Devonshire Recruiting and Consulting Partners is currently seeking a Network Engineer to lead maintenance, monitoring as well as implementation of the firm’s global network and telecommunications infrastructure.  This role is designated for a technical expert in WAN, LAN and Firewall/Security technologies and troubleshooting that is independently driven and an excellent project manager.

Responsibilities

• Network Engineering
  • Contributes to design and implementation of global network infrastructure.
  • Contributes to corporate network roadmap and planning with management team.
• Network Operations
  • Responsible for management, maintenance and monitoring of all network and telecommunications infrastructure and systems.
  • Primary responsibility for the firm’s global network.
  • Manages the development of network monitoring and reporting systems.
  • Responsible for ongoing monitoring of and reporting on all network and telecommunications infrastructure and systems.
  • Ensures all service disruptions are resolved within service level expectations.
  • Performs root-cause analysis to resolve underlying issues.
  • Maintains stock levels on all infrastructure needs (e.g. SFPs, network cables, rack supplies).
• General Operational Support
  • As a member of IT team, provides direct operational support to PEP users as required.
  • Provides executive (residential) network support.

Qualifications:

Technical Requirements:

• Must have expert level in implementation, management and support of the following technologies:
  • Global, highly available Cisco WAN/LAN Infrastructure
  • Routing – OSPF/EIGRP/BGP
  • LAN Switching – Spanning-tree, VLANs, Etherchannel/trunking, Switch stacks
  • Strong Data Center networking experience
  • OSI Model, TCP/IP, IP addressing and subnetting
  • Cisco Router/Switch Platforms
    • Catalyst Switches
    • Nexus 5k/9k
    • Integrated Service Routers – 45xx/44xx series
  • Firewall – NAT, Security zones and ACL’s, High-availability/Failover
  • Wireless LAN Technologies
    • Preferably multiple Wireless hardware experience (Cisco/Aruba/Meraki/etc)
    • Security associated with WLAN (802.1x/Certificate Authentication)
    • Very strong wireless troubleshooting skills
  • VPN – Remote Access and Site-to-Site
  • Cisco Firewall Platforms and VPN
    • Cisco ASA 5510/5515-X
    • Cisco ASA 5500-X with FirePOWER Services
    • Cisco AnyConnect VPN Client
  • Application Load Balancing (Exchange 2010) – F5 BigIP Global Traffic Manager and Local Traffic Manager
  • DNS Management – Internal (Windows AD Integrated) and External
  • Internet, MPLS,VPLS, Layer 2 Fiber and EPL circuit implementation/troubleshooting as well as ISP management.
  • Network Health and Performance Monitoring (currently using LogicMonitor)
• Strong foundational understanding, and work experience in following technologies preferred:
  • Cisco SourceFire IPS
  • Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS)
  • WAN Aggregation (Cisco iWAN)
  • Internet circuit high availability (BGP)
  • VMware and VMWare Site Recovery Manager (Site replication and failover)NetApp and Nimble storage
  • Microsoft Windows 2008/2012 Active Directory
  • Aruba Wireless Controller
• Strong troubleshooting skills; capable of resolving problems in a timely fashion
• Experience in infrastructure security and information security would be a plus
• Experience in network performance troubleshooting (ex. Wireshark)