Senior Network Engineers heavy firewall

California  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Immediate hire for several Sr. Network Engineers with extensive operational Firewall experience! These are contract opportunities located in Santa Ana, CA (Orange County) with the work able to be done remotely. Qualified individual must be polished and able to interact with all levels of technical personnel and have exceptional interpersonal and written/verbal communication skills.

DUTIES
This position will include interfacing directly with the internal and Client Strategic Planning Team.
This position will work in conjunction with the US based Data Network Engineering team as part of the daily project day to day support strategy. The engineer will also be assigned and responsible for Design, Configure and installing WAN, MAN and LAN facilities with using SmartHands Technicians that will be used as the transport, eyes and ears of this service engineer position at times.
This position will report to the Network Services Data Engineering Manager and will be responsible for a variety of activities and strategic efforts within the overall client's network. The candidate will interact with the customer and vendors to gather requirements, solutions to meet emerging business needs. The candidate will be responsible for documenting those requirements and working with the team (customer, vendors, and internal engineers) to design, develop and oversee implementations that meet the customer's requirements and maximize availability of those systems.
This candidate must bring a passion for voice/data networking strategy along with the ability to work under corporate direction for a multi layered business organization.

REQUIRED
Minimum 6 years Network design experience with ability to perform all of these functions remotely: Advanced Configurations, Turn-up and Troubleshooting on CISCO hardware
Minimum 3 years Voice Network experience and knowledge of data networking including TCIP, UDP, RTP OSPF, EGRT protocols, hands on knowledge of Firewalls, Accelerators, SLB's VLAN's Routing and Switching at an advanced level
Requires extensive and strong hands-on experience with ASA Firewalls and ideally, McAfee Sidewinder
Cisco Routers: Experience with ASR 1002 and 1004
Cisco Switches: Experience with generic suite to include 4500 and 3850 series
Knowledge of data networking including TCIP, UDP, RTP EIGRP, OSPF protocols
Research, recommend, and develop implementation of new technology products
SLA Management
Ability to analyze, design and collaborate multiple layer network architectures
Knowledge of multiple networking protocols
Knowledge of protocol Analyzers
Data Network Capacity Planning
Network Management Systems knowledge
Operational Monitoring tools knowledge including SNMPv2/v3
Product life cycle planning
Product solution management

EDUCATION
Bachelor of Science in Engineering or Computer Science or Technical certification in Computer Science or related telecommunications field is also acceptable. Work experience in lieu of education will be considered.

CERTIFICATIONS
CCNA highly desired
CCNP highly desired

BACKGROUND CHECK REQUIRED
Candidate could be required to pass a very stringent 10 Year Federal background and drug test including a polygraph test with the local City Police Department and Justice Department.

Start date
ASAP
From
GTN Technical Staffing
Published at
03.09.2015
Project ID:
977409
Contract type
Freelance
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