Sr. Network Engineer

CereCore; Nashville (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

CereCore in Nashville, TN seeks a Senior Network Engineer for a contract role to design, deploy, and manage enterprise WAN/LAN across a national footprint.

You will work with firewalls, VPNs, load balancers (F5), Cisco devices, and MPLS/Frame Relay; strong OSI knowledge; excellent communication.

Minimal travel, ITIL knowledge preferred, will lead projects and ensure SLAs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or a related field.
• 7+ years of Network Engineer experience.
• Experience with Check Point Firewalls, VPNs, and Cisco devices.
• Familiarity with F5 load balancers and MPLS/Frame Relay.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain nation-wide enterprise WAN/LAN solutions with best-practice switching/routing.
• Provide OSI model and Layer 1/2/3 expertise for networking.
• Address Layer 1 fiber/copper, patch panels, and connector types.
• Manage VLANs, trunking, Spanning Tree, and 802.1Q.
• Configure OSPF/BGP, QoS, and IP multicast.
• Troubleshoot network issues and perform protocol analysis.
• Analyze end-to-end data flows and traffic patterns.
• Plan capacity and network impact through modeling.
• Upgrade hardware/software and configure LAN/WAN equipment.
• Plan IP addressing and VLSM; configure WAN services (MPLS, Frame Relay).
• Manage AAA, DHCP, DNS, ICMP, and SNMP services.
• Design security solutions using Cisco ASA, Check Point, Juniper SSL, Citrix NetScaler.
• Implement remote access (SSL-VPN, IPSec, B2B).
• Design and configure F5 BigIP load balancers.
• Possibly work with Enterprise WLAN; maintain standards/docs.
• Lead projects, coordinate with vendors, ensure SLAs.
• Support IT&S change and project management processes.

Skills

Network Engineer

7+ years exp

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related

Tools

Check Point Firewall

VPN technologies

F5 Big-IP

Cisco devices

MPLS

Frame Relay

Job description

Classification: Contract

Contract Length: 12- months

Position Summary

Provide Enterprise data networking designs, services, consulting, and support in a fortune 100 company environment with national reach. These responsibilities will require the candidate to be a Subject Matter Expert across network technologies, services, and additional related components (as listed for this position). The candidate must provide solutions that meet HCA network requirements and maintain networking service levels.

Position Summary

Provide Enterprise data networking designs, services, consulting, and support in a fortune 100 company environment with national reach. These responsibilities will require the candidate to be a Subject Matter Expert across network technologies, services, and additional related components (as listed for this position). The candidate must provide solutions that meet HCA network requirements and maintain networking service levels.

This position will interact daily with the Availability Center, Customer Support, Business Partners, Vendors, IT&S personnel, as well as the end users on developing network solutions to meet business requirements. Excellent written and oral communications skills regarding presentations, technical white papers, and network proposals will be required. Project management and problem management skills are required to effectively meet business objectives and Service Level Agreements.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain complex nation-wide, enterprise WAN/LAN solutions, utilizing best practice switching/routing technologies and topologies. (ie: Fortune 100 experience in network design, deployment and support)
• In-depth understanding of OSI model
• Layer 1 technologies including fiber optic cabling, copper cabling, patch panels, and connector types
• Layer 2 technologies including VTP, ISL and 802.1Q trunking, spanning-tree, VLANs
• OSPF/BGP routing protocols, IP advertising/filtering/redistribution, Quality of Service, IP multicast
• Engineering consultations for Level III network troubleshooting/problem resolution, protocol analysis, network troubleshooting/problem determination skills with network trace/capture/analysis software
• Understanding of end-to-end data flows and traffic patterns.
• Network impact analysis, modeling, network capacity planning
• Software/hardware device upgrades, LAN equipment configurations/provisioning (see specific technologies within Area of Experience section).
• IP addressing, variable length subnet masking
• Wide Area Network technology provisioning and configuration (i.e. MPLS, ATM, Frame Relay) and WAN equipment configurations for bandwidth rates from sub-rate T1 to 10Gb, as well as Metro-E connectivity from 10Mb to 10Gb
• Networking services such as AAA, DHCP, DNS, ICMP and SNMP
• Design and implementation for network security technologies and products (Cisco ASA, Checkpoint, Juniper SSL and Citrix NetScaler)
• Remote access technologies (i.e. SSL-VPN, IPSec, B2B, private line).
• F5 BigIP load-balancing design and configuration
• Enterprise WLAN experience a plus
• Creating/maintaining/following network standards and policies/procedural documentation and enterprise level network diagramming
• Certification, Proof of Concept, and/or integration testing.
• Working with vendors on product design enhancements to integrate new technologies
• Project Management and problem management skillsets
• Meet IT&S change management and project management requirements
• ITIL Knowledge
• Minimal travel for network analysis, network upgrades and customer network consultations
• Act as a technical lead for projects, ensuring work is being completed accurately and on-time

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology or similar field
• 7+ years of Network Engineer experience
• Experience working with Firewalls (Check Point), VPN technologies, basic routing knowledge, load balancer (F5), Cisco
• Candidates must have excellent communication skills