Senior Network Engineer (Cisco)

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Richardson, Texas or Raleigh Durham, NC.

Duration: 6 months contract to perm

Job Description:

Senior Network Engineer

We need a very technical, well-rounded candidate.

• Establish networking environment by designing network configuration, directing, implementing network infrastructure, defining, documenting, and enforcing standards.
• Maximize network performance by monitoring, troubleshooting, and reviewing network problems and outages, and collaborating with NWS partners and BU to recommend and drive changes for network optimization.
• Secures network infrastructure by defining and establishing policies, in conjunction with the Security and other partner teams.
• Able to look at complicated network systems to find flaws or room for improvement.
• Plan and coordinate the implementation of network technologies, solutions, and automations in support of defined requirements generated by internal customers, industry directions, and growth demands. Plan and facilitate highly complex network and automation upgrades and migration activities.
• Perform analysis and diagnosis of highly complex network and automation problems.
• Generates operational documentation including detailed test plan for highly complex networks.
• Assist with deployment and strategy of tools and related Network Management Systems. Help with developing tools set to manage and maintain enterprise network
• Produce method of procedures that demonstrate understanding of changes proposed and how the change will be executed with minimal service impact.
• Minimum Qualifications
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, a related field, or 10+ years of relevant work experience.
• Strong knowledge in TCP/IP internetworking, Routing, Switching, networking protocols and Routing protocols.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating Cisco hardware, including Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI, Cisco ASA firewalls, Cisco FirePower NGFW's.
• Virtualization technologies, both networking (VRF, VDC, N1kv) and understanding of compute (Linux, VMware, Openstack).
• Knowledge of Software development and Network Automation, basic knowledge on Python, REST APIs, Ansible and Terraform
• Knowledge on working with Linux, Docker, and Kubernetes.
• Experience with Agile methodology, and CI/CD.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise on Enterprise & Data Center networking technologies.
• Expertise on latest Cisco hardware and operating systems (Nexus, NX-OS and ACI, ASA, Firepower and FTD)
• Large-scale network infrastructure support skills and In-depth knowledge of network management, network availability, and network automation.
• Expertise in Network Automation, Software Development and CI/CD Pipelines.
• Expert level internetworking troubleshooting in a large-scale network environment.
• CCNP / CCIE equivalent is desirable..