Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer (CISCO)

Exp: 10+yrs

Remote (Anywhere in India)

Full-time permanent position with Vivid Edge Corp.

• The Senior Network Engineer is HIGHLY SKILLED in all areas of Network based technologies.
• This individual must have extensive background in Cisco. 
• The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for designing, planning and implementing high level as well as departmental projects with little or no supervision. Such projects include, but are not limited to, the configuration, installation and troubleshooting of routers, switches, wireless controllers and firewalls as well as implementation and support of Cisco Prime, Cisco Defense Orchestrator (CDO), DNA-Center (DNA-C), Solarwinds Orion along with other network related programs. 
• Additionally, this position will be responsible to research, evaluate and recommend software, hardware or cloud technologies that will support business needs. 
• Interaction with different business groups is essential within this role and requires an understanding of multiple business segments and IT’s impact on their functions (e.g. Healthcare, LifeScience and Contract Sterilization, finance, regulatory and audit). Professionalism and cooperation when working with customers, team members and management is imperative.

The Senior Network Engineer is also responsible for providing escalation support and troubleshooting for incidents reported by system monitoring, change requests, users support tickets or networking with IT peers. After hours support will be required.

Technical proficiency - HIGHLY SKILLED. (Extensive Background in Cisco/CCNP Certified)

a. LAN:

Must have hands-on experience in

i. Layer 1 media – fiber & copper connectivity

ii. Layer 2 topologies – Ether-channel, STP, VLAN & VTP, Port Security, dot1x implementation

iii. Layer 2&3 protocols - CDP,DTP & IP

iv. Cisco Switch Models: Catalyst 3850, Catalyst 9000, Catalyst 4500, Catalyst 6800, Nexus 7k & 9k

v. OS - Cisco IOS

vi. Configuration, Installation, Troubleshooting & Support

b. WAN:

Must have hands-on experience in

i. Layer 1 media – fiber & amp; copper connectivity

ii. Layer 2 topologies – PPP, MLPPP, & ELAN

iii. Layer 3 protocols – IP, MPLS

iv. Routing Protocols – EIGRP,OSPF,BGP

iv. Configuration of WAN Routers

v. Troubleshooting WAN and Routing Issues alongside ISP 

vi. Softwares upgrade

vii. Security - ACLs

viii. Cisco Router Models: 1900, 2900, 3900, 4K and above models

c. WLAN:

Must have hands-on experience in

i. Configuration of Cisco Embedded and Controller Models Architecture

ii. Captive/Guest portal creation

iii. Installation,Troubleshooting & Support

iv.Software upgrades

v. Cisco & Meraki

d. Security

Must have hands-on experience in 

i. Configuration, Implementation & Support

ii. Upgrades 

iii. Cisco ASA, FTD 1k, 3k and higher models

iv. FDM/FMC management skills 

v. Remote Access & S2S VPNs, Tunnel Creation, Troubleshooting & Support

vi. Cisco ISE 

e. SD-WAN Cisco Viptela

i. Must have knowledge & handson with Overlay, Underlay, OMP, BFD,TLOC, DTLS/TLS

ii. Configuration 

iii. Implementation

iv. Upgrades 

v. 8k and higher model devices

f. Data Center Networking:

i. Must have knowledge & handson with Configuration,Installation, Troubleshooting & Support

ii. Software upgrades

iii. OS – Cisco NX-OS, DCNM

iv. Cisco Switch Models: Nexus 9K product line

g. Orion Monitoring

i. Manage and unmanage Nodes via Orion

ii. Automation- Scripts creation and execution

iii. Node/Interface Addition, Modification and Removal

iv. Scheduling device Backups