Senior Network Engineer - Sunnyvale, CA Information Technology

Senior Network Engineer needed for a contract opportunity with SOC's client to work onsite in Sunnyvale, CA.



Contract Length: 6-12 months with possible extension



Job Description:

• Monitor network infrastructure and Provide L2/L3 Network support
  
• Leading a team in particular shift, handling P1/P2 escalations, coordination with other teams, follow up on incidents and changes
  
• Handle incident/tasks related to network infrastructure by following process and standard workflow
  
• Communicate to the end user and business as per incident requirements
  
• Manage Juniper routing, switching, Wireless and WAN technologies, leverage tools and automation.
  
• Manage Juniper firewalls, Site to Site VPNs, SSL VPNs
  
• Administer Radius components that interface with network devices
  
• Ability to analyze infrastructure usage and plan for growth across network elements (physical and virtual)
  
• Upgrading existing elements to new patch levels
  
• Troubleshooting complex interactions across multiple networks
  
• Write technical document including incident RCA
  
• Learn new routing, switching, wireless, and WAN technologies
  
• Improving processes, procedures, and scalability through network automation
  
• Job role involves shift rotation.
  
  

Essential Requirement

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in an appropriate field
  
• 5+ years of work experience working with Juniper/Arista/Cisco/ Aruba/Extreme Networks equipment
  
• 2+ years of experience with network capacity planning, network security principles and general network management best practices, experience working with telco's in different countries
  
• Good understanding and hands-on experience of networking protocols (eg., BGP, OSPF, ISIS, STP, QoS, COS, NetFlow, OpenFlow, MPLS, SIP, VRRP, HSRP)
  
• Experience in working with multiple teams for providing networking connectivity services to various systems in the datacenter, lab, office buildings and cloud.
  
• Experience in debugging and fixing, connectivity issues and networking devices, by coordinating with vendors, datacenter and onsite support teams.
  
• Good understanding on datacenter technologies (eg., VXLAN/EVPN/MC-Lag)
  
• Knowledge of SDWAN, WAN Optimization, Cloud Computing (AWS, Azure, Google)
  
• Experience with wireless technologies (MIST, or others)
  
• Good knowledge of Network Monitoring tools.
  
• Have experience in creating network documents and flow diagrams
  
• Knowledge of Windows, Linux
  
• Knowledge of ITIL process
  
• Experience in any of the following: IPv6, Next generation firewalls, NAC, VMWare, cloud computing
  

Preferred Skills:

• Excellent communication in English, both verbal and written
  
• High general IT knowledge
  
• Experience with Ansible, Python, and Ruby scripting would be a benefit
  

Employment Prerequisites

The following requirements must be met to be eligible for this position: successful completion of a background investigation and drug urinalysis.



SOC, a Day & Zimmermann company, is an Equal Opportunity Employer, EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability.



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