What are the responsibilities and job description for the Datacenter Network Engineer position at The Cervantes Group?
The Network Engineer will be responsible for building, operating, and maintaining network devices installed in Washington DC while supporting related activities with a datacenter migration project. The ideal person will be able to configure routing protocols, provide network information, configuring ports, VLAN, extensions, etc., to support a datacenter migration.
Primary Duties & Responsibilities:
Create complete end-to-end plans including designs and/or upgrades for enterprise-wide LANs/WANs while clearly and effectively communicating with cross-functional teams.
Coordinate any modifications to the network environment with other IT departments and change management and develop Concepts of Operation, Requirements, Basis of Design, and critical design documents and drawings.
Perform fault isolation and resolution in a methodical, thorough manner.
Assist with life-cycle management evaluations and recommendations.
Participate in the designing and operations of networks using routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, route leaking, route redistribution, route-maps, etc.
Install, configure and maintain Cisco switches Catalyst 9000 Series and Nexus, stackwise, protocols like STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVST, R-PVST, PVST, VPC.
Participate in analyzing, assessing and documenting system configuration settings against established requirements for commonly used IT platforms.
Support project tracking by maintaining relevant log on boarding metrics and other relevant criteria while serving as a key team member for incident response related activities and collaborates with technical teams for security incident remediation and communication.
Education & Required Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree or experience in relevant field/equivalent work experience
4 years’ years relevant work experience with network engineering and datacenter operations
Previous experience designing and operating networks using routing protocols such as BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, route leaking, route redistribution, route-maps, etc.
Previous experience installing Cisco switches Catalyst 9000 Series and Nexus, stackwise, protocols like STP, RSTP, MSTP, PVST, R-PVST, PVST, VPC
WAN technologies, MPLS, DMVPN, VRF
Desire Requirements (Not Mandatory):
Valid Cisco certifications including, CCNA and CCNP are highly desirable