Network Engineer at Purchase, NY; Florham Park, NJ; NYC, NY; Conshohocken, PA; Charlotte, NC
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