What are the responsibilities and job description for the Cisco Network Engineer position at Vernovis?
Job Title: Cisco Network Engineer
Location: Cincinnati OH (Onsite)
Who We Are:
Vernovis is a Total Talent Solutions company that specializes in Technology, Cybersecurity, Finance & Accounting functions. At Vernovis, we help these professionals achieve their career goals, matching them with innovative projects and dynamic direct hire opportunities in Ohio and across the Midwest.
Come join us:
Vernovis is looking for a Cisco Network Engineer responsible for the architecture, engineering, administration, and operational support of our client’s enterprise network infrastructure. This individual will play a key role in designing and implementing next-generation networking solutions while ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of a complex multi-site environment. In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities, this person will act as a Tier 3 escalation resource, partner with vendors, support disaster recovery initiatives, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to other infrastructure team members. The ideal candidate combines deep networking expertise with strong troubleshooting, architecture, and communication skills and is comfortable working across traditional networking, security, cloud, and software-defined networking technologies.
What You'll Do:
Vernovis offers Health, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Short & Long -Term Disability, Voluntary Life Insurance, and 401K.
Vernovis does not accept inquiries from Corp to Corp recruiting companies. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and not violate any immigration or discrimination laws.
Vernovis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://vernovis.com/privacy-policy-2/.
Location: Cincinnati OH (Onsite)
Who We Are:
Vernovis is a Total Talent Solutions company that specializes in Technology, Cybersecurity, Finance & Accounting functions. At Vernovis, we help these professionals achieve their career goals, matching them with innovative projects and dynamic direct hire opportunities in Ohio and across the Midwest.
Come join us:
Vernovis is looking for a Cisco Network Engineer responsible for the architecture, engineering, administration, and operational support of our client’s enterprise network infrastructure. This individual will play a key role in designing and implementing next-generation networking solutions while ensuring the reliability, security, and performance of a complex multi-site environment. In addition to hands-on engineering responsibilities, this person will act as a Tier 3 escalation resource, partner with vendors, support disaster recovery initiatives, and provide technical leadership and mentorship to other infrastructure team members. The ideal candidate combines deep networking expertise with strong troubleshooting, architecture, and communication skills and is comfortable working across traditional networking, security, cloud, and software-defined networking technologies.
What You'll Do:
- Designs, installs, maintains, and supports a large enterprise network infrastructure.
- Architects and engineers next generation networking solutions.
- Analyzes network performance data and statistics, prepares reports and recommends changes and improvements to ensure performance and availability objectives.
- Stays current with network trends to support new applications, incorporating industry standards and best practices.
- Interfaces with vendor support service groups for contract renewals and to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
- Participates in the implementation of disaster recovery solutions and the execution of periodic disaster recovery tests.
- Provides training and mentoring to other staff on technical topics and network design.
- Performs Tier 3 support for the network infrastructure when problems or issues cannot be resolved by Help Desk or Tier 2 support staff.
- Perform other duties as assigned by management.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology or commensurate selection criteria experience.
- Proven experience supporting a large enterprise network infrastructure that includes Cisco Catalyst and Nexus platforms.
- Proven experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting VPN or SASE services is a plus.
- Proven experience installing, configuring, and troubleshooting firewalls. Check Point experience is a plus.
- Strong understanding of Software Defined Networking and/or supporting Cloud environments is a plus.
- Strong understanding of Cisco Catalyst Center is a plus.
- Proven experience with Cisco security products such as Identity Services Engine (ISE) is a plus.
- Proven experience with Juniper Mist wireless technologies is a plus.
- Strong understanding of network flow analysis tools.
- Strong understanding of network routing protocols: OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, OMP, and/or MPLS.
- Understanding of VMware vCenter, ESXi 7.x, and Cisco Unified Computing Systems (UCS) is a plus.
- Cisco CCNA or CCNP certification is desirable.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, ability to grasp new concepts and apply them.
- Ability to work under multiple deadlines and minimal supervision.
- Demonstrated ability to understand and analyze customer requirements and provide appropriate solutions.
- Strong communication and documentation skills.
- Demonstrated calm and professional demeanor when handling demanding situations.
- Proven experience in completing assigned tasks accurately and on a timely basis. Cite examples of project management experience in planning, executing and maintaining a project from start to finish.
Vernovis offers Health, Dental, Vision, Voluntary Short & Long -Term Disability, Voluntary Life Insurance, and 401K.
Vernovis does not accept inquiries from Corp to Corp recruiting companies. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis and not violate any immigration or discrimination laws.
Vernovis provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local laws.
This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.
By applying for this job, you agree to receive calls, AI-generated calls, text messages, or emails from and its affiliates, and contracted partners. Frequency varies for text messages. Message and data rates may apply. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages. You can reply STOP to cancel and HELP for help. You can access our privacy policy at https://vernovis.com/privacy-policy-2/.