, or architecture role
• Good written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues
• Team player with proven track record of successful project delivery.

Additional Information

Contact: Phani

Email: phani(at)scoutet(dot)com

Phone: 609 - 888 - 6753