Job Title - Network Engineer Location - Purchase, NY (Onsite) Hire Type - Full Time (Permanent) Detailed:
- This individual will provide on-going day to day support for global data network.
- This role will serve as level 3 support for all network related support tasks and troubleshooting.
Role Responsibilities:
- Design, develop and deploy LAN/WAN network infrastructure
- Responsible for 3rd level troubleshooting for all LAN/WAN alerts and issues
- Responsible for maintenance of all monitoring and reporting systems
- Produce and maintain documentation related to all systems developed/deployed
- Perform on-call duty for non-business hours support as per shift assignments
- Perform administrative tasks pertaining to time entry and status reporting
- Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
- Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
- Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
- Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
- Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
- Select and implement security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company's security team
- Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
- Excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Able to communicate with the customer and be able to present solutions to peers
- Open for 24x7 availability
- Conduct technical trainings to internal resources
Required Technical Qualifications (In Order Of Level Of Need)
- Excellent network troubleshooting skills.
- Must be able to quickly identify and resolve network related issues in smallest possible time.
- Excellent communication skills. Must be able to clearly interact with the customer, understand the requirements and communicate with the off-shore team.
- Must be able to participate and represent the team in change and incident management meetings.
- Experience with SDWAN - Silver Peak preferred.
- Experience with Next Gen Firewalls - Cisco Firepower preferred.
- Troubleshoot routing loops.
- Troubleshoot asymmetric routing & STP loop issues.
- Implementation of operational changes & coordination with project team for project related changes.
- Configuring/troubleshooting Cisco ASA, IPS
- Configuring/troubleshooting Cisco ISE
- Configuring/troubleshooting wireless - Cisco WLC preferred
- Configuring/troubleshooting routing protocols - EIGRP, OSPF, BGP
- Configuring/troubleshooting LAN switching - VLAN, VTP, STP, EtherChannel
- Configuring/troubleshooting quality of service
- Configuring/troubleshooting TCP/IP protocol suite
- Configuring/troubleshooting application protocols - HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, SMTP, SNMP, SSL etc.
- Configuring/troubleshooting network security - IPSec/SSL VPN/Cisco AnyConnect, AAA architecture, TACACS+, RADIUS, 802.1x
- Cisco Catalyst & Nexus 9K/7K series of switches
- Configuring/troubleshooting Cisco IOS, NX-OS software
- Configuring/troubleshooting of application load balancers
- Experience with firewall cloud services - Zscaler preferred
- Working on all applications such as SAP, Citrix, Portal, etc
- Analyzing the outputs of all the tools and making recommendations example: High CPU utilization on core device at data center
- AWS, GCP, Azure Cloud experience a plus
Education Requirements
- Minimum 10 Years of Domain Experience
- Active CCNP Certification Required