Cisco Network Engineer - Enterprise (Remote Hybrid, Nashville)

Network Consultant
Nashville, TN – remote position with onsite work once every 1-2 weeks downtown in Nashville.
Direct Hire – 125-150K + 15% bonus, great benefits and PTO

Responsibilities:
 

• Documents, maintains, and communicates client network and network security requirements and architecture.
• Develops forward thinking models that support IT strategy and architecture.
• Develops, recommends, and supports a migration strategy to move from the current technical platforms to the future technical architecture.
• Consults in the design or selection of new systems and technical infrastructure projects.
• Consults on technology topics to third party companies doing business with Client.
• Technical lead for team as it pertains to network and network security.
• Leads and participates in professional services projects, ensuring that projects are clearly defined, systematically executed, fully documented, and business results oriented.
• Architect, design, and implement traditional, software defined, and cloud-based solutions.
• Perform configuration migrations using OEM native tools and self-maintained scripts.
• Share information and best practices with other team members.
• Produce documentation and provide detailed knowledge transfer to customers on Client supported solutions.
• Perform technical hands-on integration of various products mentioned below.

Required Skills / Experience

• 5 years’ experience architecting, designing, and deploying wired and wireless networks and network security solutions, ideally with a special emphasis (hardware and software) on as many as possible of the following vendors:
  • Aruba
  • Fortinet
  • Arista
  • Palo Alto
  • Cisco
• Experience with unified threat management solutions including firewalls, VPN, IDS, IPS, URL filtering, anti-virus, etc. using physical, virtual, and cloud-based solutions.
• Experience configuring LAN, WAN, wireless solutions by Cisco, Arista, Aruba, Fortinet, etc.
• Ability to plan, install, configure, upgrade, migrate, and support network switches and routers.
• Ability to perform physical implementation tasks (rack, stack, cable, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of LAN, WAN, DMZ and Core Routing.
• Strong knowledge of BGP, OSPF, VXLAN, and policy-based routing.
• Strong knowledge of network access control technologies such as Aruba ClearPass or Cisco ISE.
• Ability to configure and troubleshoot GRE and IPSEC tunnels.
• Ability to prioritize tasks and work assignments.
• Ability to professionally interact with clients and contractors.
• Core Competencies
• Passion for learning innovative technologies
• Excellent troubleshooting and critical analysis skills
• Flexibility and willingness to do what it takes to get the job done
• Effective communication skills both internally and externally
• Highly organized and detail oriented

Desired Skills / Experience
•           Experience performing wireless surveys and assessments using tools such as Ekahau.
•           Experience with mainstream network and systems monitoring suites such as SolarWinds, etc.
•           Experience configuring network load balancers such as F5, etc.
•           Experience performing LAN / WAN bandwidth analysis and sizing.
•           Experience deploying VMware NSX.
•           Experience with scripting/programming languages such as Python.
•           Experience producing business relevant presentations and technical oriented writing.