Network Architect - Lansing, United States - Sira Consulting An Inc 5000 Company

    Sira Consulting An Inc 5000 Company
    Sira Consulting An Inc 5000 Company Lansing, United States

    3 weeks ago

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    Role: Network Architect

    Location- Lansing, MI (Day 1 on-site)

    Duration- 12+ Months Contract

    NOTE Looking for CISCO ACI exp is must

    Roles and Responsibilities:

    The role requires a flexible, senior/lead engineer who is capable of managing multiple work streams in a fast-paced enterprise environment. Manage the P1/P2 MIM bridges and handle customer escalations. Should be flexible and instrumental in addressing customer expectations in business & non-business hours efficiently. Deploy Network infrastructure and execute services covering the installations, testing, cutover, migration and troubleshooting.

    • Responsibility for various stages of the network operations and development. This may include: design, analysis, configuration, testing and fixing issues with the network infrastructure or application components
    • Responsible for patch management, driving code updates, inventory management.
    • To assist in the planning, design, and implementation, of data network projects.
    • Provide technical support for projects as required
    • Advance trouble shooting on operational issues (L3 Level)
    • Configure and utilize a variety of network management tools (Solarwind, Netflow)
    • Should be able to manage the technical escalations and drive Major INC bridges.
    • Should be able to support EST working hours, working in shifts and on-call support.

    Skills required:

    • Should have years of relevant experience.
    • Strong Knowledge and hands on experience in Cisco catalyst switches and Nexus 5k, 7k, 9k etc.
    • Knowledge and hands on experience in OSPF, ISIS, BGP, IP MPLS in enterprise or service provider networks
    • Strong knowledge on VPNs, Authentication (TACACS, AAA, PKI), 802.1x, NAC (Cisco ISE).
    • Excellent skills in Configuring and troubleshooting Cisco routers and switches, firewalls.
    • Must have: Very good understanding of new age technologies like Cisco FirepowerASA, Checkpoint etc and Zscaler
    • Must have: Hands-on experience on F5 Load balancer (LTM, GTM)
    • Preferred to have: Strong Knowledge on Cloud networking in Oracle cloud & Azure cloud.
    • Good to have: Knowledge on ISE implementation, maintenance and troubleshooting