Senior Network Engineer
Requirements:
- Senior level Cisco Network Engineer with 7+ yrs of experience
- Strong cisco network design, deployment, and documentation skills
- Strong ability to self-manage, organize, and prioritize workload
- Strong communication skills to negotiate work scope, apprise project team, and to resolve issues by involving others
- Highly skilled with Cisco Switch Stacking, Layer2 (Trunk, LACP, STP design), Layer3 (BGP, SVI)
- Able to make recommendations to Architect on design, and able to flex to use company standards or other best-practices
- Able to document implementation design and guide team through physical installation
- Strong implementation skills & experience
- Rack-n-Stack
- Configuration according to best practices
- A preference towards automation
- System hardening according to Cisco guides
- Strong implementation skills & experience
- Able to document as-built design (L1 – L3) and provide KT/hand-off to support team
- Able to create full set of test-cases and validate & document network failure conditions
- Able to manage compute systems or automation to perform validation
- Preferred automation might include Robot framework, Python, Ansible etc.
- Able to manage compute systems or automation to perform validation
Specifically they'll need to have the following skills/experience:
- Cisco CCNP level experience for 5+ yrs
- Switch Stacking – (initially 9300L, followed by 9300S when delivered)
- Fiber interconnections (20-40K SMF, Local MMF)
- LACP Port Channels
- Strong hands-on understanding of subnetting and IP Address planning
- iBGP configuration
- eBGP configuration
- L3 SVI's
- L2 LACP trunk to downstream
- L2 LACP trunk to upstream + 2 x /30 SVI's for L3 BGP establishment
- L2 Spanning Tree loop-free Design (prune appropriate VLANs on Fiber ring)
- Palo Alto experience
- FW Rules
- BGP configuration or updates
- VPN Tunnel configuration or updates
Required Skills : Amazon Web Services (AWS),Cisco
Basic Qualification :
Additional Skills :
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :Development/Engineering
Master Job Title :Net/Sys Eng: Cisco
Branch Code :Houston