Network & Telecom Engineer-Cisco

The Position

The Network & Telecom Engineer will be responsible for implementing, monitoring and maintaining all company networks and telephony configurations. We have adopted a Cisco networking standard for all switch, router, and firewall hardware and as such we need someone with hands-on practical Cisco networking experience.Our wide area network (WAN) consists of 106 sites across the United States, Canada, Mexico and India and is a Fortinet SDWAN design. Additionally, the company has recently migrated the Cisco phone system from an on-premise configuration to the Cisco Cloud, utilizing Webex Calling and Webex Contact Center. As such, this position will work closely with a 3rd party managed services organization in support of these platforms as well.

Our ideal candidate will possess the following traits :

• Results-driven and self-motivated to manage multiple tasks, projects, and workload
• Strong verbal and written communication skills to support to the needs of our production facilities, warehouses, and sales centers, to help align IT with the needs of the business
• Drive to learn the environment and current configurations to challenge the status quo and recommend best practice configurations for our environment.
• Team player who can also work independently on projects and objectives to become an asset for team and organization.
• Strategic thinker who learns of new networking methodologies for future design and implementation in our network
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills, with a customer centric focus on Service Availability.
• Desire to understand and identify the root cause of issues, to implement change that prevents issues from re-occurring.
• Possesses and maintains knowledge, skills and experience with Cisco wireless networks including WLC’s (Wireless Lan Controllers)
• Accepts direction and is coachable

Responsibilities and Skills Required

Beneficial Skills and Certifications