Cisco Engineer - Routing & Switching

Job Description :

Essential Functions :

• Design, develop, deploy, and maintain cloud-based solutions to meet business requirements.
• Integrate new solutions with existing cloud resources or on-premise infrastructure and evaluate impact to efficiently service changing business needs.
• Install, configure, test and maintain Windows Server operating systems, application software, and system management tools in a hosted Azure cloud environment.
• Design, install, configure, and proactively manage hosted and on-premise network devices such as load balancers, firewalls (Cisco & Fortinet), switches, access points, etc.
• Provide after-hours support as required for system maintenance, changes, updates, etc.
• Write and maintain PowerShell scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
• Develop and maintain technical documentation on systems configuration and usage.
• Responsible for providing statistical reports on systems availability and performance.
• Lead and / or assist with product / service investigation, evaluation, recommendation, and negotiations.
• Cross train team members on existing and new technologies as the opportunities arise.
• Knowledge of endpoint device configuration management / MDM / Intune & product O&M / lifecycle management.
• CCNA or related network certification preferred.
• Azure Certified Solutions Architect - Professional preferred.
• Experience working with Linux platforms preferred.
• Minimum 5 years' hands-on experience in the implementation and administration of complex, multi-location, multi-vendor, converged voice / data networks.
• Minimum 3 years' proven experience in cloud infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments.
• Minimum 3 years' Azure, VMWare and / or Hyper-V Virtualization administration experience.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft hosted services such as Office 365 and Azure cloud infrastructure services.
• Experience designing, managing, and migrating cloud infrastructure environments, such as Azure, DevOps, AWS, Rackspace, etc.
• Experience working with virtualization platforms such as VMWare and Hyper-V.
• Advanced knowledge of storage architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs (SMP).
• Demonstrated proficiency in network administration in a large datacenter environment - DNS / DHCP, Load Balancing (F5 Networks, AWS ELB), Firewalls (Cisco, Fortinet, IDS / IPS, IPSEC VPN).
• Excellent network latency analysis, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting skills

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