Senior Network Engineer – Hybrid, Chicago Local

Prairie Consulting Services; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Prairie Consulting Services is seeking a Sr. Lead Network Engineer for a hybrid role with 3 days on-site at our Chicago office.

Local candidates who reside in Chicago are required. The position involves supporting and enhancing complex enterprise networks across global data centers, colocation facilities, and hybrid cloud environments, with leadership in migrations and migrations and troubleshooting of mission-critical infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 10+ years hands-on enterprise network engineering experience.
• Strong Cisco Nexus and Catalyst routing and switching experience, including BGP, OSPF, and Layer 2/Layer 3 networking.
• Experience deploying, migrating, and troubleshooting enterprise WAN and SD-WAN environments. Prisma SD-WAN strongly preferred.
• CCNP-level knowledge preferred; Cisco certifications are a plus.
• Azure ExpressRoute and/or AWS Direct Connect experience.
• Palo Alto firewalls, Infoblox, F5 and network security services experience a plus.
• Terraform, Ansible, Python, GitHub, and network automation practices.

Skills

Network engineering

Leadership

Troubleshooting

WAN/SD-WAN expertise

Tools

Cisco Nexus

Cisco Catalyst

Azure ExpressRoute

AWS Direct Connect

Palo Alto

Terraform

Ansible

Python

GitHub

Job description

Prairie Consulting Services is seeking a Sr. Lead Network Engineer for a hybrid role with 3 days on-site at our Chicago office.

Local candidates who reside in Chicago are required. The position involves supporting and enhancing complex enterprise networks across global data centers, colocation facilities, and hybrid cloud environments, with leadership in migrations and migrations and troubleshooting of mission-critical infrastructure.