Network Project Manager

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs. 

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence.

Position Details:
Job Title: Network Project Manager
Location: Creve Coeur, MO - 63141
Duration: 12 months (with a possible extension)

Job Summary:
A growing global company is seeking a talented and motivated Senior WAN engineer to join its Global Project Engineering team. This is an exciting opportunity to be a part of the team that is responsible for designing and engineering, an advanced carrier class WAN environment in an enterprise setting. This fast-paced environment will challenge your knowledge of BGP, MPLS, QoS, Multicast, Cisco and Juniper hardware, Cisco IOS/XR, JunoOS, and other complex network technologies. In this role, you will be an important member of a critical team for our firm.

Essential Responsibilities (Specific day-to-day responsibilities and milestones needed to achieve the objectives):
• Responsible for medium and large project delivery.
• Develop and publish network engineering templates and other documentation for use by implementation (and other support) teams
• Proficient in engineering of Core MPLS technologies and Multicast capabilities
• PM the technical portions of the project and influence the Project managers timelines and schedules to be inclusive of technical deliverables.
• Responsible for the end to end delivery of a project.
• Standard interval reporting on portfolio of projects.
• Leverage standards for project delivery.
• Account for service design in LLD.
• Must be able to work through others.
• Understand business objectives and document business objectives

REQUIRED Skills and Experience (must have) ( include associated number of years):
• Excellent knowledge and hands-on experience with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF and RIP
• Hands-on experience with Cisco CRS-1, ASR, 7600, 6500, 7200 and Juniper platforms
• Strong knowledge of carrier technologies such as SONET, SDH, DWDM, and Ethernet services as well as the ability to work with carriers for troubleshooting purposes
• Strong understanding of MPLS technologies such as L3 VPN, L2 VPN, and any combination of at least two of the following: VPLS, MPLS QoS, MPLS TE and mVPN
• Hands-on experience with traffic monitoring and management toolkit, NBAR, NetFlow, SFlow
• Strong understanding and hands on experience of multicast technologies such as PIM Sparse mode, PIM Dense mode, and PIM SSM
• Minimum of 7 years experience ideally working in a carrier network or a large enterprise network in a design, engineering, or architecture role
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues
• Team player with proven track record of successful project delivery
• Motivated self starter
• Excellent attention to detail

PREFERRED Skills and Experience (nice to have) (include associated number of years):
Any quantifiable project management skills, certifications, or experience is a plus
• Any team lead or management experience is a plus
• Experience with Packet Design, OPNET, and similar tools is a plus
• Experience with JUNOS is a big plus
• Familiarity with ITIL framework
• Juniper MX240 platforms
• Hands-on experience with packet design route analysis tool and OPNET network engineering and planning tool is desirable

Education / Certifications (Specific degrees and/or certifications required or preferred):
• BS (or higher) in relevant field
• CCIE (any specialization, with lab) is required; CCIE in service provider specialization (CCIE-SP) is desired.
• PMP/PMI desired

If you are interested please contact NEHA KALIA (Technical Recruiter) at 973-929-6883 and email an updated copy of your resume (preferably WORD format) to neha.kalia(at)collabera.com