Job Description :
Direct End Client: State of New York
Job Title: Cisco Network Engineer
Duration: 24 months
Start Date: 11/27/2018
Location: Brooklyn, NY 11201
Position Type: Contract
Interview Type: In Person Only
Requirement ID: NYC_CISCO806_MA

Required Skills:
84+ months of experience in configuring routers, switches and firewalls
84+ months of experience in troubleshooting routers, switches and firewalls
84+ months of experience in installing routers, switches and firewalls
84+ months of experience with Cisco networking devices such as routers, switches firewalls and wireless controllers
84+ months of experience working with all of the following networking protocols: BGP, RIPv2, OSPF, EIGRP, DNS, HTTP, and NAT
84+ months of experience troubleshooting
84+ months of experience in the networking industry handling various switched and routed data networks & protocols in a multi-platform environment
84+ months of experience with SONET architecture and deployment using DWDM technology and monitoring tools

Project: Network Operations Center

Department: New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE)

Description: The Network Operations Team is responsible for monitoring and supporting over 1,200 school buildings with over 100,000 networking devices in the DOE infrastructure. This infrastructure provides internet connectivity for all teachers, students and administrators citywide within the Department of Education. Providing, supporting and designing network connectivity for all DOE applications and services that travers the network infrastructure is critical for the business and day-to-day operations.

Responsibilities:
Maintains the Wide Area Network (WAN) including connectivity, servers, applications and network hardware and software to ensure system stability, reliability, availability and connectivity to the user community.
Troubleshoots and recommends improvements to network including operating systems and related software and provides tactical and strategic input to overall network planning and related projects. Isolates and resolves network problems in a timely manner.
Responsible for working with vendors and resolving network outages in a timely fashion in order to meet internal SLAs and / or Metrics.
Lead technical person responsible for the NOC''s trouble ticket queues and associated processes.
Performs analysis of the Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) networking communication protocol and configures and maintains network switches, VLAN''s, Servers, Routers, Controllers, Cisco Wireless Access Points, Load Balancers (CSS, F5 & Extreme) Cisco Secure PIX Firewalls (520/525) and Cisco ASA / Firepower Firewalls.
Maintains and supports on-line databases, various network applications (e.g. Visio, etc, and network management platforms (e.g. Netscout, Splunk, Nagios, CiscoWorks, Airwave, Netflow, Netcool, Cisco Unity Operations Manager, etc,) deployed on the internet, intranet, client-server and mainframe platforms.
Serves as the lead technical resource person in the diagnosis and correction of LAN and WAN problems for all school-based and administrative personnel. This includes failure analysis in a complex networking environment which may include mainframe applications, web applications, traditional wide area & DWDM SONET telecommunications network.
Performs day-to-day network administration tasks including network equipment installation, configuration, and upgrades, testing and troubleshooting.
Diagnoses problems, verifying servers/switches/router status, testing device connectivity, path trace, etc., using different network monitoring software, such as CiscoWorks.
Provides documentation and tactical assistance regarding developmental, technical and operational support to the DOE.
Monitors firewall performance and integrity and maintains and resolves all internet related technical issues.
Prepares network diagrams, floor plans and schematics using Visio.
Provides operational support for IPDVS infrastructure related issues.


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