Network Engineer

Job Title : Network Engineer

Skills : Cisco / Aruba / Meraki switches / Routing Networking Experience & load balancing & public cloud & Azure cloud networking.

Experience : 6+ Years

Location : Anywhere in Canada (remote)

We at Coforge are hiring Network Engineer with the following skillset :

JOB SUMMARY

The candidates must have strong Cisco / Aruba / Meraki switches / routing networking experience (some designing) and must be prepared to answer some very complex networking questions during the interview.

Looking for Engineers, not Admin level individuals.

The Network Engineer will be part of the Global Network Delivery team that manages and deploys Network infrastructure for client locations.

This position requires analysis, design, and engineering of network solutions within the client architectural framework to meet project needs.

This position requires an engineer that will :

• Write / engineer network device configuration scripts with associated change documentation to meet project goals and deadlines.
• Implement network changes during appropriate change windows (after hours).
• Review and provide feedback on change documentation / engineering of other engineers.
• Establish processes to test applications and devices before planned network deployment to quantify their performance and recommend steps to ensure they are optimized.
• Serve as second-tier support for network operations team when needed.
• Participate in on-call support escalation rotation.
• Translate business needs into actionable deliverables.
• Manage small internal data network projects.
• Create detailed network designs that meet the customer requirements (including physical and logical) of complex network systems to meet the functional objectives of the business.
• Serves as a technical resource providing guidance and advice to associates on data, voice, and mobile network capabilities for utilizing the full capability of technology in designing effective solutions.

Qualified candidates will possess :

• 6+ years of enterprise data network / IT industry experience with a minimum of 4 working with data network technologies at an enterprise scale.
• B.S. Computer Science, Telecommunications, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Industry Certifications such as CCNP / CCIE is desired.
• Demonstrated expertise with protocol analyzers, and test equipment is desired.
• Experience working with network tools such as CA Spectrum and Wireshark.
• Expert knowledge on Cisco routers, Cisco L2 / L3 switches, load balancing, QOS, VPN, NAT, VoIP, IPSec, Multicast, DNS services, MPLS networks, network protocols (Ethernet, TCP / IP, SNMP, VLAN Trunking), and routing protocols (BGP, OSPF).
• Strong knowledge of Spanning-tree protocols (PVST,MSTP,RSTP).
• Experience working with Velocloud / Viptella SDWAN / Aruba / Meraki / Nexus / PaloAlto FW’s / Zscaler equipment is an advantage.
• Basic understanding of public cloud and Azure cloud networking.
• Experience working with Microsoft Azure is a plus.
• Firewall troubleshooting skill.
• Experience with vulnerability management.
• Basic Wi-Fi design understanding and troubleshooting skill.
• Strong experience in switch upgrades and refresh activity.
• Proven ability to manage multiple vendors in a partially outsourced IT environment.
• Excellent communications, interpersonal, and problem-solving skills with a track record as a problem solver & an effective team player is essential.
• Act as the liaison between IT verticals, vendors, the business, and the network team.
• Develop and present business case and related ROI to senior management for justification of investment in upgrades or replacement of hardware / software.
• Basic understanding of different compliances.

Please send the updated resume to [email protected]