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Spectraforce Technologies is Hiring a Senior Network Engineer Near Chicago, IL
Role: Senior Network Engineer
Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid
Duration: 6 Months
Note: focused on data and network, Layer Systems and Cisco
Key responsibilities
The Senior Network Engineer's primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are defined standards in place, manage the technical lifecycle of products and services and deliver change/transformation against created designs; always ensuring a smooth transition/handover to Network Operations.
Project Overview: The Contractor will have experience of working in high impact, mission critical environments where service matters and exceeding expectations is the norm.
Contractor' Role: Reporting to the Network Manager, the Senior Network Engineer is seen as a technical expert in Network Engineering infrastructure. This is a technical and hands on role, with a primary focus on design, implementation and support of network engineering changes; you will be expected as well to provide support to the network management and performance operations team with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.
Tasks & Responsibilities
* Responsible for defining and documenting Network Engineering Standards
* Responsible for the creation of Low Level Design documents to meet requirements outlined in the High Level Design
* Responsible for the creation of detailed Implementation Plans for all engineering related activity
* Responsible for Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project)
* Responsible for ensuring the smooth Transition/Handover to Operations in line with agreed Operational Acceptance Process
* Responsible for managing Technical Lifecycle Management for all Network & Communications services
* Responsible for supporting Architecture in creation and upkeep of a Delivery Roadmap for Network Engineering
* Responsible for supporting the Architecture in scoping activities required to produce the High Level Design
* Responsible for supporting Architecture in undertaking Proof of Concept activities
* Responsible for ensuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high level of support
* Responsible for providing escalation support to Operations with complex troubleshooting of Major Incidents as required
* Provide on call escalation support (rota basis) and work extended hours as and when required
Qualifications:
* 10 years hands on experience as a network engineering lead within a global enterprise scale organization (5,000-50,000 users) with both traditional Datacentre and Cloud (Azure/AWS).
* You will have considerable first-hand experience of design engineering and building resilient and scalable engineering solutions, ideally within finance or investment banking.
* Strong background in Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Aruba, SDWAN, routing switching, datacentre infrastructure and technologies.
* Solid knowledge of configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Yaml, Chef, Puppet, Terraform.
* In depth knowledge of Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, and network protocols such as Ether-Channel (LACP,MC-LAG), Virtual Chassis, STP and SNMP.
* Solid understanding of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, MBGP, VXLAN, TCP/IP and IPv6.
* Solid understanding of Datacentre Spine/leaf architectures using Cisco ACI or Arista spine/leaf, or others.
* Familiarity with SDWAN infrastructure such as Silver peak.
* Familiarity with Layer 3, 4 and 7 load balancing methodologies and protocols as well as experience with highly available network and system architectures.
* Knowledge of 801.11a/g/n/ac Cisco WLC, WLAN, CAPWAP,LWAPP and other Wireless technologies.
* Experience with Cisco IOS/NX-OS/ASA-OS, Junos, ArubaOS and/or Arista
* Solid knowledge in the use of various monitoring tools and packet capture tools such as SolarWinds Orion NCM/NPM, Wireshark, Gigamon, Netscout, Cisco DNA, etc.
* Good in software development lifecycle, ITIL, Agile, Kanban process
* You will be familiar with a variety of testing tools, networking technologies and techniques to accurately troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems associated with the service, application and network hardware and software.
* Cisco Routing & Switching. Juniper, Arista, Aruba, Silver peak.
* BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Layer2/Layer 3, STP, SNMP.
* SolarWinds Orion NCM/NPM, NetScout, Gigamon and Wireshark.
* Cloud automation Azure/AWS
* Ansible and/or Puppet automation tools. Python scripting.
* Workflow automation
* Layer 2 and Layer 3 and Layer 4-7 protocols
* WAN Optimization
* DNS, IPAM and DHCP
Personal Attributes
* You will be highly organized and have proven ability to operate well under pressure, working to tight deadlines
* You will have good problem management and customer service skills.
* You will have a positive attitude and be capable of remaining positive even when under immense pressure.
* You will be able to work with global teams to deliver projects, often at pace and under challenging circumstances.
* You are someone with high professional standards, who never accepts the status-quo; who challenges why things are done the way they are.
* You will be a strong communicator, both written and verbal
* You discourage hero culture and ensure the team always comes before the individual, although always ensuring for the welfare of staff at all times.
* You will always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)
* You will work effectively as one IT community across the regions and the business
* You will embrace the philosophy and principles of group IT
Nice to haves:
* Cisco ACI
* CCIE
* Wireshark and high skilled troubleshooting tools.
* JNCIA-Junos
* CWNA
* ITILv3 foundation or higher
* Cisco CCNP Networks
Below is the brief introduction of SPECTRAFORCE, the benefits we offer and the disclaimers:
Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams.
We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 130 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation.
SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of "human connection," defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people (and clients) can reach their highest potential. Our entire workflow and teams are trained to cultivate the joy of NEWJOBPHORIA with candidates and employees throughout their engagement with SPECTRAFORCE.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at if you require reasonable accommodation.
SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
Location: Chicago, IL - Hybrid
Duration: 6 Months
Note: focused on data and network, Layer Systems and Cisco
Key responsibilities
The Senior Network Engineer's primary areas of responsibility include ensuring there are defined standards in place, manage the technical lifecycle of products and services and deliver change/transformation against created designs; always ensuring a smooth transition/handover to Network Operations.
Project Overview: The Contractor will have experience of working in high impact, mission critical environments where service matters and exceeding expectations is the norm.
Contractor' Role: Reporting to the Network Manager, the Senior Network Engineer is seen as a technical expert in Network Engineering infrastructure. This is a technical and hands on role, with a primary focus on design, implementation and support of network engineering changes; you will be expected as well to provide support to the network management and performance operations team with complex troubleshooting of issues as required.
Tasks & Responsibilities
* Responsible for defining and documenting Network Engineering Standards
* Responsible for the creation of Low Level Design documents to meet requirements outlined in the High Level Design
* Responsible for the creation of detailed Implementation Plans for all engineering related activity
* Responsible for Procurement activities relating to build and delivery of new services (Project)
* Responsible for ensuring the smooth Transition/Handover to Operations in line with agreed Operational Acceptance Process
* Responsible for managing Technical Lifecycle Management for all Network & Communications services
* Responsible for supporting Architecture in creation and upkeep of a Delivery Roadmap for Network Engineering
* Responsible for supporting the Architecture in scoping activities required to produce the High Level Design
* Responsible for supporting Architecture in undertaking Proof of Concept activities
* Responsible for ensuring skillsets are relevant and up to date in order to deliver change and provide a high level of support
* Responsible for providing escalation support to Operations with complex troubleshooting of Major Incidents as required
* Provide on call escalation support (rota basis) and work extended hours as and when required
Qualifications:
* 10 years hands on experience as a network engineering lead within a global enterprise scale organization (5,000-50,000 users) with both traditional Datacentre and Cloud (Azure/AWS).
* You will have considerable first-hand experience of design engineering and building resilient and scalable engineering solutions, ideally within finance or investment banking.
* Strong background in Cisco, Juniper, Arista, Aruba, SDWAN, routing switching, datacentre infrastructure and technologies.
* Solid knowledge of configuration automation tools such as Ansible, Yaml, Chef, Puppet, Terraform.
* In depth knowledge of Layer 2, Layer 3, TCP/IP, and network protocols such as Ether-Channel (LACP,MC-LAG), Virtual Chassis, STP and SNMP.
* Solid understanding of routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, RIP, MBGP, VXLAN, TCP/IP and IPv6.
* Solid understanding of Datacentre Spine/leaf architectures using Cisco ACI or Arista spine/leaf, or others.
* Familiarity with SDWAN infrastructure such as Silver peak.
* Familiarity with Layer 3, 4 and 7 load balancing methodologies and protocols as well as experience with highly available network and system architectures.
* Knowledge of 801.11a/g/n/ac Cisco WLC, WLAN, CAPWAP,LWAPP and other Wireless technologies.
* Experience with Cisco IOS/NX-OS/ASA-OS, Junos, ArubaOS and/or Arista
* Solid knowledge in the use of various monitoring tools and packet capture tools such as SolarWinds Orion NCM/NPM, Wireshark, Gigamon, Netscout, Cisco DNA, etc.
* Good in software development lifecycle, ITIL, Agile, Kanban process
* You will be familiar with a variety of testing tools, networking technologies and techniques to accurately troubleshoot and resolve complex technical problems associated with the service, application and network hardware and software.
* Cisco Routing & Switching. Juniper, Arista, Aruba, Silver peak.
* BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, Layer2/Layer 3, STP, SNMP.
* SolarWinds Orion NCM/NPM, NetScout, Gigamon and Wireshark.
* Cloud automation Azure/AWS
* Ansible and/or Puppet automation tools. Python scripting.
* Workflow automation
* Layer 2 and Layer 3 and Layer 4-7 protocols
* WAN Optimization
* DNS, IPAM and DHCP
Personal Attributes
* You will be highly organized and have proven ability to operate well under pressure, working to tight deadlines
* You will have good problem management and customer service skills.
* You will have a positive attitude and be capable of remaining positive even when under immense pressure.
* You will be able to work with global teams to deliver projects, often at pace and under challenging circumstances.
* You are someone with high professional standards, who never accepts the status-quo; who challenges why things are done the way they are.
* You will be a strong communicator, both written and verbal
* You discourage hero culture and ensure the team always comes before the individual, although always ensuring for the welfare of staff at all times.
* You will always act with integrity and embrace the philosophy of treating our customers fairly (compulsory)
* You will work effectively as one IT community across the regions and the business
* You will embrace the philosophy and principles of group IT
Nice to haves:
* Cisco ACI
* CCIE
* Wireshark and high skilled troubleshooting tools.
* JNCIA-Junos
* CWNA
* ITILv3 foundation or higher
* Cisco CCNP Networks
Below is the brief introduction of SPECTRAFORCE, the benefits we offer and the disclaimers:
Established in 2004, SPECTRAFORCE is one of the largest and fastest-growing diversity-owned staffing firms in the US. The growth of our company is a direct result of our global client service delivery model that is powered by our state-of-the-art A.I. proprietary talent acquisition platform, robust ISO 9001:2015/ISO 27001 certified processes, and strong and passionate client engaged teams.
We have built our business by providing talent and project-based solutions, including Contingent, Permanent, and Statement of Work (SOW) services to over 130 clients in the US, Canada, Puerto Rico, Costa Rica, and India. Key industries that we service include Technology, Financial Services, Life Sciences, Healthcare, Telecom, Retail, Utilities and Transportation.
SPECTRAFORCE is built on a concept of "human connection," defined by our branding attitude of NEWJOBPHORIA, which is the excitement of bringing joy and freedom to the work lifestyle so our people (and clients) can reach their highest potential. Our entire workflow and teams are trained to cultivate the joy of NEWJOBPHORIA with candidates and employees throughout their engagement with SPECTRAFORCE.
Benefits: SPECTRAFORCE offers ACA compliant health benefits as well as dental, vision, accident, and hospital indemnity insurances. Additional benefits SPECTRAFORCE offers to the eligible employees include commuter benefits, 401K plan with matching and a referral bonus program. SPECTRAFORCE offers unpaid leave as well as paid sick leave when required by law.
Equal Opportunity Employer: SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at if you require reasonable accommodation.
SPECTRAFORCE is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, religion, color, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, disability or veteran status, or any other category protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws. Please contact Human Resources at nahr@spectraforce.com if you require reasonable accommodation.
Job Summary
JOB TYPE
Full Time
SALARY
$115k-136k (estimate)
POST DATE
03/10/2024
EXPIRATION DATE
04/02/2024
WEBSITE
spectraforce.com
HEADQUARTERS
Raleigh, NC
SIZE
500 - 1,000
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