Senior Network Engineer

Job Description 

Must Haves:

-          BGP routing experience as well as solid Cisco switch experience both nexus and catalyst.  

-          Basic Nexus switching knowledge

-          We need someone that can work unsupervised and provide the needed backfill of knowledge to the junior guys (take over when they can’t resolve stuff). 

-          Cisco CCNP should be the minimum certification level

Plus:

o    Cisco/Fortinet Firewall experience

o    Cisco Wireless and Juniper Mist Wireless experience

o    Juniper Router configuration experience

What we are looking for with the Senior Engineer position:

·         We are looking for candidates with really solid BGP routing experience as well as solid Cisco switch experience both nexus and catalyst.  

·         Basic Nexus switching knowledge

·         Pluses would be:

o    Cisco/Fortinet Firewall experience

o    Cisco Wireless and Juniper Mist Wireless experience

o    Juniper Router configuration experience

·         We need someone that can work unsupervised and provide the needed backfill of knowledge to the junior guys (take over when they can’t resolve stuff). 

·         Cisco CCNP should be the minimum certification level (active or expired)

o    We are not usually hung up on certs, but it is frustrating to have candidates with these certifications and they cannot even do the basics in our candidate lab. 

·         Please stress to the candidates that there will be a lab test where they will have to perform layer2 and layer3 functions as well as have basic nexus switching knowledge to pass.

o    Remember that we give then one (1) hour to perform the lab

If they are uncomfortable with the lab, then they should just be weeded out/rejected.  This position consists of hands on configuration work as well as intensive troubleshooting in a healthcare environment.

The Senior Network Engineer, under general supervision, oversees and participates in the purchase, installation and implementation of LAN/WAN systems, firewalls/IPS, and enterprise wireless networks. Requires in depth, hands on knowledge of the following areas: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs/Spanning-Tree, high-available network topologies, VoIP, QoS, data center infrastructure, cloud infrastructure (Microsoft Azure) and security/encryption technologies while adhering to standard design methodologies and best practic