Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer
Location:- Plano, TX (On-Site) - Travel to other facilities is possible, but likely minimal
Job Type:- Long Term Contract
Interview:- 60 minutes via Zoom video
Should be local to Plano, TX

Duties & Responsibilities
The Network Administrator is responsible for all phases of network infrastructure, including configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting. Support of users, Help Desk, and System team members while serving as the escalation point for infrastructure issues. Perform enterprise network security operations and support wired and wireless connectivity.?

• Implement network design and security requirements based on business strategies and requirements. Meets with the stakeholders to gather data about the business needs of a project.?
• Work with the Sr. Network Engineer developing requirements for LAN, WAN, VPN, Wireless, routers, switches, firewalls, and related security and network devices.
• Implement network technologies meeting best practices in security and network design. Configure, install and troubleshoot new and existing infrastructure to support the enterprise. Escalate technical troubleshooting issues.?
• Enhances department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests, exploring opportunities to add value to job accomplishments.
• Update job knowledge by tracking and understanding emerging security practices and standards, participating in educational opportunities, reading professional publications, maintaining personal networks, and participating in professional organizations.

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Preferred/Required Skills & Experience

• CCNA, CCNP Preferred
• 5 years of professional network engineering hands-on experience in a medium to large organization of 1000 employees spread across large geographic areas.
• Work experience in supporting network infrastructure.
• Demonstrated operations experience with complex routed IP networks, layer two/three switches, advanced routers, firewalls, LAN/WAN networking hardware, and protocols.
• Must have Strong IP data networking knowledge with practical network troubleshooting experience.
• Experience in supporting multi-site data and VOIP in an SDWAN/IWAN environment.
• Expertise in IP LAN/WAN principles.
• Proven experience with voice/data circuits and VPN connectivity.
• Familiar with video conferencing, wireless technologies, Datacenter technology, experience with Cisco Nexus switches, and familiarity with VMWare Virtualization technologies and network storage protocols.
• Working understanding of routing protocols ?BGP and OSPF
• Packet capture and analysis.
• Strong analytical skills.
• Strong interpersonal and written/oral communication skills.
• Must successfully manage multiple tasks while prioritizing workload with attention to detail to meet deadlines. After-hours availability and on-call rotation are required on an as-needed basis.
• Demonstrate the ability to function as a strong team player.
• Strong bias for action and can work independently and interact effectively across functions and levels to achieve alignment and buy-in for strategies and plans and drive achievement of goals.
• Results-oriented to ensure delivery of appropriate products and services in an accurate, complete, and timely fashion.

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The Network Analyst should have working experience with the following or equivalent technologies.

• Experience working with diverse carrier circuits MPLS, DIA, T1, broadband, satellite, and Cellular circuits.
• Cisco Catalyst Switch family (9500,4500,3850,3750) for campus LAN switches. And Nexus 5K and 9K for Core switching and SAN connectivity.
• Devices to support SDWAN infrastructure and configurations
• S2S VPN and remote user connectivity through AnyConnect
• Cisco Firepower and Palo Alto firewalls, IPS, Security Intelligence.
• Support security technologies such as Dot1x, Cisco ISE, Tacacs, Umbrella/OpenDNS, Carbon Black for endpoints, and SumoLogic.
• Experience with cabling and device installation.
• Wireless - Preferred Aruba wireless.
• Monitoring tools such as Solarwinds NPM, SAM, IPAM, NCM, and LEM

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Environmental & Physical Demand
Work will primarily be conducted in an office environment; travel may be required to district and field offices and oil and gas production facilities, with the occasional need to wear personal protective equipment. The position requires communicating information frequently and managing an office environment's possible stress. Work may include being stationary for long periods, with occasional movement about the office. The ability to lift to 35 pounds is required. The position requires constant operation and viewing of a computer screen and other office machinery.
PPE will be provided if needed