What we are looking for:
Role: Network Engineer
Location: Ann Arbor Michigan (Onsite)
Duration: Long-Term
What you’ll be doing:
- Must have excellent communication and leadership skills. Needs to be comfortable leading other Contingent Worker, Partners and site resources to the successful completion of network refers
- Plan, configure, implement and document solutions in a complex network environment in support of new and existing cloud technology architectures.
- Measurement, optimization, and tuning of network performance and ensuring that systems will run reliably and are highly available.
- Support a Cisco centric WAN, LAN, and WLAN environment. This includes routers, firewalls, security, WLAN.
- Deep understanding of network orchestration and automation
- Build BOM, coordinate resources, track execution, and validate deployment/upgraded equipment/site.
- Supervise and or performing site installs, maintenance, upgrades or software enhancements to support the network infrastructure needs.
- Function as a point of escalation for operational entities regarding regular or complex issues.
- Monitor system for trouble areas and proactively resolve and document root cause.
- Experience working Agile methodologies or working as part of an Agile team
What you bring (Must Haves):
- 8 to 10 years of professional experience.
- High-level teaming and communication skills to influence and persuade others.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to create and present concepts and recommendations to management.
- Deep understanding of Internet Protocol (IP) addressing and Variable Length Subnet Mask (VLSM).
- Extensive experience designing and implementing Cloud Networking Technologies and Solutions.
- Strong experience with Monitoring and Alerting Tools: CloudWatch, Grafana, Zabbix, PagerDuty, Site24x7, Nagios.
- Deep understanding of Local Area Network (LAN) switching technologies including; VXLAN, ACI, fabric path, Spanning Tree, Virtual LAN (VLAN), and VLAN Trunking Protocol (VTP) concepts.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or higher certification
- Proficient with scripting technologies, including Python, Ansible, Perl, and Terraform.
