Sr. Network Engineer
6 months contract (to hire possibility)
Long term need
100% remote in U.S. (Eastern or Central time zone working hours)
SMART IT People has a 6 months contract opportunity (with high probability of extension/conversion to perm) for a Sr. Network Engineer with our client in the Data Center industry. This role is responsible for designing and building our client's network. Looking for a SME in areas such as network routing, switching, firewall, network automation, and virtual environments.
Must have skills:
- 8+ years experience of hands-on network engineering and production support working in IT Operations
- 6+ years network security and best practices
- Production support of major firewall platforms Cisco ASA and Fortinet Fortigate (migration experience a plus)
- Must have router/switch experience with Cisco, Juniper and Arista (at least 2 of the 3)
- Service-provider BGP (within a large scale enterprise-level data center)
- Firewall experience with Cisco ASA and Fortinet (migration experience a pus)
- Broadcom/VMware NSX Data Center
- Coding for automation: Python (Ansible, Git or Jinja are nice to have)
- Experience using a ticketing system or project management work tracking, notation keeping, and internal communications
- Excellent communication skills (both written and verbal)
- Expert level understanding of core networking technologies including:
o Routing protocols: BGP, OSPF and IS-IS
o Routing and switching infrastructure from Cisco, Juniper, Arista.
o Layer 2 technologies such as Spanning Tree, STP, RSTP, EVPN, VXLAN, MPLS
- Experience with virtual environments, specifically NSX-T
- Expert level network troubleshooting skills
- Experience writing design and implementation documents, Visio drawings, process documents, etc.
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize and organize effectively, work on multiple projects simultaneously
- Ability to work both independently and with others
- Ability to operate in a fast moving, team-oriented, collaborative environment with tight deadlines
- Proficiency in using MS Office Suite and Windows-based computer applications
Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting large scale data center infrastructure environments.
- Experience supporting the networking requirements for Multi-tenant environments.
- 5+ years of support and design of load balancer implementations including:
- Experience and knowledge of network monitoring/management technologies (SNMP, Netflow, syslog, monitoring applications, etc.)
- Good knowledge of DNS
- Experience with various operating systems including Windows and various flavors of LINUX
- Advanced level industry certifications
Job Description:
- Provide Quality internal customer service surrounding the Company Values.
- Completes projects on time. Capable of breaking down large projects into logical components and implements them with attention to detail and required documentation.
- Provides clear and accurate communications with internal customers regarding the status of their requests in a timely fashion.
- Develops documentation of environments to accurately reflect the as-built information of the solution design and includes details of network connections and IP/port assignments, firewall configurations, monitoring components, exceptions from default, and special customer requirements.
- Will be considered to be SME for assigned projects and assist all other engineers on the team with questions regarding the environment, in order to ensure a smooth transition into EOC and/or Managed Service Operations.
- Responsible for writing and reviewing MOP’s as a part of the change management process.
- Provides operational support of the core network infrastructure as well as offer recommendations for improving overall network performance.
- Provide technical assistance to other engineers/teams.
- Participate in team stand-up meetings and provide accurate status of projects and next steps. Alert Network Manager and team lead to any obstacles or delays.
To apply, please send your resume in MS Word format to: alice@smart-itpeople.com with job title in subject line.