Network Engineer

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Network Engineer

The candidate will implement and enforce network policy, proactively monitoring performance and provide resolution of 2nd & 3rd level support incidents. Manage and maintain network hardware and software. Oversee installation, configuration, maintenance and troubleshooting of various network components. Monitor and analyze network for resiliency and performance. Understand of firm and industry best practices and business requirements to gather data for analysis by conducting interview and independent research. Act as technical project manager and responsible for project related communications to stakeholders. Fully resolve problems with firm systems and technologies. Including root cause analysis in a 24/7/365 environment. Participate in making decisions and determining actions independently and expediently to eliminate risks and ensure the continuity of business. Participate in DR and network security solution development. Actively pursuing new technologies to improve effectiveness and efficiency of firm systems. Act to support all technical projects arising from the project Management office (PMO). Determine and decide when to escalate problems to vendors and ensuring resolution and reporting of resolution to stakeholders. Maintain documentation of network, processes, procedures, troubleshooting guides and change management logs. Participate in an on-call schedule rotation. Flexible to work outside of normal business hours as required. Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is preferred. Should have 7+years of experience. Experience managing converged enterprise networks in a large, global multi-office environment is required. Other Product and/or industry certifications are a plus. Cisco Certifications is a plus. Systems Knowledge of WAN transports & Services (MPLS, PTP, SONET, Internet – Multicarrier & Redundancy), Routing & Switching (Cisco), Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Firewalls (Cisco, Palo), Wireless (Cisco, Aruba, Aerohive), SDWAN Optimization (Citrix, SilverPeak), Network / Application tools (Compuware, Sniffer, WireShark), General Network (IP schema, Video, Cabling, DHCP), Network Management and Monitoring tools (Solarwinds, LogicMonitor, LiveAction), Network and Application Load balancers (F5, Citrix Netscalers) and Video Conferencing Systems (Cisco, Polycom) is required. Wide Area Network transports including MPLS is a plus. Knowledge of common protocols such as SNMP, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, NTP LDAP, KERBEROUS, RADIUS and FTP is preferred. Working knowledge of VPNs and enterprise gateway devices is required. Knowledgeable of Cisco Communication Manager (CUCM), messaging, presence and conferencing solution is required. Knowledgeable of Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE), Cisco Unity Messaging, and Cisco Call Manage Express (CME) is required. Knowledge of Cisco router, switching and wireless hardware technologies is required. Knowledge of WAN/LAN traffic requirements for a MS windows/Citrix based applications environment is required. Experience ensureing compliance to security standards and policy is required. Enterprise class routing protocols BGP, OSPF is required. Enterprise LAN technologies like VLAN, Etherchannel, Spanning-Tree is required. Converged Networks carrying voice, video and data and Traffic prioritization, including Class of Service and QoS is required. SDWAN optimization / traffic shaping technologies is required. Network monitoring and reporting tools is required. Use of network troubleshooting tools including network sniffers is required. Alerting, monitoring and response disciplines is required. Data center operations and disciplines is required.

Additional Information

Job requisition ID: REQ-017819

Company info

Fragomen.
2301 West Big Beaver Road Suite 225
Troy
Michigan
United States 48084
Website : https://www.fragomen.com/