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Meraki Engineer (Network Engineer) — Contract / Onsite-Hybrid (Atlanta)
TekStream Solutions is hiring a Network Engineer with experience with Meraki environments for a hybrid role in the Atlanta area supporting one of our top clients. The candidate will be co-responsible for building and maintaining new lab environments out of the client site 2-3 days a week. Being onsite 2-3 days a week is non negotiable.
***PLEASE, NO 3rd party inquiries!***
Responsibilities
- Design, build, deploy, and manage enterprise networks using Cisco Meraki including:
- Security appliances (MX)
- Switches (MS)
- Wi-Fi access points (MR)
- Cellular gateways (MG)
- Configure, administer, and monitor Meraki environments using Meraki Dashboard.
- Apply a multi-year approach to Meraki configuration standards, ensuring stability, security, and consistency across sites.
- Integrate Meraki deployments with additional security services (including Cisco Umbrella, where applicable).
- Support onboarding and troubleshooting for network connectivity and device health across the Meraki stack.
- Implement automation and infrastructure workflows using Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) where applicable.
- Collaborate with internal teams and the client to document changes, manage releases, and maintain network performance and visibility.
Required Qualifications
- Minimum 2 years of experience working in enterprise environments.
- Experience building new networks and configuring Meraki firewalls, switches, access points, and cellular gateways.
- Hands-on experience with Meraki configuration, management, and monitoring (Dashboard-based operations across MR/MS/MX/MG).
- Strong multi-year experience working in Meraki configurations.
- Experience using GitHub or GitLab.
- Strong desire/experience with Meraki Dashboard API.
Preferred Qualifications
- Automation experience developing IaC using Terraform and/or Ansible.
- Programming experience with Python.
- NetMiko experience is a plus.
- Experience integrating or using Meraki with Cisco Umbrella.
- Any scripting/workflow experience that improves provisioning
Additional Qualifications (Attributes, Business &Communications)
- Shows initiative and thrives on new challenges in fast-moving enterprise environments.
- Strong aptitude to learn quickly and translate ambiguous requirements into clear technical deliverables, architectures, and implementation plans.
- Builds business acumen by understanding client and stakeholder goals and mapping technical work to outcomes.
- Quickly learns and applies product and platform capabilities (e.g., Meraki environment and related integrations) to support delivery.
- Strong communication skills across stakeholder groups, including executives, management, product teams, and engineering teams.
- Demonstrates the ability to translate technical details into clear updates for non-technical stakeholders and coordinate effectively on priorities and tradeoffs.