Only USC/GC
Webex with hiring manager and Final interview onsite with hiring manager
Location: 100% on site in St. Cloud, MN location (HQ) ( Yes, relocation candidate is really great )
Contract Type: 6 months CTH
Conversion Salary: Conversion Salary around $135k
Need LinkedIn
Important Skills
- Technical Solution Delivery and strong coordination exp.
- Team Player
- Communication/Collaboration - verbal/written
- Documentation – planning, designs, process, and/or standard operating procedures
They are Cisco shop
Sr -level network engineer
CCNA/CCNP/CCIE Experience Required
This is a lead role
Certifications: CCNA/CCNP/CCIE experience required; Must be CCIE level – can be lapsed but needs to understand
Total Years of Experience Required: 10+ Years
Notes: They also like to hire veterans – lots of their people are ex-military
Summary
Job Description
TheNetworkEngineer assists with ensuringthe stability, integrity, performance, and sustainability of the in-house enterprise systems/network infrastructureand all sister-company systems. This is achieved by applying advanced knowledge, skill, experience, and best practices in planning, designing, and developing infrastructure technologies across the enterprise as well as assisting in the installation, monitoring, maintenance, support, and optimization of those technologies.
Education And Experience - Technical College or Bachelor’s degree in networking technologyor equivalent work experience.
- Minimum of 5years’ experience with Cisco networking (hardware, software, protocols, etc.) with emphasis on large-scale enterprise LAN network deployments and operations
- Experience in an enterprise environment supporting over 300 switches, routers, and wireless access points
- Experience in configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting Cisco networking equipment:
- Catalyst 3850 and 9300 switches
- Catalyst 8300 and ISR4000 series routers
- ASA and FTD firewall appliances
- WLC 5520, model 1560, 3700, 3800, 9100 series AP’s0
- Experience in configuring, troubleshooting, and supporting related networking systems:
- Virtual F5 load balancers
- DHCP, DNS, WAN carrier technologies
- Basic Windows and Unix server operations as related to networking
- Basic Voice technologies
- Google and Azure cloud technologies
- SD-WAN architectures and leading technologies
- Working knowledge and hands on experience with: BGP, EIRGP, OSPF, Nexus vPC and OTV, DMVPN, Multicast, route-maps, QoS, Cisco Wireless technologies including AP’s in FlexGroupconfigurations.
- Experience in configuring, troubleshooting and supporting network operating systems and tools:
- CLI: Catalyst IOS-XE, Nexus NX-OS, WLC AireOS, FTD-FXOS
- GUI: ASDM, FMC, Solarwinds, Wireshark
- Demonstrate ability to support complex, enterprise level LAN/WAN networks
- Hands on experience with 802.11 wireless technology and installation best practices
- Ability to demonstrate familiarity with Network management systems, reporting and capacity planning
- Experience in enterprise networking configuring and maintenance in a 24x7x365 SLA production environment
- CCNA/CCNP preferred but not required
- Willing and able to travel infrequently, including overnight travel.
- Collaborate with security team to reduce risk to data and systems.
Essential Duties And Responsibilities
- Applystandard operating procedures (SOP’s) and control processes for the Networkcapability and monitors to ensure compliance and consistency with the SOP’s.
- Assist with and ensure to align systems/network infrastructure goals to organization needs (technical analysis and alignment).
- Execute at a high level, hands-on technical knowledge of Cisco enterprise networking technologies (including core switching, Nexus and OTV, ASA and FTD firewalls, edge and core routing, managed wireless, vLANs, DMZs, intrusion detection/prevention, network load balancing, etc.)
- Assist withcapacity planning and performance tuning of enterprise-level systems/network infrastructures.
- Monitor and troubleshoot such technologies to meet established service-level agreements and organizational goals.
- Assist in the maintenance and updating of a SOP documentation file/manual.
- Assist with reporting on key performance indicators to upper management.
- Apply data and security governance and their application inside the enterprise.
- Conduct in-depth research into issues and technologies as required, and able to document current/future states during upgrades or system implementations.
- In support of Company’s culture, all employees are expected to consistently, effectively and reliably perform in accordance with the Company’s values as set forth in our core competencies and behaviors (All Employee Competencies and Manager Competencies).
- Position may require work responsibilities outside of normal business hours and infrequent travel may be required.
- Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.
Physical Demands
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential function of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear.
- The employee is frequently required to sit, walk, and reach.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision to a computer monitor
- May involve lifting up to 40 lbs. to move and install hardware and peripheral equipment.
