Role: –Senior Network Engineer
Bill Rate: $82/hour C2C
Location: Tampa ,FL
Duration: 12+ months/ long-term
Interview Criteria: Telephonic + Zoom
Direct Client Requirement
Responsibilities
Gathers information concerning the capabilities of Company products; investigates the technical capabilities of Company products and competing equipment and solutions; stays abreast of developments in hardware and software. Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description, system planning & design and ensures requirements are complied with through formal verification methods. Translates high-level product development strategies into network and system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements. Establishes and coordinates the development of standards, practices, and procedures related to the overall network and system development. Design interfaces and combine network and system elements to work as a whole. Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Customer liaison and support for business development activities and understanding and shaping requirements.
Responsibilities:
- Work in a fast-paced environment alongside a team of highly specialized Engineers, providing engineering and implementation action for integration, modernization, and new installations for partner nations and allies in the Southern & European Command areas of responsibilities.
- Ability to install network equipment, cabling, in complex data center environments.
- Provide operation and integration support for a multi-vendor infrastructure, including various routers and switches, vendor firewalls, and vendor servers.
- Aid senior engineers and the team with routing and switching support with an intermediate understanding of designing, testing, and implementing dynamic routing protocols (both IGP and EGP), a core understanding of layer two technologies and concepts, and familiarity with any of the major vendor CLI (Cisco IoS, JunOS, PanOS) environments.
- Ability to configure, install, and manage routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, virtual local area networks (VLANs), multi-protocol label switching (MPLS), IP routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, EIGRP), IP multicast, and quality of service (QoS) under the direction and guidance of senior engineers and network architects.
- Ensure proper routing protocols are being applied to optimize the end-to-end network performance from the Local Area Network (LAN) through a Wide Area Network (WAN), to a Campus Area Network (CAN), to a Storage Area Network (SAN), or data center.
- Assist the customer with identifying derived design objectives, technical specifications, performance requirements, and interoperability specifications to ensure the system design meets stakeholder end-to-end requirements.
- Document networks, system changes, and all required checklists within the configuration baseline.
- ability and understanding of network drawing and use of productivity tools (Visio, Lucid, AutoCad, etc.) is necessary.
Qualifications
Required Skills and Experience
Clearance: Secret
- Must possess an Active Secret or NATO Secret Clearance
- Must have a valid US and be prepared for international travel up to 40% at customer locations in Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America..
- Must be fluent in Spanish, both conversational and written.
- Proficiency with network diagramming and productivity tools (such as Visio, Lucid, and AutoCAD) is necessary.
- Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (Security+CE, CCNA Security, CySA+, CASP, etc.).
- Entry-level experience with Cyber Network Defense (CND), Cybersecurity Operations, or current CCNA Level Certification.
- Knowledge of multi-area OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and MPLS environments
- Experience setting up IPSec VPNs, GRE Tunnels, and DMVPN architecture.
- Experience with L2 and L3 protocols over CampWAN networks.
- Experience with multitiered hub-and-spoke network design.
Note: If you are interested, please share your updated resume and suggest the best number & time to connect with you. If your resume is shortlisted, one of our IT Recruiter from my team will contact you as soon as possible
Srinivasa Reddy Kandi
Client Delivery Manager
Valiant Technologies LLC
Equal Opportunity Employer:
We are an equal opportunity employer. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, discipline, or discharge, will be based on merit, competence, performance, and business needs. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, ancestry, physical or mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, citizenship/ immigration status, veteran status, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law