Job Title : Network Engineer
Location: Blythewood, SC - Need local or who can come to onsite on day one
Duration: Long term
Job Type : Contract (We can consider - W2 / C2C )
Travel - potential to travel to other Client HQ and Field Office Locations using a State Vehicle.
Interview Face to Face interview Must
Responsibilities:
Required Education: Bachelor s Degree OR Four Years of Relevant Experience in Addition
to Required Years of Experience
DAILY DUTIES:
- Daily duties include managing, configuring, maintaining, and troubleshooting a statewide
- network infrastructure built upon a foundation of various solutions, such as Cisco/Meraki,
- Palo Alto, Fortinet/FortiGate, Certes, and Citrix NetScaler, and Trellix technologies.
- The Sr. Network Engineer will be proactive in their approach to monitor network
- performance, ensure efficient communication across the network, review and improve
- security compliance through cybersecurity best practices, and implement updates or
- changes to maintain optimal connectivity and secure version compliance.
- Candidate will be part of a multi-team environment and must have the ability to work as
- part of those teams and must have the ability to support multiple tasks at the same time, in
- a fast-paced, dynamic environment. The candidate will work closely with technical teams
- and should be able to provide knowledge transfer and informal training to peers where
- appropriate.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Perform the configuration, installation, maintenance, and upgrade of networking
- products.
- Troubleshoot network failures and identify network problems.
- Network analysis, design, installation, configuration, and support.
- Maintain network diagrams and other network documentation.
- Provide configuration, troubleshooting and problem resolution support.
- Troubleshoot and remediate issues in a complex, voice-integrated infrastructure.
Required Skills (Ranked in Order of Importance)
- 10+ years of experience with Cisco firewalls
- 10+ years of experience with Cisco routers
- 10+ years of experience with Cisco switches
- 10+ years of experience with Cisco VPN
- 10+ years of experience with Cisco administration
- 5+ years of experience with Palo Alto firewalls
Preferred Skills
- 10+ years of experience with knowledge of monitoring and tracing tools
- 10+ years of experience in core network architecture
- 10+ years of experience with advanced troubleshooting, routing, and switching
- 4+ years of experience with wireless networks
- 3+ years of experience with hybrid cloud infrastructure
PREFERRED CERTIFICATIONS: CCNA, CCNP