Senior Network Engineer- Minneapolis MN(onsite)

Job Description

Job Description

Responsibilities

Adhering to SLAs.

Handling tickets / requests.

Troubleshooting technical issues.

Perform root cause analysis.

Defining processes and ensuring that the processes are adhered to.

Ensure maximum uptime according to the SLA.

Understanding of Multi-geo support environment.

Improves and maintains customer and its employee(s) satisfaction.

Oversees and is responsible for successful completion of installation configuration and migration.

Responsible for building / maintaining a test environment.

Suggests new technologies and design changes.

Monitoring and maintaining SLA requirements by the team members.

Mentoring / Training Team Members

Testing / Auditing / processes as required from time to time.

Identify Skill gaps and plan for training / knowledge updating.

Technology Knowledge

Router - Cisco, Juniper

Switch Cisco and Juniper

WLAN Access Points Cisco and Juniper Mist

WLAN Appliance Cisco and Juniper

Load Balancer - F5

SDN Versa SD-WAN

IPAM Infoblox / others

WAN Optimizer - Riverbed / others

Packet Shaper - Bluecoat

Terminal Server - Ion systems / others

Firewalls Checkpoint

Qualifications

Min 10 years of Network administration experience in large enterprise environment.

Should have Cisco and other industry standard networking certifications.

Extensive experience in System Fault Tolerance, Networking Designing, Business continuity and Disaster recovery

Expertise in the analysis, implementation, troubleshooting & documentation of LAN / WAN architecture and good experience on IP services.

Excellent communication skills (Verbal and Written)

Experience in representation in Change Advisory Board (CAB) meetings

In depth understand and troubleshooting skills for data centers Technologies (vPC, VDC, OTV, FEX)

Expert level knowledge of troubleshooting, implementing, optimizing and testing of static and dynamic routing protocols such as EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and ability to interpret and resolve complex route table problems.

Excellent hands-on experience on Cisco, & Juniper devices (Routers, Switches L2 / L3, Firewalls etc.)

Excellent hands-on in Cisco & Juniper Mist WLC / Access point

Handling escalated troubleshooting calls related with Routing, Switching, Wireless, Firewalls & VPN

Excellent hands-on experience on Cisco Nexus Series of switches, Juniper SRX series & Checkpoint.

Excellent hands-on experience on Wireless LAN technologies Cisco and Juniper Mist

Excellent hands-on experience on WAN Acceleration / optimization Riverbed

Network Management tools Solar Winds, Thousand Eyes, Splunk etc. or any other related tools.

Application Load balancers F5 Big IP LTM / GTM or any other related tools

Hands-on experience of implementing & Troubleshoot of Infoblox solutions such as IPAM / DHCP / DNS / vDiscovery

Hands on Experience on DHCP scope creation, DHCP option management understanding about servers, and windows platform.

Should have Experience in designing POA for complex Change / Project. knowledge in preparing RFO, RCA's, documentation, Knowledge Bank.

Experience in AWS or AZURE or any cloud technologies will be an added advantage.

Certifications

ITIL v3 / v4

CCIE -R&S or equivalent associate

CISSP, CISM, CCSP

OEM specific Expert level certifications (Cisco, Juniper, Checkpoint)