Description:

Responsibilities include:

Play an active role in the design, development, and testing of applications in a networking environment

Plan and execute network and datacenter migration of applications including virtual cloud environments

Collaborate with co-located and remote colleagues to solve technical issues.

Validate large-scale application workflows in a cloud and datacenter/datacenter architecture

Develop and execute tests, log and track issues and drive them to resolution with verification of bug fixes, document test results and research findings.

Develop software/scripts as needed to assist in the systems validation process.

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Must Have:

-Strong hands-on networking experience (to the protocol level) in both Data Center and ISP environments

-Strong troubleshooting experience

-Customer facing experience and customer service aptitude

-Technical Skills:

-Advanced knowledge of Routing and Switching protocols in Data Center and ISP environments

-Data Center Platforms and Technology: Nexus, UCS

-Exposure to ACI and/or VXLAN

-Cisco IOS, NX-OS, and Nexus (must have)

-Cisco core platforms: CRS, ASR 9K, ASR 1k (must have)

-Familiarity with L2 Overlay technologies (VXLAN or NVGRE a plus)

-Experience with iSCSI

-Firewall and load balancing experience

Nice to have skills:

-Experience with Virtualization and VCenter

-Provisioning and configuration management using Ansible

-Exposure to tools such as WireShark, Spirent, or IXIA

-Experience developing automation scripts, eg Ansible, to assist in the network configuration process

Soft Skills

-Ability to elicit technical requirements from internal and external (client) staff as well as through validation/testing results and turn them into client-facing specification documents

-Ability to ramp up quickly on new tech and work outside of comfort zone and think at scale (they should demonstrate this by having certifications, examples of where/how they have ramped up quickly, etc)

-Must possess excellent team and interpersonal skills and should be comfortable working on geographically dispersed teams

-Ability to use problem solving techniques to identify scope, and resolve difficult, intermittent and other technical issues at scale

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About Actalent

Actalent is a global leader in engineering and sciences services and talent solutions. We help visionary companies advance their engineering and science initiatives through access to specialized experts who drive scale, innovation and speed to market. With a network of almost 30,000 consultants and more than 4,500 clients across the U.S., Canada, Asia and Europe, Actalent serves many of the Fortune 500.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion

At Actalent, diversity and inclusion are a bridge towards the equity and success of our people. DE&I are embedded into our culture through:

Hiring diverse talent

Maintaining an inclusive environment through persistent self-reflection

Building a culture of care, engagement, and recognition with clear outcomes

Ensuring growth opportunities for our people

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regard to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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