***Onsite - 5 days a week
***Location - Upper East Side NYC
Description:
Our healthcare client is currently seeking a Network Support Engineer to support IT Telecommunications and Network team. They will be supporting the 24x7 Networking and Data Center. Currently, the need is working nights and maybe weekends. The position(s) will be on-site at Primary location will be on the Upper East side of Manhattan, but person is expected to cover other sites as needed - both in Manhattan and Regionals.. The ticketing platform is ServiceNow, which would be another plus for candidates. This candidate should be a hands on network tech that can handle route switch work, change controls, Wireless support with Arista, etc. Candidate will be doing everything from physical rack and stack, configurations, installs, and remoting into equipment and setting up.
CCNA certified - with good understanding of basic networking concepts, like routing and switching.
Hands-on knowledge of Cisco hardware.
o Software upgrades
o Installation and part replacement
o Basic troubleshooting - Layer 1: physical cable, transceiver, power supply etc.
o Experience/knowledge with following would be good to have:

• Firewall ruleset
• Load balancer
• VPN

Hands-on experience with:
o Routing protocols EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP; configuring, troubleshooting, typical show commands to research issues.
o Racking and stacking Cisco 2900, 3700, 3600, 3800, 4500, 6500 series switches.
o Upgrading firmware on Cisco switches.
o Tools for upgrading firmware on Cisco switches; TFTP and FTP server, thumb drive.
o Configuration of Cisco switches in command line via console and SSH.
o Working knowledge of Cisco Catalyst line cards; multi-gig copper and fiber cards, supervisors.
o Deep understanding of Layer 1 concepts, configuration, and troubleshooting; typical show commands for verification of copper and fiber link status, quality of connection, expected transmit and receive light levels, interface counter types that indicate connection trouble, copper test and show commands to indicate cable short, media types.
Nice-to-have on-the-job hands-on experience with:
o Cisco Catalyst 6800, 9300, 9400, 9500 series switches.
o Arista EOS 7280, 7504 series switches.
o Spine-leaf architecture.
o VxLAN concepts; Understanding what VNI's and VTEP's do, verification and research of host routes in EVPN tables.
o Redistribution of routing protocols; EIGRP to BGP.
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