Network Engineer

Company: Collabera
Location: Houston
Posted on: February 12, 2025

Job Description:

Position Details:

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Company: Energy sector
Title: Senior Network Engineer
Location: Houston, TX
Schedule: Hybrid
Duration: Direct Hire role/ Fulltime employment
Salary: $120K - 155K

Position Summary:
The Senior Network Engineer position is part of company's Network Team, and Infrastructure Organization. This position is responsible for supporting, configuring, and implementing network devices, and telephony architectures. The position is also responsible for network security, response, incident management, and security event participation.

Other responsibilities include strategic development to ensure performance, availability, integrity, and security of the company's LAN and WAN infrastructure. Monitoring and improving network performance and utilization to provide network high availability and redundancy.
Execute on future expansion requirements including the installation and testing of network and telecommunication system upgrades and patches when needed. Develop security measures to safeguard all company networks.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities
Act as Subject Matter Expert and Technical Lead for all data network-based technologies, including routers, switches, firewalls and Wi-Fi
Ability to design and deploy end-to-end enterprise networks.
Leads and drives Network Security efforts including design, technical investigations, event resolution, data collection, and analysis.
Monitor network performance and ensure system availability and reliability
Provides support to technical Information technology teams and lead advanced troubleshooting efforts. Perform root cause analysis, problem isolation and incident resolution.
Create and implement network security measures, and maintain security measures to defend against outside threats or malicious attacks
Drives continuous improvement and efficiency across network infrastructure
Technical management and oversight for deploying and maintaining global network infrastructure.

Requirements
Minimum of 7 years of experience working as an IT Senior Network Engineer in a corporate environment with experience of Cisco Enterprise routing and switching, network design, deployment, configuration, and high level troubleshooting experience is desired.
Strong understanding of EIGRP, BGP, OSPF routing and Cisco IOS
Extensive in-depth knowledge of Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) solutions, architectures and deployment projects preferably with Broadcom VeloCloud.

Expert knowledge of LAN, WAN, WLAN, design and implementation experience
Experience with network capacity planning, network security architecture, and general network management best practices
In-dept experience in Meraki switches and WAPS including familiarity with Meraki dashboard for configuration, monitoring, and troubleshooting.
Experience in designing, implementing, and troubleshooting network security solutions.
Hands-on experience with Cisco Firepower appliances, Cisco Next Generation Firewalls and Firewall Management Center (FMC)

In-depth knowledge of Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE), including deployment, configuration, and troubleshooting.
Experience in IT Planning, including project planning, design, working with support vendors, configuration planning, deployment, high availability/business continuity and maintenance
Excellent communication skills for collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Certifications:
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification required, CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure certification desirable.

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