Senior Network Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Mastech Digital provides digital and mainstream technology staff as well as Digital Transformation Services for all American Corporations. We are currently seeking a Senior Network Engineer -Core Infrastructurefor our client in the Food and Beverage domain. We value our professionals, providing comprehensive benefits and the opportunity for growth. This is a Contract to Hire position, and the client is looking for someone to start immediately.

Duration: 6+ Months Contract to Hire

Location: Rosemont, IL

Role: Senior Network Engineer - Core Infrastructure

Primary Skills: Cisco

Role Description: The Senior Network Engineer - Core Infrastructuremust have at least 5+ years of experience. In this role you will bemainly focused on Core Datacenter routing and switching, experience with edge routing, switching and wireless networks is still critical.

Responsibilities:

- Based on industry-best standards, develop, and maintain technical standards and system configuration documentation, physical and logical diagrams, knowledge base articles, and runbooks for the proper transition of services to external managed service providers.

- Build, maintain, and audit all related documentation as it relates to policies, standards, processes, procedures, topologies/diagrams, configuration, training, service records, support contacts, disaster recovery, and backup/recovery.

- Develop and execute automation playbooks to drive “Software Defined Networking” through scripting (e.g., Python, PowerShell, etc.) and other automation and orchestration tooling such as Cisco DNA Center, Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, and Terraform Cloud for Business and provide knowledge transfer and training to teammates and other functional areas.

- Building out networks as code through modeling tools like ‘Cisco Modeling Labs (CML)’, which can then be deployed via CI/CD pipelines.

- Responsible for software and hardware upgrades and EOL/EOS refresh as part of life cycle management, including ongoing security patching and vulnerability remediation according to established policies and standards.

- Proactively and reactively identify and remediate network performance issues and act as escalation point to review and resolve technical issues through completion, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.

- Provide Tier 3 technical expertise and support and act as escalation point for the IT Service Center and Managed Service Providers to review and resolve technical issues through completion, including root cause analysis and corrective actions.

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent

Experience: Minimum 5+ years of experience

Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses

Travel: No

Local Preferred: Yes

Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis (No C2C)

Recruiter Name: Sunil Chanana

Recruiter Phone: 919-646-8792

Equal Employment Opportunity

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