Position – Junior Network Engineer
Location – Roanoke, VA (CANDIDATES MUST CURRENTLY LIVE IN Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, or Washington, DC!)
Duration- 6+ Months
Interview: Phone/skype
Client: Advance Auto Parts
No h1B
Location: Roanoke, VA - Need someone nearby state - CANDIDATES MUST CURRENTLY LIVE IN Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, or Washington, DC!
Job Description
Client has an immediate need for a Network Engineer for a customer located in Roanoke, Virginia. This position will require the selected candidate to work on-site. This is an intermediate level IT position directly supporting the network in all day to day activities.
Qualifications:
- Senior knowledge of network technologies, design standards, and positive and negative attributes of those. Including- TCP/IPv4 protocol suite, DNS, DHCP, NTP, Routing Protocols, Routing Domain architectures, LAN/WAN technologies, Data Center Fabric, Telecommunications Services, Information Security standards, Quality-of-Service, and Wireless Network technologies.
- A broad understanding of IT security standards and best practices for network infrastructure/service design. Including- PCI, SOX, HIPAA, Defense-In-Depth concepts, Network Segmentation, Data Center Service Isolation architectures, AAA services, Group Identity Structures, Layered Security architecture, and a Cooperative Policy framework.
- A strong understanding of enterprise application and service environments. Including- Web-App-DB application architectures, Enterprise Services and Middleware operations, and Shared Infrastructure services.
- A solid understanding of Cisco Routing and Switching including VLANs, Ethernet, WANs, LANs, Spanning Tree, vPC, Port Channels, and industry best practices.
- A solid working understanding of Cisco Nexus and UCS technologies, including Nexus Distribution and Access tier models, Nexus Spine and Leaf models, Cisco UCS and FI network architecture, APIC and SDN-based networks, and a multi-tier data center segmentation model.
- Proficient with SSL service management, the implementation of SSL for web services, load-balancing SSL services, managing multi-site certificates and procuring certificates.
- Ability to understand WAN circuit technologies, such as MPLS, OC/SONET, DWDM, as well as the implementation, management and the associated industry best practice troubleshooting methods.
- Solid communication skills. Consistent communication and keeping requester informed of ticket, request, or project status. Ability to translate end-user concerns to technical needs for communication within team or with other IT teams.
- Good collaboration skills, within team and with others. The engineer must have the ability to work with others in a collaborative way, sharing his/her ideas/opinions, and be able to comfortably voice opinion, express justification for and accept alternate opinions.
- Prioritizing operational issues and implementation tasks based on alignment with defined urgency and prioritization guidelines.
- Must be able to manage requirements gathering, technical definition and task tracking to be successful.
- Understanding of TCP/IP. Specifically, how do systems communicate over an IP network, the differences between TCP and UDP communication, what applications / OS / NICs are responsible for in the communication stack.
- Firm understanding of operation of network firewalls and IPS systems, where they are located, and impact they could have on communication between areas of the network. Able to use event management tools to research and identify general impacts on connectivity due to network firewall or IPS systems.
- Must be able to understand detailed technical systems, how they interoperate, what functionality they provide, and ultimately- what really matters with each of them. For many cases, that means knowing how things interact and where potential problems may be in troubleshooting issues. However, design decisions are all too often more important than supporting the solution later, and these rely on answering many of the same questions.
- Must understand key business functions, technical solutions supporting them, and identify potential risks involved with changes or activities that he/she is responsible for.
- Able to effectively guide other junior engineers, working alongside of them when necessary to show them the key factors to manage throughout their project/task. The engineer should highlight the key caveats and goals for the related work. The engineer must have extensive experience with design and implementation of all relevant technical solutions that he/she will be responsible for.
- Able to review, analyze and translate business requirements into the appropriate technical solution, providing design that adheres to enterprise network architecture standards.
- On the job experience of 3-5 years equivalent to design engineer & Bachelor’s Degree in a technical discipline.
CCNP is highly preferred