<p>Kforce is working with a client in search of a Senior Network and Telecommunications Engineer with at least 8 years of hands-on experience with a multisite Cisco network infrastructure, to join their team! This position is full time, direct hire and hybrid on-site 3-days a week near Vauxhall, NJ.</p> <p>The Senior Network Engineer will manage many technical areas with a focus on the following:</p> <ul> <li>Cisco switches, routers and firewalls </li><li>Fortinet firewalls and SD-WAN </li><li>Kemp load balancer </li><li>Internet and WAN circuit topology and design </li><li>High availability network design, configurations and implementations </li><li>Ubiquiti wireless access points and controllers </li><li>Telecommunications and the migration to cloud </li></ul> <p>Duties and Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Support, install, and improve existing network infrastructure </li><li>Gather requirements from business stakeholders </li><li>Design and architect network solutions </li><li>Research new technologies and methodologies </li><li>Develop and document specifications, researching vendors and solutions for comparison, and estimating initial and recurring costs for these solutions </li><li>Help the business leverage the Internet-of-Things for strategic growth </li><li>Act as an escalation point for other members of IT </li><li>Work with 3rd party service providers to address outages and disruptions </li><li>Respond to business-critical emergencies, both during and after business hours </li><li>Determine action plans to address issues, communicating proactively with service users and stakeholders </li><li>Develop and implement procedures for management, including reporting of performance KPI's </li><li>Perform regular compliance audits of systems </li><li>Develop network lifecycle plans </li><li>Document and maintain the current environment </li><li>Manage and negotiate with key network and telecommunications vendors* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required </li><li>Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE) a plus </li><li>8+ years of experience in the IT industry designing, implementing, and supporting a multisite network infrastructure </li><li>Awareness and familiarity with ITIL/SDLC concepts and principles </li></ul> <p>In depth and hands on experience with:</p> <ul> <li>Fortinet and Cisco ASA/Firepower firewalls (CLI/ASDM), Nexus and Catalyst core and edge switches, ISR routers </li><li>Kemp load balancers </li><li>Content Filtering (Barracuda and Fortinet) </li><li>BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, VxLAN, IP SLA, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VRF, Spanning-Tree, 802.1p/q, vPC and other high availability configurations and advanced network implementations </li><li>Firewall ACL, NAT, Policy and Route based L2L VPN configurations, SD-WAN </li><li>Nagios, PRTG, NetFlow, SNMP and other network monitoring tools </li><li>Troubleshooting IP/TCP/UDP using tools/techniques such as Wireshark, Cisco CML/VIRL, Traceroute, Firewall Packet-tracer, Syslog (Sumo Logic) </li><li>Network Taps and Packet Brokers </li><li>Ubiquiti WLAN APs, controllers, 802.1x </li><li>Visio, Excel, Word, Confluence, etc. </li><li>Understanding of carrier transport technologies such as MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, SDH </li><li>Understanding of traditional analog and digital telecommunications </li></ul>