Network Engineer

Job Title - Network Engineer

Technology - Network, Hardware

Location - Alpharetta, GA

Duration – Long term

Visa Type – Non H1’s – USC/GC/EAD

Employment type – C2H

Rate - $50.00 Max

REQUIREMENT DETAILS,

What You Will Do,

• Provide detailed schematics of their design and work with other engineers to provide an overall topology.
• Responsible for participating in technology decisions along with Senior Engineers as they relate to the overall network architecture and associated technologies - including the IP design & possible  scheme creation to resolve IP & route conflicts, switching, routing protocols, load-balancing and route selection technologies, etc.
• Work with other teams such as system architects, system administrators and hardware support groups.
• Responsible for making solid design recommendations on subjects that include redundancy, diversity, fail-over technologies and expandability as it relates to the network architecture, as well as providing direction and recommendations concerning touch-points.
• Establish test criteria and validating the technology and/or product.
• Responsible for testing, deployment and training operations personnel as part of a turn-over
• Properly document designs, etc. with the help of a technical writer

Skills and Experience Needed

Required:

• Minimum 5-6 years’ experience in support of a complex mission critical facility and associated teams
• Extensive experience with IP designs, in a multi-tenant and multi-data center environment with fail-over & high available capabilities.
• Solid experience with IP design ,NAT, IP routing protocols (EIGRP & BGP), Cisco products, Cisco IOS and similar operating systems.
• Experience with server load-balancing systems including F5 LTM/GTM
• Experience with Cisco Catalyst and Cisco Nexus products
• Experience with network automation technologies
• Experience with designing high-available networks (system and component level redundancy)
• Experience with layer 2 technologies
• Experience with establishing vendor and/or services election criteria as well as documentation and presentation
• Experience with technology or feature testing
• Experience working in a structured
• Experience with creating, updating and coordinating  of implementation plans for all network related items.
• Experience providing connectivity to systems from one data center to another, involving IP design, NAT scheme, routing scheme and overall architecture.
• Knowledge of firewall technology

Desired:

• Ability to document designs and test plans
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) and/or Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) certifications
• Experience with data center networking in a virtualized server environment (VMWare)

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree highly preferred or related experience