Network Engineer

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Overland Park KS (Onsite day 1)

Job Type: Long term Contract

Job Description:

Skills : Switching Routing Meraki SDWAN Palo Alto ASA F5 Infoblox with CCNA/CCNP valid certifications

• Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent required from an accredited institution. Will also consider three years of progressive experience in the specialty in lieu of every year of education
• At least 10 years of experience with Information Technology.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose troubleshoot and resolve incidents related to Cisco SDWAN services and solutions.
• New site build migration from MPLS Meraki SDWAN to Cisco SDWAN and Special Projects involving SDWAN technology.
• Work with customers via collaboration tools to tackle highly sophisticated technical issues.
• Be a member of a worldwide team.
• Engage in crosstechnology collaborations to help solve issues in heterogeneous network environments.
• Recreate customer technical problems within lab
• Contribute to knowledge bases and troubleshooting guides.
• Create automation and augmentation logic to speed up issue resolution
• Need to have Network Skills for L2/L3 operations (worked on CISCO HP Routers & Switches/Palo Alto/ASA Firewalls F5 LB)
• Provide Level 3 Network support and available for oncall for P1/P2 Incidents on weekends and off business hours)
• Excellent knowledge of best practices around management control and monitoring of Network infrastructure
• Great at organizing prioritizing and multitasking
• Monitor troubleshoot and escalate production problems per operations processes affecting the network infrastructure
• supervising responsibilities including interviewing and training/coaching team members.
• participate in project/technology transition
• Assist the team in resolving problem tickets.
• Help team to Create RCA whether you have been involved directly or indirectly
• Creation of network documentation from the existing infrastructure planned infrastructure as well as updating existing documentation.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Technologyrelated field of study (preferably with a network engineering/computer science) with >78 years of related work experience with progressively increasing responsibility.
• Experience in the following platforms: Variants of ISR routers vEdge cEdge vManage and Catalyst family
• Knowledge and experience in Protocols: VRRP and TCP
• Experienced with Viptela
• Certified in Cisco technologies
• You have at least 3 years of Customer Support Experience
• Solid understanding of network infrastructure and network hardware (Modern Enterprise Networks).
• You are knowledgeable in Linux Virtualization VPN or Security technologies.
• Understanding of Cloud technologies such as AWS AZURE
• Basic Understanding of IPSec TLS and DTLS
• LAN and WAN production environment experience.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills.
• Stressresistant ability to work under pressure and good prioritizing skills.
• Experience with routing protocols (OSPF EIGRP BGP).
• Understanding of X.509 Certificates usage workflow.
• Ability to quickly learn new or unfamiliar technology and products using documentation and internal resources and apply that knowledge in realworld situations.
• Skills to work independently as well as in a very diverse team environment.
• Ability to quickly learn new or unfamiliar technology and products.
• Candidates must be CCNA/CCNP and preferably CCIE or equivalent (Wireless / Routing & Switching / Service Provider)
• Database fundamentals (Neo4j Orient DB)
• Willingness and ability to teach and train others.
• Patience to adhere to Knowledge of best practices including maintenance windows and change control procedures.
• Ability to timeslice between multiple networks and multiple customer requirements.
• Strong analytical skills excellent communication skills (written and oral)
• Demonstrated ability in IT analysis methodologies (e.g. process flow definition data flow diagramming etc.)
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels of staff customers and other IT personnel