Network Engineer required at Chicago IL for Onsite Role.

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Hello

Role: Network Engineer

Location: Chicago IL

Key Skills and Experience

· 10+ years experience in network engineering. Experience network engineering and operation with an enterprise organization preferred.

· 5+ years of experience leading project teams and/or mentoring junior engineers.

· In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.

· Experience working with SDN solutions such as Cisco ACI, VMware VNX

· Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.

· Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a

plus):

o Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture

o F5 LTM/GTM

o Cisco UCS & Nexus

o Cisco ACI

o Cisco WAAS, WCCP

o Cisco security solutions

o Cisco ISE

o Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions

o QoS, prioritization of voice and video

o Network automation

· Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures

· Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.

· Scripting skills are a plus

· Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.

· Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment

· Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.

· Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation

 

Thank you,

Naresh (Nick)

Email: ni...@sapphiresoftwaresolutions.com