Cloud Network Engineer (US Citizen & Green card)

Computech Corporation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions company is seeking a Cloud Network Engineer in San Diego, CA. This position involves providing technical support for networking services, managing projects, and optimizing network performance. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of hands-on networking experience and a strong background in Cisco technologies. Excellent communication skills and a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent are required. The role offers a contract duration of 4 months.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on networking and troubleshooting experience in large environments.
• Strong understanding of operational strategies for IT production environments.
• Experience with network configuration automation (Pearl/Python/Bash).

Responsibilities

• Provide support of networking services for Cloud Operations.
• Deploy and maintain networking hardware and solutions.
• Manage small to medium-sized projects and assist in resolving issues.
• Monitor and tune network infrastructure to identify issues.
• Prepare periodic reports related to bandwidth capacity.

Skills

TCP/IP

VLANs

Spanning Tree

BGP

Cisco networking technologies

Troubleshooting

Network monitoring tools (Solarwinds, Wireshark)

F5 Big-IP products

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/Science

Current CCNP and/or CCDP

Tools

Solarwinds Orion

Wireshark

F5 Big-IP

Job description

Contract

Company Description

Teradata is seeking a Cloud Network Engineer experienced in supporting a 24x7 mission critical, customer facing, production environment. This position will provide technical expertise and guidance in the design, deployment, and operation of LAN, WAN, VPN and load-balancing technologies within a Cloud Infrastructure. Organization Relationships: The Cloud Network Engineer will report to the IT Tech Systems Manager, Cloud Services. The Cloud Network Engineer will have contact with other IT staff in Cloud Services and Teradata Labs. This engineer must communicate in a professional manner with employees at all levels of the organization.

Job Description

Job Title: Cloud Network Engineerr
Location: San Diego, CA
Duration: 4+ Months contract

Key Areas of Responsibility:

• Provide day to day functional support of networking services for Cloud Operations.
• Deploy and maintain new and existing hardware in support of current customers and future growth. This includes networking gear OS updates and interacting with high level support and vendors.
• Manage small to medium-sized projects and/or portions of large projects and assist in resolving issues and planning for new network services and connectivity.
• Respond to incidents/requests regarding network performance and configuration changes including an off hours, level 2, on-call rotation.
• Maintain network documentation, run-books, diagrams, and network assets in the configuration management database.
• Implement (and act as the key technical liaison for) the site to site connectivity (over VPN or dedicated circuit) between Cloud Customers and access to Teradata Cloud Services.
• Develop guidelines and procedures for LAN/WAN management including process and efficiency improvements.
• Monitor and tune network infrastructure to identify and eliminate issues and potential bottlenecks.
• Prepare periodic reports related to bandwidth capacity and utilization.

Qualifications

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• Extensive knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, Spanning Tree, multicast, VRF, QoS, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP as well as Metro Ethernet and MPLS connectivity/architecture, and application layer firewall implementation and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of sniffer analysis, WAN optimization appliances, and network monitoring tools/suites such as Solarwinds Orion and Wireshark.
• Practical experience troubleshooting issues related to LAN, WAN, VPN, and Load-balancer infrastructure in a Cloud environment.
• Broad technical knowledge of Cisco networking technologies and platforms to include Nexus 7/5/2k, ASR 1k and 9k, vPC, OTV, and VDC configuration.
• Strong understanding of IT production environments, operational strategies and mission critical systems to include IT internal controls and regulatory compliance.
• Experience with Disaster Recovery.
• 8+ years of extensive hands on networking and troubleshooting experience in large, distributed corporate environments.
• 5+ years with F5 Big-IP products (LTM, GTM, ASM) and Palo Alto gear.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Results oriented team player who will work towards meeting team commitments.
• A passion for improving processes and a commitment to customer satisfaction.
• Good organizational and time management skills to work on multiple tasks/projects simultaneously.
• Experience with network configuration automation (Scripting with Pearl/Python/Bash or DevOps tools like Chef/Puppet
• Ability to mentor technical operations staff in appropriate technologies, as required.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Experience with Linux administration.
• Experience with Windows Active Directory.
• Knowledge of Teradata platform.

Qualifications

Minimum Educational Level/Certifications/Citizenship

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering/Science or equivalent degree and/or work experience.
• Current CCNP and/or CCDP
• US Permanent Residence

Minimum Work Experience and Qualifications

• Relevant Work Experience: 8-10 years
• Career Level: Experienced (Non Manager)

Physical Demands/ Environmental Conditions:

• Manipulation of computer keyboard is essential.
• Installation and removal of networking equipment within data center and data closets.

Travel Requirement: Up to 7.5 %