What are the responsibilities and job description for the Network Specialist position at Akkodis?
Akkodis is seeking a Network SME Engineer for a Contract job with a client in Alpharetta, GA. Ideally looking for applicants with a solid background in the networking as SME with CCIE Lab certification would be mandatory. And Ansible would be big plus.
Rate Range: $65/hour to $75/hour; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.
Network SME Engineer’s Roles & Responsibilities:
- Candidate’s focus will be developing solutions which involves Campus, DC network and Cloud with IPV4/IPV6.
- Candidate would be required to identity various communication scenarios between end and edge devices and create and execute and/ or oversee the testing of data gathering, aggregation, and analytics capabilities.
- The successful candidate would have a deep understanding and hands on experience with IPV4/IPV6 environment, strong knowledge on the Networking Routing and switching, Complex BGP, OSPF troubleshooting and also good experience in migrations.
Experience Required:
- Minimum 12 yrs of relevant experience in enterprise network environment/customers
- Strong in Routing & Switching. Proficiency in routing protocols
- Troubleshoot overall networking and network connectivity to IoT devices/sensors
- Knowledge on Cisco ISE, TACACS, DNS/DHCP Functioning are important
- Cisco certification- CCIE Lab Certification is mandatory (Routing & Switching or Service Provider).
Technical/Functional Skills:
- Networking (Routing and Switching), Cloud and IPV6
- Excellent Knowledge of Network protocols BGP, OSPF, Spanning Tree protocol, Multicast
- Design and troubleshoot Cisco, Arista Network platforms and protocols
- IP Routing Platforms: ISR, ASR1K, ASR9K, Catalyst 9K, Nexus9K
- Multicast: IGMPv2/v3, PIM, Static RP, RP-Anycast
- Overlay technologies like IPSEC, DMVPN, VXLAN
- Cabling and optics 10/25G/40G/50G/100G – Break out cables, break out panels.
- Ansible knowledge is a huge plus
- IPV6 Experience
If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, feel free to contact me at umesh.shukla@akkodisgroup.com
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Salary : $65 - $75