Lead Consultant - Infrastructure Management | Network | Network Security Firewall & Policies

Expedite Talent Solutions; Milwaukee (WI); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Expedite Talent Solutions is seeking a Senior Network Support Engineer to provide onsite technical support, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise network infrastructure in Milwaukee. You’ll work with Cisco routing, switching, and security solutions to ensure network stability, performance, and compliance with security policies.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years of hands-on experience in Cisco networking, firewall policies, and infrastructure management, and will serve as SME for all managed

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of overall IT experience with focus on network infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on with Cisco routing, switching, and security solutions.

Responsibilities

• Provide onsite network support including troubleshooting, deployment, and maintenance.
• Install, configure, and manage Cisco routers and switches.
• Act as SME for managed network operations and security-related activities.
• Collaborate with customer network engineering to develop enterprise design and strategy.
• Identify opportunities for network/projects through coordination with engineering leads.
• Perform monitoring, diagnosis, and timely incident resolution.
• Maintain WAN/LAN configurations, QoS, and security policy enforcement.
• Coordinate with vendors and service providers for escalations.
• Support Cisco SD-WAN implementations and FTD firewalls as needed.

Skills

Cisco Networking Technologies

Infrastructure Management

Network Security

Firewall Policies

Job description

Description: Job title - Senior consultant, Network support engineer. SME, Infrastructure Management | Network | Network Security Firewall & Policies

Work location - Milwaukee WI 53208

Is it Hybrid, onsite or remote position - Full time Onsite Client office

Tentative Start date - ASAP

Contract duration - 12 Months

Vendor rate - ***

Minimum years of experience needed in the required skills- 10 Plus

Minimum Over All Work Experience Required - 10 Plus

Domain - Cisco Networking

Any certification required - No

Mandatory skills required : Infrastructure Management | Cisco Networking Technologies | Network Security Firewall & Policies

Complete job description -We are looking for a skilled and motivated Network Support Engineer to provide onsite technical support, deployment, and maintenance of enterprise network infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have strong hands-on experience with Cisco networking technologies, including routing, switching, and security solutions, and will play a critical role in ensuring network stability, performance, and security.

Key Responsibilities:

• Provide onsite support for network infrastructure, including troubleshooting, configuration, and maintenance.
• Install, configure, and manage Cisco routers and switches.
• Single point of contact and SME for all managed network operations and network security related activities
• Assist Customer network engineering team to develop enterprise network design and strategy
• Identify additional business and project opportunities through coordination with Customer Network engineering lead and SMEs
• Perform network monitoring, issue diagnosis, and timely resolution of incidents and service requests.
• LAN (Data center & Branch office LAN): Managing core and access switches configuration changes, Code upgrade activities and troubleshooting any system level issues
• WAN (Data Center & Branch office) Managing WAN Routers, ISP switches configuration changes, Code upgrade activities, QOS & WAN changes and troubleshooting any system level issues
• Firewalls: Managing day to day operational configuration changes, Troubleshooting application access related issues, NAT/Access rules, and routing related changes
• Load Balancers: Managing day to day operational configuration changes, Code upgrade activities, Troubleshooting application access related issues and new application deployment, cert renewal activities.
• Telecom support activities: Phone configuration and troubleshooting, Teams and IP Phone configurations and troubleshooting, Coordinate with vendors, call quality issues troubleshooting and inbound/outbound calling issues troubleshooting
• Coordination with Vendors/Service providers: Opening tickets with service providers and vendor escalations based on the escalation matrix
• Assist in implementation and troubleshooting of Cisco SD-WAN environments.
• Manage and support Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) firewalls for network security.
• Work with Cisco Identity Services Engine (Client) for network access control and policy enforcement (preferred).
• Coordinate with remote teams, vendors, and stakeholders for incident resolution and project delivery.
• Perform network upgrades, patches, and planned maintenance activities.
• Maintain network documentation, diagrams, and configuration backups.
• Ensure adherence to security policies, standards, and best practices.
• Configuration migration and support (remote) for Firewall HW Replacement on the existing infrastructure
• ITIL Processes: Incident, Problem, Change and SR Management and Participating CAB meetings to represent network scheduled changes

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Strong hands-on experience with:
• Cisco Routing (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP)

Interview mode - In person/Virtual - Virtual

How many rounds of interview - 2

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