Role: Core network (Switching and Routing)
Location: San Ramon, CA ( Day 1 Onsite)
Duration: Long term contract
Primary Skills: Cisco ACI, MPBGP-VXLAN, Cisco Nexus, Routing & switching, Arista, Switch/device upgrades
Total & Relevant Yrs. Of Exp: Mandatory CCIE Certification or 15+ years' experience
Job Description
- Possess excellent work ethic and communication skills and enjoy working in a geographically diverse environment.
- Driven desire to understand existing infrastructure with an eye on improvement with new emerging technologies.
- Passionate about learning network architecture and design network solutions, problem solve, support a global team and partner with the business
- Performance and uptime are your key metrics, and you always have security in mind
- You never shy away from a technical challenge and look to improve efficiencies in process and automation
- WiFi, On-prem, public cloud, SDWAN, and MAN/WAN/LAN network experience
Essential Career Experience
- Relevant Cisco/Palo Alto Network Support, engineering, and Administration
- Possesses experience with most common network components to include routers, switches, firewalls, protocols, VoIP, DNS, remote access, VPN, routing, and switching. Also has knowledge of TCP/IP routing technologies including OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP, in addition to knowledge of applicable business lines/industries.
- Technical experience in Active Directory and Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques
- Deep understanding of layer 2/layer 3 networking details, like arp, mac-address-table, VLANs, trunking, port-aggregation, VRFs, VXlan, VTP, static routing, OSPF/BGP routing, SIP, upgrade processes
- High level of expertise in Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco firewalls, particularly Firepower OS and management tools, Cisco routers, and Cisco switches
- Five years of network management systems including PRTG, SolarWinds, Logic Monitor, Cisco DNA, and Palo Alto Panoram
- Experience with CISCO and Extreme network solutions
- Experience with Network analysis tools (Solar Winds Network Management, PRTG, SolarWinds, Logic Monitor, Cisco DNA, and Palo Alto Panorama etc.)
- Experience with Palo Alto, Fortinet and Cisco firewall/VPN devices
- Experience with supporting IP services (IPv4, VPN, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, SDN, SNMP, VOIP, VTC, etc)
- Experience with IPSec, BGP, OSPF, and MPLS
Job Requirements
- CCNP R&S or CCIE certification - Network design, engineering, and implementation (Advanced Level)
- Two to Five years of experience with Cisco Wireless and Cisco UCM/Voice
- Thorough understanding of layer 2/layer 3 networking details, like arp, mac-address-table, VLANs, trunking, port-aggregation, VRFs, VXlan, VTP, static routing, OSPF/BGP routing, SIP, upgrade processes
- High level of expertise in Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco firewalls, particularly Firepower OS and management tools, Cisco routers, and Cisco switches
- Expert knowledge of IT areas of responsibility, such as VPN client, site-to-site VPN, VMWare networking, voice systems, collaboration systems, internet provider circuit connectivity