Network Security Engineer/onsite/Cupertino

Motion Recruitment; Cupertino (CA); On-site; USD 171,924,000 - 229,233,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment seeks a Network Security Engineer for an onsite 12-month contract in Cupertino, CA. The role demands hands-on work with Cisco IOS-XE, NX-OS, and Arista EOS, with responsibility for monitoring, triage, and hardware burn-in.

You will collaborate across teams, manage Opengear consoles, and assist in procurement while ensuring robust device inventory and ticket escalation processes.

Qualifications

• Network engineering experience with enterprise-grade gear.
• Basic familiarity with SOC-style monitoring is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Basic layer-2 troubleshooting and administration of IOS-XE (Cisco), NX-OS (Cisco), and EOS (Arista) switches.
• Proactively monitor network devices via network monitoring tools, and Splunk syslog logging.
• Operate and manage Opengear console server for in-band and out-of-band management.
• Collaborate with other teams for network triage and escalation.
• Setting up and burn-in of network devices, including switches, routers, firewalls, and out-of-b.
• Perform inventory of physical and logical network devices, assist with quotes for hardware procurement.

Skills

Network+ / CCNA

VLAN / STP / VTP

ARP / HSRP / TACACS / RADIUS

Layer-3 routing basics

Wireshark / tcpdump

SNMPv3 / MIBs / OIDs

Layer-4 / firewall / NAT basics

Splunk log monitoring

Opengear console management

Tools

Wireshark

tcpdump

Splunk

Opengear

Cisco IOS-XE / NX-OS / EOS

Job description

Our client, a technology leader, is seeking a contract Network Security Engineer. This is an onsite role in Cupertino, CA.
Contract duration: 12 months
Experience Required
Network Engineer Skills:

• Network+ and/or CCNA level experiences with VLAN, STP, VTP, ARP, HSRP, TACACS, RADIUS, and basic layer-3 routing.
• Familiar with Wireshark, and/or tcpdump for packet analysis.
• Familiar with network monitoring and understanding of SNMPv3, MIBs and OIDs.
• Basic understanding of layer-4 and firewall/NAT knowledge.
  

Daily Responsibilities

• Basic layer-2 troubleshooting and administration of IOS-XE (Cisco), NX-OS (Cisco), and EOS (Arista) switches.
• Proactively monitor network devices via network monitoring tools, and Splunk syslog logging.
• Operate and manage Opengear console server for in-band and out-of-band management.
• Collaborate with other teams for network triage and escalation.
• Setting up and burn-in of network devices, including switches, routers, firewalls, and out-of-b.
• Perform inventory of physical and logical network devices, assist with quotes for hardware procurement.
  

Posted By: Clarence Caviness