Cisco Network Engineer - St. Louis, MO - Georgia IT Inc.
St. Louis, MO
About the Job
Job Title : Cisco Network Engineer
Location : St. Louis, MO
Position Type : Contract
US Citizen, Green Card and GC_EAD Preffered.No Visa sponsorship available for this Job - no third party C2C agencies.
Responsibilities:
Essential Characteristics and Competencies
Required Education: (may include certifications, licenses and registrations)
Certificates/Licenses:
Required Skills:
Preferred Skills:
Location : St. Louis, MO
Position Type : Contract
US Citizen, Green Card and GC_EAD Preffered.No Visa sponsorship available for this Job - no third party C2C agencies.
Responsibilities:
- Architect, design, install, configure, and maintain the organization's Cisco Routers and Switches, F5 Load Balancers, Check Point Firewalls and Intrusion Detection/Prevention
- Recommend solutions to enhance network performance
- Schedule regular maintenance for the application of security patches and ACI/NXOS/IOS upgrades for network devices and software
- Work with communications vendor, if necessary, for budgetary pricing and purchases of date circuits and network devices
- Troubleshoot and resolve network problems
- Monitor network traffic via approved software
- Work with Information Security on secured configurations and policies for network devices
- Ensure procedures are followed as it pertains to Sarbanes-Oxley and update procedures as necessary
- Mitigate risks associated with vulnerability assessments initiated by Information Security
- Review and develop procedures and document resolutions
- Establish detailed procedures for training and reference
- Keep network diagrams current
- Participate in an on-call rotation
Essential Characteristics and Competencies
- Strong Ethics and Integrity, ccustomer focus, results-driven, teamwork, communications, adaptability, quality, initiative, problem solving and analysis.
Required Education: (may include certifications, licenses and registrations)
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Business Information Systems, a related discipline or equivalent experience
- 8 years' experience in network security, including firewall and VPN technology
- 8 years' experience in routing, switching and load balancing technology
- Experience with wireless technology within a corporate environment
Certificates/Licenses:
- CCNA is required, at a minimum
- CCNP is strongly preferred
- CISSP is a plus
- Additional network certifications a plus
Required Skills:
- CCNA, Cisco Routers, Cisco Technologies, Configuration, Excellent Communication Skills, Infrastructure, Network Administration, Network engineer, Policy & Procedure Guidelines, Switches, TROUBLESHOOTING
Preferred Skills:
- CCNP; CISSP; certifications
Source : Georgia IT Inc.