Senior MSP Network Engineer
Senior MSP Network Engineer
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USD 115000 - 135000
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Managed Service Provider Senior Network Engineer
Location: Remote (Must be a US Citizen)
Experience: 5 Years of Experience
Salary: 115K-135K Plus Benefits
Contour Data Solutions is looking for a person wanting to make an immediate impact in a rapidly changing fast paced environment. The position is part of a Managed Services Technology Team that has responsibility for internal and customer facing solutions. The Network Engineering Team is responsible for the Network infrastructure related tasks which supports customer applications in a 24x7x365 environment. Technologies include strong knowledge in firewall switch router and security related technologies as it relates to the network. The team focuses on performance tuning automation security design implementation and break/fix resolution of enterprise class solutions. Applications include third party solutions in addition to a diverse set of proprietary systems hosted on Windows and Linux servers. Position requires an experienced highly motivated network engineer with a minimum of five years experience in design implementation and support of a large infrastructure consisting of Cisco Palo Altoand Foritnet as well as a variety of hardware including working knowledge of servers SAN switches and SAN storage. This individual will be required to provide input into new and existing projects both from a technical perspective as well as from a business perspective
Job Description:
Certified Network Professional who will be responsible for the day-to-day- activities change controls and maintenance on all networking equipment that includes patching replacing and troubleshooting. Serve as escalation and mentor to the Contour Operations Center.
Design:
- Creates engineering design to meet the business and operational objectives for business continuity solutions.
- Defines standard engineering designs templates processes and procedures for implementing projects that follow existing architectures for large complex projects.
- Defines new engineering designs templates processes and procedures for implementing projects that require new architecture patterns
- Proactively utilizes knowledge of the business unit and objectives to maximize the efficiency of the design
Assessment & Strategy:
- Provides subject matter expertise to maintain the appropriate lifecycle for the technologies in scope including technology risk refresh migration and retirement
- Analyzes system performance modifying parameters to improve throughput and retirement
- Monitors resource usage making required adjustments
- Responsible for accurately estimating and planning activities within the domain to provide the necessary input into the project managers for developing an end to end plan.
- Establishes and maintains strong collaborative relationships with internal and external strategic partners as well as critical IT infrastructure service providers. With administrative direction leads the evaluation and selection tools
- Evaluates tools and makes cost-conscience tool recommendations
- Identifies key areas for improvement to align to strategic objectives
- Analyzes industry best practices and previous project executions
- Make recommendations in regards to architecture and infrastructure planning to leadership to refine and enhance current methodology
Support:
- Resolves issues related to the coordination control design support and operation of specialized components of a network whether data voice or video such as Local Area Networks (LANs) Wide Area Networks (WANs) and voice systems.
- Plans configures tests maintains troubleshoots and tunes network infrastructure such as routers switches gateways firewall systems multi-function switches virtual private networks and network security devices.
- Leads resolution of issues related to the coordination control support and operation of specialized components of a network whether data Local Area Networks (LANs) Wide Area Networks (WANs) and wireless
- Participate in and/or lead projects of medium to high complexity
- Leads on-call production support activities using the technical knowledge and capability to handle all problems that may arise
- Proactively puts procedures in place to prevent and reduce the severity of outages
- Oversees or performs the installation and testing of upgrades working with the systems and applications teams
- Conducts updates of management information systems including asset management time tracking and other systems
- Available to be on call 24/7 on a team rotating schedule once assimilated into the team
Qualifications:
- MSP Experience required
- Bachelors degree in engineering computer science management information systems or related field preferred. Equivalent work experience may be substituted.
- 3 years of experience of design implementation maintenance and troubleshooting of large complex IP-based networks.
- 3 years of experience in Network Capacity Planning Performance. Monitoring / Management and Network Design Architecture
- 3 years of experience in routing protocols like (OSPF BGP EIGRP VRRP IP HSRP MPLS BGP for dual ISP etc. protocols) and set up load balancing using BGP for dual ISP
- 3 years of experience with layer-2 layer-3 and/or layer-4 network protocols and technologies TCP UDP HTTP/HTTPS REST SOAP NFSv4.x SMB
- Cisco CCNP / CCIE certifications desired
- Experience designing configuring and deploying network switches/routers. Including expertise in QoS/CoS traffic shaping and bandwidth throttling
- Advanced knowledge for the implementation and support of Quality-of-Service (QoS) and MPLS-based networks is required. Voice-over-IP (VoIP) a plus.
- Strong understanding of Cisco routers and switches in a corporate infrastructure
- Strong understanding of network security practices and tools. Network Security (firewall policies rules best practices VPN IPSEC GETVPN)
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full-Time
