Network Engineer

Location: ONSITE- Chicago or Remote

Duration: 6 months

Role: Network Engineer

Descriptions:

Will work with Infrastructure leadership, other IS teams and business units to engineer, recommend, plan technical projects to meet network reliability, tactical, performance, or controls needs.

Analyzes business needs; gather requirements, designs, installs, troubleshoots, and supports technical solutions in a world-class infrastructure.

Develops and documents models, plans, diagrams, illustrations, and procedures in support of engineering activities and network related business initiatives.

Participates in regular meetings and conference calls with customers and IT staff to help qualify opportunities and technical solutions.

Creates capital expenditure (CAPEX) requests and tracks the progress of hardware & software orders.

10+ year's experience in network engineering. Experience network engineering and operation with an enterprise organization preferred.

5+ years of experience leading project teams and/or mentoring junior engineers.

In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.

Experience working with SDN solutions such as Cisco ACI, VMware VNX Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.

Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):

Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture

F5 LTM/GTM

Cisco UCS & Nexus

Cisco ACI

Cisco WAAS, WCCP

Cisco security solutions

Cisco ISE

Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions QoS, prioritization of voice and video Network automation Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.

Scripting skills are a plus

Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.

Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.

Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation

Keyword:

Skills: Palo Alto~Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure(ACI)~CNS_Network Security_Cisco Experience Required: 6-8