Network Engineer II

14 Feb 2025

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Job Details:

Job Title: Network Engineer II

Duration: Long-Term Contract

Location: Alpharetta, GA Hybrid/Remote

Job Description:

BASIC FUNCTIONS:
  • This position assists in the development, operations, and maintenance of network environment, and the production Client Data Center.
  • Responsibilities include engineering changes to the network infrastructure, configuration of production servers, and maintaining the highest levels of network and systems availability.
  • Also, this position provides emergency support of production systems problems.

QUALIFICATIONS:
  • 3+ years of network engineering experience
  • BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent experience required

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
  • Strong written skills technical documentation.
  • Intermediate problem-solving skills in multiple operating environments.
  • Intermediate knowledge of network components (WAN and LAN).
  • Troubleshooting network environments.
  • Strong understanding of network security.
  • Ability to work well with other groups to plan, design, and implement work.
  • Good oral and written communications skills.

ACCOUNTABILITIES:
  • Implement and change the Wide Area Network and the Local Area Network.
  • Monitor and recommend changes and additions in data circuits and bandwidth.
  • Work with the Security Engineers to plan and implement network security including building/maintaining firewalls, applying encryption, managing host security, file permissions, and other related items.
  • Establish and maintain adequate backup and recovery for all network devices. Troubleshoot server and networking problems to correct malfunctions and other operational difficulties.
  • Develop and maintain a production network/server capacity plan so that capacity can be forecasted and equipment changes planned.
  • Develop and maintain adequate technical documentation on software configurations, installation instructions, network diagrams, backup/recovery, standards, and other related information.
  • Conduct performance monitoring and tuning on the network.
  • Learn solutions and indicators regarding security in network environment.
  • Complete assigned tasks in the Wide Area Network and the Local Area Network.
  • Install or troubleshoot programs within network environments.
  • All other duties as assigned.

What would you say are the TOP 3 must-have skills youre looking for? (Measurable skills, technologies, etc.)
  • Cisco Networking and Aruba SD-Wan
  • SolarWinds
  • Microsoft Visio

Additional Notes:
  • Team is currently using Cisco Networking Equipment in data centers and remote sites
  • Midst of changing equipment to Aruba for remote sites only SD WAN solution (Gateway, Switches, Access Points) Team will be responsible for the roll out
  • Controllers serves as router
  • 2023 Overview Get all US remote sites done including large offices such as Boca Raton
  • 2024 Overview Project transition, pass on to UK team; US team will be supporting UK team in their implementation/transition
  • Team holds keys for all things SolarWinds NPM Enterprise (Network Monitoring) PagerDuty within SolarWinds
  • Team is on an on-call duty PagerDuty to be notified (incidents, alerts, etc)
  • Team has used ThousandEyes for about a year (troubleshooting tool) plug in source & destination (shows routes/incidents where things are broken)
  • Team is in beginning stages of using NetBrain: tool to help create documentation/graphs/charts concerning network (Visio on steroids)
  • LiveAction for Meta Data on network; frame by frame look at network to pinpoint issue
  • Microsoft Visio project to map out data centers and network (strength with Visio because team is lacking a bit in areas)
  • Network Diagraming experience

Notes directly from Manager:
  • The Aruba SD-WAN solution will be used at remotes sites (offices) only. Cisco will still be used in the data centers.

Tools/Software:
  • SolarWinds NPM Enterprise
  • Aruba SD-WAN (Gateway, Switches, Access Points)
  • PagerDuty
  • Cisco Networking Equipment for Data Center & Remote Sites
  • ThousandEyes
  • NetBrain
  • LiveAction
  • Microsoft Visio

  • ID: #49201300
  • State: Georgia Atlanta 30301 Atlanta USA
  • City: Atlanta
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Contract
  • Showed: 2023-02-14
  • Deadline: 2023-03-26
  • Category: Software/QA/DBA/etc