Network engineer/architect------- Need GC and USC

Network engineer/architect

Ideal candidates will be local to New Jersey but we will consider out of state candidates that are willing to relocate if they are a great fit. This contract has no end date or tenure limit. Below is the job description. Please let me know who you have! The client will interview very quickly .

Top Three Skills:

5 years or more designing and architecting Cisco Router environments

1-2 years Nexus

2-3 Years of prior experience working in a Data Center environment.

2 years of load balancers

Job Description:

WAN/Datacenter Architect/Engineer

Position Responsibilities

- Function as a WAN/LAN technology expert in the tier 3 global networks operations team.

- Design/Architect networks for Petfood Division Integration into the Data Center

- Network Architecture/Planning, Design and deploy network components for new sites and locations.

-This role will require candidate to research and recommend network hardware and architecture and integration methods.

- Management and participation in various router, switching, and firewall continuous improvement projects and activities.

Technical Skill Requirements

-Nexus 7k

-Netscaler or f5 load balancers

- Strong understanding of network concepts, including TCP/IP, IPSEC, GRE, VPNs, EIGRP, BGP, QoS, ACLs, DNS, DHCP, VLANs.

- Strong knowledge with proven experience in Cisco WAN and LAN technologies, including various router (8xx, 17xx, 18xx, 25xx, 26xx, 28xx, 36xx, 72xx) and switching (29xx, 35xx, 37xx, 65xx) platforms.

- Experience working with carrier WAN technologies, including Ethernet, MPLS, frame relay, T1, and ISDN.

- Experience in using bandwidth management solutions,

- Experience in carrier interaction, including familiarity with carrier troubleshooting tools.

- Experience working with global management tools for DNS and DHCP.

- Ability to create detailed network topology maps using MS Visio.

- Experience working with various network management tools and elements.

- Experience working in a support environment, using various ITIL processes and tools (incident management, change management, etc.)

This role focuses on the Network Cloud Infrastructure. They partner with Equinix who utilizes “Cloud Exchange” Technology

It is a hybrid cloud environment.

This resource will also be helping to support integrating network services with the new acquisition of Royal Canin based in UK

- Cisco firewall and ASA experience a plus.

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Experience with SDN and Cloud preferred

Powershell Scripting

Netscaler

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If you are interested please share your resume to preethib@usmsystems(dot)com or can directly call me on 703 468 0398.