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Job Description
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. The only site they need people right now is Washington DC.
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From the hiring manager:
These have to be Senior Consultants meaning they have to have technical skills as well as communication skills. This is a Teir 3 support position but they have to be able to do design configuration and architecture too as when they are not doing support they will be doing project work.
We will need full time requested salaries upon conversion:
Sparkhire Questions
1. What is your experience with gathering network design requirements
2. What is your experience with LAN and WLAN technologies
3. What is the difference between a highlevel design and a lowlevel design
4. What is the difference between a threat a vulnerability and a risk
5. Describe the steps you would take to design and implement a network at a green field site.
6. Describe your experience troubleshooting and supporting Campus network environments.
7. Describe your experience developing documentation (e.g. HLD LLD System Configurations Implementation plans and Test plans).
Job Description
The operations support strategy of our customer is changing and we are looking for a team to help us provide the services to meet their changing needs.
The Senior Network Support Engineer is expected to be a Subject Matter Expert (SME) covering the application of campus network technology deployed across the Customer Group. This covers all customers businesses all Customers location (offices onshore plants offshore plants offices warehouses etc.) and various types of projects and support including capital projects and IT projects. The ideal person possesses strong skills surrounding the assessment planning design implementation and support of multiprotocol multivendor solutions.
The purpose of the network engineer role is be specialized in one or more vertical technology disciplines but will also be versed in other IT service delivery technologies. The network engineer performs testing analysis and restoration of failed production services to customers and users. The network engineer will be the key person in the support for all campus network elements.
The key accountabilities are:
1. Collect all Campus LAN discovery information for each environment to onboard them to day to day support program
2. Work with design team to produce design meeting requirements based on Customer standards
3. Develop deployment strategy and lead deployment including handover to operations by coordinating activities across suppliers IT teams and business stakeholders
4. Knowledge sharing and drive continuous improvement across the community
Requirements
For the services in scope (LAN/WLAN):
- Experience in the architecture migration integration planning and Day 2 support aspects of large complex LAN WAN and Internet environments.
- Experience in the planning design and deployment and support of LAN/WAN/ and IP architectures.
- Possess expert knowledge of VPN ISP and Cloud peering policy BGP ISIS OSPF and other IP and LAN/WAN protocol applications.
- Experience with network design incorporating quality of service CoS/QoS/DSCP mapping and structure fault resiliency symmetry and high availability.
- Familiar with network services including network elements such as load balancers WAN Acceleration DHCP DNS SSH SNMP.
- Experience developing detailed designs surrounding WAN/LAN and VPN network architectures.
- Experience in integration of next generation technology services.
- Collect and document requirements by specifying the needed functionality all the nonfunctional requirements and all dependencies (e.g. cabling construction or power needed)
- Resolving serviceimpacting events/incidents.
- Escalating incidents to Operations Management/Directors.
- Monitor ongoing operations and IT service infrastructure performance with applications set to anticipate IT service problems.
- Perform IT service problem isolation and determination.
- Respond to problems that are escalated by Service Desk Tier 1 and Tier 2 Engineers.
- Initiate corrective action within scope of knowledge and authority.
- Assist with network troubleshooting.
- Develop network capacity plans.
- Implement network bypass/recovery/backup procedures as required.
- Maintain knowledge of technology used as well as new technologies that may be used in the future.
- Create criteria for acceptance of IT services and/or managed elements for proactive monitoring and management.
- Validation of new IT services and/or managed elements in the IT environment.
- Acceptance/ coordination of new IT services and/or managed elements in the IT infrastructure.
- Use network diagnostic tools.
- Use and provide input to database(s) for problem and inventory control.
- Perform testing and maintenance activities as required.
- Serve as the customer interface for scheduling network changes and the coordination of the Change Management process with the customer.
- Share knowledge obtained and learn from others as part of a natural team across architecture portfolio design network engineers operations and service management amongst others.
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Technical Qualifications MANDATORY:
- Typical Years of Experience: 1216 leading and executing Campus Support project delivery IT operations or IT consultancy assignments to design develop deliver and support viable network solutions preferably in Corporate or similar industry preferred.
- A high degree of technical network knowledge on traditional (IP) networks and systems as well as IT solutions such as LAN WAN WLAN traditional route/switch routing protocols DNS DHCP Netskope ISE VLANs VRFs etc.
- Minimum Education or Certification: Bachelors Degree in Electrical Engineering Computer Science Telecommunications or equivalent work experience
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Skills MANDATORY:
- Mandatory: Design experience: requirement gathering HLD LLD EOL configs creation deployment experience.
- Must have 1 of the 3 highlighted: Design and deployment expertise in: LAN Cisco WLAN Infoblox DDIA NetSkope
- Mastering the OSI Model TCP/IP protocol suite (IP ARP ICMP TCP UDP SMTP FTP TFTP)
- Mastering of Layer2 Switching VLANs and Accesslist
- Mastering WiFi authentication security technologies Internet SDWAN MPLS and Voice over IP (VoIP)
- Mastering IP addressing and subnetting and routing concepts
- Switches: Full configuration and VLAN setup on Cisco switches
- Telecoms Industry knowledge with extensive experience in Networks and Telecommunications Testing and Commissioning
- Consistently delivered results in a matrix global virtualized organization
- Experience in working with suppliers
- Experience in negotiation skills
- Excellent communication skills verbal and written
- Proven experience in stakeholder and relationship management including external vendors
- Ability to translate technical requirements and specifications into easily understood business concepts and vice versa
- Proficient in IT infrastructure technologies:
- Routers Switches WAN LAN TDM VoIP Telecomm and other internetworking technologies.
- Thorough understanding of TCP/IPaddressing routing protocols and transport protocols (UDP and TCP).
- Must have expert level experience configuring and managing Cisco LAN / WLAN.
- Proficient in the use of network management tools primarily for fault management purposes.
- Complete understanding of escalation incident management and change management processes and procedures.
- Prior training in concepts of network and systems operations.
- Understands network performance analysis and capacity planning best practices.
- Thorough understanding of performance impact of network configuration options.
- Proficient in the operation and use of management tool set including fault configuration performance and security tools.
- Proficient in the operation and use of sophisticated diagnostic tools (i.e. Sniffer RMON tools etc.).
- Understanding of vendor and industry standards and procedures for their respective technical specialty.
- Able to provide technical leadership to less experienced personnel either individually or as part of a team.
- Possess good communication writing and interpersonal skills.
- Working knowledge of networkbased threats (various malware attack strategies common weaknesses virus vs. worm DOS & DDOS theory network attacks such as land teardrop Beck Buffer Overflow etc. back doors back orifice sub seven netbus common virus recognition).
- Working knowledge of SIEM vendors platforms and technology (McAfee ESM CSMARS Q Radar ArcSight Manhunt etc.).
- Experience with configuring and interoperating with other networking technologies (security appliances and tools proxies gateways etc.) desirable.
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Skills PREFERRED:
- Cisco router/switching/security certification at minimum CCNP
- Cisco WiFi design and implementation skills
- Python programming and app development skills for programmable networks
- Experience working in an (partially) outsourced environment
- Awareness of Agile and Scrum
- Service Management processes (Support Models Service Level Management Contract Management and Supplier Management)
Employment Type
Full Time
Key Skills
- Load Balancing
- Routing Protocols
- Network Administration
- Network Engineering
- BGP
- LAN
- Computer Networking
- IPsec
- OSPF
- Cisco ASA
- Juniper
- MPLS
