Network Engineer

VDart Inc; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

VDart Inc is seeking a seasoned Network Engineer for an onsite Chicago role requiring 10+ years in enterprise network engineering. The candidate will lead project teams and mentor junior engineers, applying advanced routing, switching, and security concepts across data centers.

Experience with SDN (Cisco ACI, VMware NSX) and network virtualization, plus strong documentation skills, are essential. Willingness to work nights/weekends for implementations is expected.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of network engineering in enterprise environments.
• 5+ years leading project teams or mentoring engineers.
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Skills

Network engineering

Routing & Switching

Cisco ACI

SDN solutions

Network security

Documentation

Scripting

Team leadership

On-call support

Education

Bachelor's degree in Networking

Tools

Cisco UCS

VMware NSX

Nexus switches

Firewalls

VPN

Network automation

Job description

Role: Network Engineer

Location: Chicago IL(Onsite)

Contract

• 10+ years 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