This position is looking for a seasoned Network Engineer who is able to work a hybrid position with 1-2 days a week onsite. This position is a 6-month contract to hire and you must be a US citizen with a Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities:

• Drive for results by motivating team(s) while constantly driving towards key milestones. Maintains constant awareness of deliverables; keeps team focused on short and long term milestones
• Drive standardization to ensure one implementation and one experience.
• Partner with vendors and understands critical information about future technologies. Lead the production and maintenance of processes, procedures, operational and architectural documentation.
• Accountable for execution according to established standards, procedures, and processes.
• Own cross-functional support for development and implementation of systems.
• Ensure WAN is always available and reliable.
• Ensure optimization and performance of the hardware, software and virtual infrastructure. Recommend upgrades, patches to current infrastructure, as well as capacity planning for future customer needs.
• Be the third level support to the Operations Groups and monitors the Service Desk system. Perform troubleshooting, fault isolation, and recovery of failed network components.

Qualifications

Required:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience in the technology domain
• Cisco Storage and NetApp experience
• Strong expertise in Cisco IOS
• Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) / Secure Access Service Edge (SASE)
• Automation, Programming/Scripting languages (Python, Ansible, etc.) & Orchestration
• Cisco ISE, network access control and segmentation
• Cisco Software Define Access (SDA)
• Network Function Virtualization (NFV)
• Expert knowledge with multi-site network protocols and physical topology, systems monitoring, including packet level analysis
• Advanced understanding of cyber security, cloud, compute and storage technologies.
• Proven track record and experience of the following in a highly complex and global organization
• Creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures, with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection
• Experience of agile methodology
• Ability to travel as needed
• CCNA cert or MCSE cert
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience: degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering, or other technical degree preferred