WAN Network Design Engineer

Georgia  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Senior Network Design Engineer

Alpharetta, GA 30009

Contract - C-P potential

$60-70/hr W2 (Please - no 3rd party C2C)

Job Summary - (Role Summary)

As a Senior Network Design Engineer assigned to the Global Network Engineering team, this position will have significant responsibility for the architecture, design, engineering, creation and develop maintenance of the most complex network infrastructure/environments and is utilized as the top level technical escalation point for reviewing the work of other less experienced technical personnel. Support the department's strategies by providing technical solutions by ensuring the development and implementation of companywide short and long term WAN, Data Center (hosted, public and private cloud based), corporate networks covering data, voice, video and WiFi strategies for state of the art multi-user, multi-functional systems. Provide expertise in conducting project reviews to ensure solutions meet business objectives that optimize best use of network infrastructure and accessibility of data. Provide expert technical direction, support and training to appropriate technical staff.

Running Proof Or Concepts. Attend meetings, work on gathering design/architecture requirements
ITIL cert nice to have. CCIE also nice to have but not required
Will offer flex hours, once settled in may consider some remote

Core Routing - OSPF and BGP

Prefer with Nexus - ok if they don't

Projects: (80-90% project based)
- working on WAN redesign for higher global network. Routing exp is helpful.
- come up with design and implementation for WAN
- discovery and design and implementation

Strong Cisco Routing and Switching - Design and engineering background (Not looking for anyone currently in operations)
Must have worked in network engineering area.
Must be very proficient in WAN, the protocols they use heavily are OSPF and BGP.
Must have Nexus 5k, 7k, 9k (they also have 2k, but its ok if person doesn't have)
Must have F5 load balancer ( BIG-IP LTM and F5 BIG-IIP ) experience (right now there's only 1 dedicated resource to it)
Big fan of certs! Prefers them to have CCNP

Nice to have:

- VOIP
- Any Cisco Firewall
- Checkpoint is a +
- VTC (any video conferencing)
- Cisco CUCM (Call Manager) exp
- Next Gen Network experience, SDN experience (HIGHLY HIGHLY preferred) - moving in this direction now.

Other nice to have Experience:

- SDN experience is a huge plus!
- Must have Policy Based routing experience
- Must have Route policies experience using route-map
- Must have Security Controls using ACL experience
- CCVP is most desired certs, any additional Cisco certs are preferred

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Experience:

8-10 years progressive work related experience in architecture, engineering, design, administration, programming and support of all networking technologies, including LAN, WAN, Application Delivery (Load balancer), Firewall technology, multi data center traffic management (GTMs). Expertise and experience to include, but not limited to technologies including Voice, Video, Conferencing, Data, WiFi, Wired, etc. with demonstrated mastery or technical and business knowledge and understanding of multiple disciplines/processes related to the position. Typically leads/mentors less experienced staff or complex projects in area of expertise.

Technical Skills and Knowledge:
Demonstrated knowledge of network and infrastructure architectures and development methodologies
Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of structured analysis and technical design techniques.
Demonstrated skills in evaluating telecom products and their adaptability. Ability to negotiate with the carriers in deploying appropriate network technologies.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Demonstrated proficiency in establishing and maintaining a high level of customer trust and confidence in the networks engineering team's knowledge of the customers' business needs.
Demonstrated proficiency in adapting to rapidly changing technology and apply it to business needs.
Demonstrated project management experience in organizing, planning and executing large-scale projects from conception through implementation.
Demonstrated ability to lead, direct and influence less experienced personnel in the creation of efficient and scalable databases.
Demonstrated effective verbal and written communication skills for the purpose of providing information to clients, vendors, senior management and staff.

Specialized Technical Skills - (experience in one or more disciplines required):
LAN/WAN Industry standard hardware, operating systems, routed and routing technologies;
Proficiency in MPLS deployment, management of VRFs and Internet technologies.
Knowledge/Experience in deployment and management of VoIP solutions, video conferencing (including webex) and WiFi network solutions
Deep rooted network management, monitoring, troubleshooting skills
Application Delivery Methodologies including industrial strength load balancing technologies (F5 - Viprion; NetScaler)
Multi Data Center load management and traffic management (Global Traffic Management)
Knowledge of Firewall technologies (Cisco, CheckPoint, Palo Alto)
Private Cloud and Public Cloud offerings and technologies (including vBlock knowledge)
Database Administration for vendor applications (ie Oracle, DB2)
Telecom products evaluations and carrier management experience
Knowledge of SDN, SD WAN

For immediate consideration, please email resume.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
6months +
(extension possible)
From
Synergis
Published at
06.09.2017
Project ID:
1412120
Contract type
Freelance
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