Network Engineer III

Location: Newport Beach, CA
Salary: $60.00 USD Hourly - $70.00 USD Hourly
Description: Our client is currently seeking a Network Engineer III
This role is hybrid in Newport Beach, CA

How you will contribute:

• Implement products, platforms, software, hardware, or appliance-based solutions related to network and network security.
• Solve unique or complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. Take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
• Interface with management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements.
• Multi-site datacenter design, migrations and buildouts with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Multi-site WAN/MAN/SDWAN design, implementation and support.
• Design, implementation and support of cloud environment connected to the enterprise network (direct, VPN)
• Design and manage the rollout of various network infrastructures with necessary capacity planning, performance tuning, and configuration optimization
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
• Maintain network security across the global enterprise; analyze networks for security threats. Monitor organization's networks for security breaches and investigates violations when they occur.
• Use network tools for administration, maintenance, automation, and visualization reporting
• Develops technical documentation describing the deployment, configuration, and management of network infrastructure.
• Participates in IT security audits. Responds to existing audits and ensures required controls are implemented as required.
• Builds strong relationships outside of IT to understand business needs. Communicates complex details in a way that people can understand. Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the products, empathizing with and understanding user needs.

The experience you will bring:

• 10 years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
• B.S/MS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Extensive Experience of Cisco ACI and buildout/migration of multi-site datacenters.
• Expert knowledge of AWS/Azure network solutions.
• Advanced technical skills and experience with the following L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as ACI, IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x. Be familiar with Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and NXOS.
• Understanding of various platforms - NetScaler, Riverbed, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus).
• Must have an understanding of open-source and other tools to assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
• Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, attention to detail

What will make you stand out:

• Cisco Datacenter certification
• AWS certified solutions architect certifications is a plus.
• Knowledge of Juniper and HPE routing/switching equipment is a plus.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

• Cisco ACI experience
• Expert knowledge of AWS/Azure network solutions
• Expert knowledge of AWS/Azure network solutions.
• Extensive Experience of Cisco ACI and buildout/migration of multi-site datacenters.
• Multi-site WAN/MAN/SDWAN design, implementation and support
• Participates in IT security audits. Responds to existing audits and ensures required controls are implemented as required

Nice to Have:

• AWS certified solutions architect certifications is a plus
• Cisco Datacenter certification
• Knowledge of Juniper and HPE routing/switching equipment is a plus.

Contact:

This job and many more are available through The Judge Group. Please apply with us today!

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