Network Engineer

Department/Project high-level description:

Main responsibilities that the candidate will be responsible for:

• Interfacing with various Prime teams, vendors, clients and others for the implementation and support of networking products and services
• Install and support various Data Center and Enterprise routing and switching infrastructure (maintain edge, core, aggregation and access layer Network devices).
• Contribute to Data Center and Enterprise LAN/WAN environments and overall network future infrastructure architecture and support strategy.
• Work with Service Providers to document and install data network circuits
• Install and support the LAN and WAN environment at all Prime Locations
• Collaborate with other staff and departments to meet department and project deadlines.
• Collaborate with IT Security departments to mitigate security vulnerabilities.
• Document network infrastructure changes
• Use ITIL process and procedures for change, incident and problem management of perimeter network environments.
• Other duties as assigned

What are the MUST have skills that you are looking for:

Palo Alto

Perimeter experience

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
• Cisco certification or equivalent experience
• 5+ years extensive technical experience in a variety of Networking areas, including:
• Design, implement and support of :
• WAN Technologies
• Cisco ISR/ASR Hardware
• Cisco IOS Hardware
• VPN on Cisco routers
• Cisco Nexus Hardware
• Routing technologies (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP)
• Carrier grade QoS and Enterprise QoS
• Experience with other IT infrastructure technologies including network, and security perimeter technologies in a converged voice/data network environment.
• Proven troubleshooting skills
• Ability to work equally well in team or independent situations

Preferred Qualifications:

• WAN Providers & Circuit Delivery
• Cisco ACI
• Automation
• WAN Technologies (MPLS)
• VPN on Cisco Routers
• Cisco ISR/ASR Hardware
• Cisco IOS Hardware
• Cisco Nexus Hardware
• ACI/SDA/NSX-T
• regulatory compliance requirements (such as HIPAA and PCI)
• local and global Load Balancing
• DNS, DHCP, NTP, IPAM
• NAC (Network Access Control) Platforms
• PKI, RADIUS, RSA, TACACS
• auditing and assessment tools such as Tufin and Qualys
• Network monitoring and troubleshooting tools
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and business analysis skills.

Success Metrics; list any identifiable measure of project success and how they will be measured:

• Complete projects on time and per the success criteria
• Excellent communication and procedural planning/testing methodology
• What are the technologies and the depth of the technologies that a candidate must have in order to be successful in this role?

  Skills Required:

• Self-starter, organized, and can shift between technologies quickly
• Data Center route/switch (non-ACI)
• Cloud Interconnects
• Cisco Internet Routing
• Some Design experiences
• Must have Build experience
• Palo Alto/F5/Inboblox

Required Skills : Word

Basic Qualification :

Additional Skills :

Background Check :Yes

Drug Screen :Yes

Notes

Selling points for candidate :

Project Verification Info

Candidate must be your W2 Employee :Yes

Exclusive to Apex :No

Face to face interview required :No

Candidate must be local :No

Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No

Interview times set : :No

Type of project :Development/Engineering

Master Job Title :Net/Sys Eng: Cisco

Branch Code :Minneapolis