Hi,
My name is Hamid Raza and I am a Staffing Specialist at Sonitalent llc. I am reaching out to you on an exciting job opportunity with one of our clients.
Position – Network Engineer
Location – Onsite 5 days a week – Washington, DC – Need to be local
Duration – 6 Months+ C2H
Visa -USC,GC Only
Mode Of Interview – Phone/Skype
Note – Need LinkedIn
Job Description –
Top Skills: Bachelor’s, strong network experience on the wireless, heavy on the network side, has experience in Windows, and someone who can pitch in and help, wear multiple hats
Responsibilities
- Design, configure, and deploy company LANs, WANs, SD-WAN, and stadium wireless networks, including routers, switches, firewalls, secure proxies, load balancers, audio/video platforms, and SMTE2110 compliant broadcast networks.
- Design, deploy, upgrade, and support network monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and reporting, leveraging hands-on performance monitoring tools like SolarWinds, Zscaler, and Splunk.
- Design, deploy, and support wireless, video conferencing, and IP-based voice solutions.
- Provide and implement network security best practices using technologies such as VPNs/encryption, firewalls, secure proxies, IDS/IPS, and secure network design methodologies.
- Configure routers/switches, firewalls, VPNs, application load balancers, secure proxies, quality of service designs, and multicast video/audio over IP networks.
- Stay abreast of industry trends to proactively identify areas for growth, improvement, and development while implementing industry best practices.
- Execute advanced troubleshooting skills and tools to address network performance issues, utilizing scripting skills in languages like PowerShell, Python, or SQL for tool integration and process automation.
- Establish and maintain customer configuration management and documentation requirements.
- Provide tier 2 support for all networks.
- Produce required documentation before system hand-off to the operations team.
- Write and maintain documentation about equipment installation and operation.
- Other duties as assigned.
Minimum Qualifications
- 8+ years’ experience in planning, designing, implementing, and providing technical support for multi-vendor, multi-platform enterprise networks, ideally in a broadcast field or similar 24/7 customer-facing enterprise.
- Experience with routing protocols: IGMP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs, EVPN-BGP, and VXLAN.
- Significant experience providing layered security using firewalls, VPNs, encryption, IDS/IPS, and secure proxies.
- Detailed knowledge of 802.11 wireless technology standards – 802.11b/a/n/ac/ax/be.
- Network security and automation experience preferred.
- Strong background in cybersecurity principles and practices, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
- Experience with systems documentation and operational procedures.
- Experience working with multi-functional teams and partners.
- Experience supporting collocated networks and Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) is a plus.
- IP networking certification required (CCNA/CCDA/CCDP/CCNP/JNCIA/ACE-A).
- Ability to balance and prioritize tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; able to work effectively with staff at all levels.
- Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
- Positive demeanor and good work ethic.
- Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and direction, as well as in a team environment.
- Availability to travel for assignments.
- Good public speaking and presentation skills.
- Commitment to “internal clients” and customer service principles.
- Willingness to take the initiative and follow through on projects.
Technical Skills
- Protocols such as IGMP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs, EVPN-BGP, VXLAN, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, MPLS, SSL.
- Extensive experience with IP Multicast – dense mode, sparse mode (RPs/BSRs), and source-specific multicast.
- Routers and switches such as Cisco Nexus or Arista.
- WAN connectivity technologies (IPSEC VPN, SD-WAN, DMVPN, etc.).
- Experienced knowledge of firewalls/ACL/encryption/VPN technology – Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Cisco ASA/Firepower and associated protocols (IPSEC/GRE) and secure proxy functions.
- Ethernet Switching and Routing technologies [Spanning Tree, Access Control, QoS and PBR, VXLAN, and EVPN datacenter networking, Link Aggregation Technologies (LACP, MC-LAG, MLAG, vPC)].
- SNMP, NTP, TACACS/RADIUS, Syslog, and other critical network management/administration protocols.
- Application and load balancing products and technologies.
- Extensive experience in multi-vendor network architecture.
- Experience provisioning and solving Ethernet, MPLS, and other WAN technologies.
- Fully versed in standard Internet services such as DNS, SSL, HTTP, etc.
- Experience with video/audio over IP transmission.
- Familiarity with signal flow within broadcast/IT facilities.
- Familiarity with HVAC, Electrical, Mechanical, and data center systems.
- Able to understand routing logic, signal flow, and various systems of the signal path.
- Experience with automation and scripting (desired).
- Understanding of cloud networking.
Thanks,
Hamid Raza
Sonitalent Corp || https://www.sonitalentcorp.com/
5404 Merribrook Lane, Prospect, KY, USA
Phone: 859-659-1207
