Network Engineer || Plano, TX

Job Description

Job Title: Network Engineer
Location: Plano, TX

Duration: 6+ Months

Job Description:
• 8+ years of hands on network design/support with Cisco products.
• Ability to apply principles, theories, and concepts, as well as knowledge or related networking disciplines
• Full understanding of WAN/LAN/Wireless internetworking including design elements including cost versus performance tradeoffs, protocol interoperability, network architecture development and requirements for testing / proof of concept.
• Advanced knowledge of platform operation systems (router platforms, LAN, WAN, and router protocols) and how they interact with the network
• Advanced knowledge and troubleshooting skills to support Cisco ACI and Riverbed WAN Optimization solutions.
• Advanced skills in gathering requirements and designing/implementing/supporting network solutions
• Advanced skills and knowledge and adherence to Change Management processes
• Excellent communication skills, both written and oral
• Strong customer service skills; interfaces with customers, end users, partners and associates
• Additionally, the candidate must work well within a team, and adapt easily to change.
• Good troubleshooting skills
• Customer facing skills
Mandatory:

Routing:

BGP
VRF
EIGRP
MPLS
DMVPN
Ipsec-VPN: EzVPN, GRE, DMVPN, VTI, GETVPN
GET VPN
Easy VPN
Switching:

Layer 2 &3 VLANs, VLAN Trunking
VTP
Cisco VSS
Nexus
Stack switches
Redundancy protocols – HSRP
IP Services:

NAT
SNMP
IPSLA
Desirable:

SDN
1. Cisco ACI
WAN Optimization
1. Riverbed
Wireless
Cisco Wireless

Job Responsibilities:

• Interact with a large variety of clients to provide network technical support for complex network related incidents, changes and projects.
• Gather requirements, analyze technical networking issues and the develop options and recommendations.
• Plan, design, install, and maintain wireless, local and wide area networks, load balancers including the recommendation of system software and hardware.
• Research, analyze, plan, and develop hardware and software requirements.
• Coordinate, install, and maintain appropriate systems software and hardware.

Mandatory Skills:

• Bachelor’s Degree
• CCNP Enterprise must