Network Automation Engineer at TEKsystems
Chicago, IL 60601
About the Job
Top Skills' Details
1) Network Engineering - 7+ years as a Data Network Engineer working with the Cisco product suite. Must have 5-7 years experience with Networking, Switches, Routers, LAN, WAN, TCP/IP, QoS, BGP, OSPF, MPLS
2) Network Automation - They need someone that has the ability to automate within network technologies. They are primarily an Ansible / AWX shop but also have terraform for our cloud automations.
3) Wireless Technologies - Candidate must have experience working with the latest Cisco Wireless Technologies. They must be able to design and implement a multi campus wireless technology in enterprise infrastructure.
4) F5 Load Balancing - Candidate must have 3-5+ years of experience working with Load Balancers. Must be familiar with LTM and GTM. Must have implemented and supported Pools, Virtual Servers, Health Monitors and have globally load balanced apps or services.
5) On Prem / Cloud - must come from an environment that still has on prem hardware
6) SDwan - Candidate must come from an environment that has SDwan
Description
Looking for a Sr. Level Engineer to join their team. This person will be responsible for the level 3 Engineering of the Network.
Qualified candidates must have enterprise level experience with Cisco's suite of products. This is not an operations position, this is an Engineer/Architect level position. They need to have experience in a large multi campus enterprise designing and implementing solutions. They will also need to have experience with F5, more on the support/operations side.
Responsibilities
• Provides technical design, development, implementation and support for network engineering projects and operational functions in order to meet business requirements on time and in a quality manner.
• Collaborates with project and functional management to define the scope and general direction of specific projects and ensures that all appropriate individuals share a consistent understanding of the development work and progress.
•Knows how network engineering enterprise applications and infrastructure support business processes, understands the scope of the network engineering service catalog and can escalate service requests both internally and with external vendors to meet SLAs. Acts as a secondary resource with vendors and management to escalate and communicate incidents and resolutions.
• Reviews network engineering activities (e.g. system backups are scheduled, executed and audited) to ensure that all
required SLAs are met.
• Participates in the identification, creation, review and approval of standards to support new technology and business
models. Reviews and approves exceptions to documented standards.
•Serves as a subject matter expert and mentors less senior analysts and engineers on network engineering infrastructure, processes and procedures. Ensures that appropriate training is developed and conducted to facilitate the transfer of knowledge.
• Conducts regular audits of the network to ensure compliance to standards.
• Reviews network engineering documents (e.g. technical designs, unit tests, etc.) produced by engineers and analysts to ensure that project scope is adequately covered.
• Ensures that all design documents are up-to-date and available in the document repository.
• Facilitates the audit and recurring update of network engineering and other standards to ensure the ongoing quality of
network engineering projects and the overall health of the network environment.
Skills
Engineer, Network, Cisco, Deploy, Configure, Router, Switch, WAN, LAN, BGP, OSPF, F5, Network engineering, Router, Ccna, Cisco routers, Cisco switches, Troubleshooting, Switches, Data center, Routing, Juniper, Infrastructure, Firewall, Bgp, Wireless, Network architecture, Vpn
Additional Skills & Qualifications
- 7 years of experience in Building and supporting enterprise network environments.
- Must be experienced with MPLS, BGP, OSPF and large L2/L3 switching environments.
- Must be experienced with Riverbed WAN optimization.
- Must have troubleshooting experience in an MPLS, WAN, LAN and Wi-Fi environments.
- Experience with various storage platforms such as SAN and NAS is a plus
Must have strong knowledge of technologies such as QoS, VPN, GRE, IPsec, TCP/IP, DNS and DHCP. Knowledge
of VMware, Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008/2012, Exchange Server 2007/2010/2013, Active Directory, DNS, DHCP, and other Microsoft products and services is a plus. Possess excellent oral and written communication skills with the ability to communicate both at a technical level and also with business executives.
Experience Level
Expert Level
Pay and Benefits
The pay range for this position is $60.00 - $80.00
• Medical, dental & vision
• Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available
• Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
• Short and long-term disability
• Health Spending Account (HSA)
• Transportation benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
Workplace Type
This is a fully remote position.
Application Deadline
This position will be accepting applications until Jan 16, 2025.
About TEKsystems:
We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.
The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.