Network Engineer

Location: Riverwoods, IL

Salary: $55.00 USD Hourly - $60.00 USD Hourly

Description: Our client is currently seeking a Network Engineer

Location: Hybrid role (Riverwoods, IL)

Description:

Responsibilities

Monitors the Data Network for performance degradation, connectivity issues, system events, and alerts. Updates and manages tickets through resolution with vendors and internal support groups.

Tests, analyzes, performs corrective actions, and restores network equipment and services in a timely and accurate manner to eliminate/reduce application impact. Provides timely notifications to management/outage team and escalates tickets to appropriate internal and external management as needed.

Responds to engagements from the Command Center to assist with network analysis, availability, and drive incident resolution.

Carefully plan and implement data network configuration changes, hardware/software upgrades and more

Performs Preventative Maintenance tasks and creates, maintains, updates NOC support documentation.

Plan and drive remediation of known vulnerabilities on Network Devices

Review internal NOC processes and drive improvements & efficiencies to diagnose issues quickly and manage overall workload effectively.

Mentor junior engineers on networking fundamentals

Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to our led technology communities.

Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work.

Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms.

Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability.

Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events.

Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities.

Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices.

Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies.

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here's what we need from you:

Bachelors - Computer Science or related

3+ Years - (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related

Preferred Qualifications

Strong experience in Cisco Nexus Datacenter Concepts / Platforms including 2k, 5k, 7k, 9k

Strong and independent working knowledge and experience with routing protocols OSPF, BGP etc.

Strong and independent working knowledge and experience with Spanning-Tree, HSRP, VRRP, tunneling protocols, spine-leaf architecture, and Cisco ACI.

Experience with QoS operation and configuration

Experience in the following Datacenter technologies: FEX, VDC, VPC, Fabric-Path, VRF, OTV, LISP, VXLAN

Independent and proficient working knowledge with network applications such DNS, DHCP and NTP

Independent and proficient working knowledge with application content delivery technologies such as F5 (LTM/GTM) and Citrix NetScaler

Fundamental knowledge and experience with virtualized compute environments, i.e., Hypervisor, UCS, ESX

Experience with compliance working with change control processes and adherence to standards

Experience and independent with managing moderate to complex network projects (planning, organizing, and managing timelines / objectives)

Strong verbal, written and documentation skills

Bonus Points If You Have:

CCNP Certification

CCIE Certification

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