Cisco Network Engineer, Senior Job in Santa Clara 95054, California US
Our Client
Our client, a FORTUNE 500 company, is a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. With revenue of over $7 billion in 2011, our client's products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. As one of Fortune magazine's *Most Admired Companies*, our client promotes an open work environment, embracing change, taking risks and doing the impossible every day.
Opportunity
As a member of the Information Technology Network team and will work with various functional areas on gathering requirements, evaluating, designing, implementing, and supporting network (LAN, MAN, WAN, wireless, VPN, content networking) technologies that will enable the organization to work effectively and productively.
Responsibilities
- Define, document and implement strategy, direction and architectures for the global network environment. This requires extensive and broad functional experience with switching, routing, firewall, VPN, wireless, content networking, and network management systems across a wide range of complex architectures, platforms and mediums
- Research, design, plan, and implement new network technologies into current operating environment. Test and evaluate future looking technologies by participating in beta tests of given technologies
- Look for ways to provide enhancements to existing network services. Make recommendations, define the ROI, and implement these improvements using an accepted change control methodology process
- Define and follow standards and best practices for network design, testing, and implementation methodology. Document the environment
- Configure, deploy, fine-tune, monitor, maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, support and repair the global network as required
Requirements
- 5+ years of direct engineering and design experience in the telecommunications and/or networking industry
- Cisco CCNP/CCDP or CCIE certifications preferred
- Expertise in creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures, with fault tolerance, performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery
- Expert working knowledge (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot) Cisco routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, 802.11 wireless access points, and load balancers
- Understanding of transport protocols, routing protocols, and security/authentication protocols at all layers of the OSI model with emphasis on TCP/IP are essential
- Must have knowledge networking features and protocols such as spanning tree, ARP, CDP, EIGRP, RIP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, MLS, HSRP, QoS, multicast, 802.11, IPsec, Frame Relay, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, T- 1/E-1, BRI/PRI, MPLS, dial-up services, and caching services.
- Additional areas of expertise in areas such as VoIP, DSL, BlueTooth, dial-up, and cable access desired.
- Experience with network management tools such as Sniffers, Ethereal, MRTG, HP Openview, Whats Up Gold, Netreo Omniscient. Sniffer certification or CNX a plus
- Experience supporting Windows and UNIX products systems/applications on networking technologies. Certifications and/or experience equivalent to MCSE, Solaris, and Linux are a bonus.
Salary
There is an Excellent Salary, Bonus, Rich Equity Plan and Benefits. Relocation Package is available.
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Rachelle Iverson
BRIDGELiNX
78-28-MH1858@apply.maxhire.net