Sr. Network Engineer

Sr. Network Engineer
Location: Mclean, VA or Wilmington, DE
Length: 2 years
Need Local resources only

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Responsibilities
- Supports LAN/WAN and Carrier services with potential to branch into
Firewall, Load Balancing, Wireless Mobility, DNS and DHCP platforms to ensure peak
operating performance is maintained.
- Tier 3 escalation resource for incident resolution.
- Consult with various technology support groups as part of problem resolution efforts.
- Proactively evaluate network environments using various tools and management
- Assess vulnerabilities, identify and implement mitigation plans.
- Own platform life-cycle management.
- Contribute to enterprise network strategy/solutions development and technology
refresh efforts.
- Provide input to network enterprise design standards and maintain network topology
diagrams.
- Participate in technology integration efforts with other engineering and support teams.
- Provide direct support of audit and ad hoc consulting engagements.
- Ensure compliance with departmental and enterprise security configuration standards.
- Manage and Govern relationships with technology vendors utilized in the enterprise
network.
- Provide Technical leadership and guidance to junior personnel.

The ideal candidate should have:
- Enterprise caliber troubleshooting skills on a diverse range of Cisco Nexus and IOS
based platforms and associated technologies (Spanning Tree , MPLS, GETVPN,
PBR (Policy Based Routing), OSPF, BGP, QOS, Video, Unified Communications).
- Experience with design, configuration or support of campus and remote solutions.
- Experience leveraging network management tools and performing packet analysis as
part of incident/problem resolution.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Basic Qualifications
- High school diploma, GED/equivalent certification or military experience.
- At least 4 years of experience in all technical aspects of switching implementation.
- At least 4 years of leadership experience in operational support or 4 years of
leadership experience in an engineering capacity for medium to large enterprise
networks.
-At least 4 years of experience in all aspects of engineering or 4 years of experience in
all aspects of operational support.

Preferred Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree
- CCNP Datacenter or CCNP Routing and Switching certification (or equivalent).
- 6 years of experience in technical leadership of a medium to large enterprise network
- 6 years of experience in projects
- 6 years of experience in infrastructure
- 6 years of experience in all technical aspects of Routing implementation
- 6 years of experience in all technical aspects of Switching implementation
- Working knowledge of SDN (Software Defined Networks).
- Working knowledge of AWS (Amazon Web Services) or other current cloud offerings.
- Working knowledge of Python or other current scripting languages.
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BS Degree