What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Network Engineer position at KForce?
DescriptionKforce is working with a client in search of a Senior Network and Telecommunications Engineer with at least 8 years of hands-on experience with a multisite Cisco network infrastructure, to join their team! This position is full time, direct hire and hybrid on-site 3-days a week near Vauxhall, NJ.The Senior Network Engineer will manage many technical areas with a focus on the following :
- Cisco switches, routers and firewalls
- Fortinet firewalls and SD-WAN
- Kemp load balancer
- Internet and WAN circuit topology and design
- High availability network design, configurations and implementations
- Ubiquiti wireless access points and controllers
- Telecommunications and the migration to cloudDuties and Responsibilities :
- Support, install, and improve existing network infrastructure
- Gather requirements from business stakeholders
- Design and architect network solutions
- Research new technologies and methodologies
- Develop and document specifications, researching vendors and solutions for comparison, and estimating initial and recurring costs for these solutions
- Help the business leverage the Internet-of-Things for strategic growth
- Act as an escalation point for other members of IT
- Work with 3rd party service providers to address outages and disruptions
- Respond to business-critical emergencies, both during and after business hours
- Determine action plans to address issues, communicating proactively with service users and stakeholders
- Develop and implement procedures for management, including reporting of performance KPI's
- Perform regular compliance audits of systems
- Develop network lifecycle plans
- Document and maintain the current environment
- Manage and negotiate with key network and telecommunications vendorsRequirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required
- Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE) a plus
- 8 years of experience in the IT industry designing, implementing, and supporting a multisite network infrastructure
- Awareness and familiarity with ITIL / SDLC concepts and principlesIn depth and hands on experience with :
- Fortinet and Cisco ASA / Firepower firewalls (CLI / ASDM), Nexus and Catalyst core and edge switches, ISR routers
- Kemp load balancers
- Content Filtering (Barracuda and Fortinet)
- BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, VxLAN, IP SLA, QoS, HSRP / VRRP, VRF, Spanning-Tree, 802.1p / q, vPC and other high availability configurations and advanced network implementations
- Firewall ACL, NAT, Policy and Route based L2L VPN configurations, SD-WAN
- Nagios, PRTG, NetFlow, SNMP and other network monitoring tools
- Troubleshooting IP / TCP / UDP using tools / techniques such as Wireshark, Cisco CML / VIRL, Traceroute, Firewall Packet-tracer, Syslog (Sumo Logic)
- Network Taps and Packet Brokers
- Ubiquiti WLAN APs, controllers, 802.1x
- Visio, Excel, Word, Confluence, etc.
- Understanding of carrier transport technologies such as MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, SDH
- Understanding of traditional analog and digital telecommunicationsJob TypeDirect HireCompensation150000 - $170000
Salary : $150,000 - $170,000
