The Talent Source has partnered with a leading enterprise to contract a talented Network Engineer. This organization offers a hybrid environment of 3 office days /2 days remote to support work - life balance.
The scope of this Network Engineer would see you responsible for:
- Serve as a technical resource for infrastructure initiatives that require telecommunications or network expertise
- Planning, design, configuration, implementation, testing and transition to steady state support of Infrastructure such as; network, telecommunication, server, storage or software across the enterprise.
- Partnering with peer engineering teams on best practices, process, standards, and configuration management.
- Evaluates vendor supplied hardware, components and software packages for fit and performance and makes recommendations to IT management.
- Maintains technical documentation for telecommunications, network, server, storage and system software applications.
- Diagnoses isolates and debugs hardware and software problems and performs problem resolution.
- Delivering solutions that are stable, secure, scalable and cost effective, as well providing escalation support to the administrators.
- Participate in on call rotation
- Coaches others
- Research, evaluate and recommend network-related software and hardware products and services
- Perform capacity and resource planning for network systems
- Assess network risks and perform contingency planning
- Provide input to supplier management team to help establish the telecommunications and network-related vendor service agreements
- Install, configure, and maintain telecommunications and network systems (hardware and software)
- Troubleshoot and resolve technical communications and network issues (tier two support)
- Provide input to supplier management team to help manage telecommunications and network-related vendor service levela greements
- Stay up-to-date on telecommunications, networks and network-related technologies
Experience Guidelines / Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelors or Technical degree in related field or equivalent experience
- 5+ years of work experience in an Infrastructure / Network Engineer / Administration function
- CCNA
- Proven experience in telecommunications and networking environments, security, storage, server and other infrastructure technologies such as Cisco Routers, Switches, Palo Alto Firewalls
- Familiarity with ITIL concepts, ITIL Foundation certified (ideal)
- Excellent verbal / written communication skills; Ability to create, read, analyze, and interpret technical diagrams and written procedures
- Strong attention to detail
- Delivers Results
- Teamwork & Collaboration
- Ability to analyze and solve problems, think outside of the box and grasp technical concepts
- Experience with design, implementation, configuration, tuning and optimization of technologies
- Provide accurate and timely updates to work tickets, incidents, and outagess