Network Engineer from INSPYR Solutions

Title: Network Engineer
Location: Atlanta, GA 30339 - Hybrid 3 days per week onsite
Duration: Contract to Hire
Rate: $50 - $60 HR
Work Requirements: US Citizen, GC Holders or Authorized to Work in the U.S.

• Network lifecycle management of Client Standard equipment
  • Maintain valid Service Contracts on all equipment
  • Plan and process replacements according to manufacturers/Clients life cycle announcements
• Strong analytical network troubleshooting skills and proficiency with packet capture tools.
• Participate in ongoing demand analysis and network improvement initiatives.
• Optimization, Management and Troubleshooting
  • LAN (Cisco and Cisco Meraki), VLAN, STP/RSTP, DNS, DHCP, IPAM and L1/L2 issues.
  • Wireless LAN (Cisco and Cisco Meraki)
  • Firewalls (Fortinet)
  • Data connections (SD-WAN, MPLS, VPN)
• Plan, present and process network infrastructure initiatives
• Maintaining and implementation of new network standards and processes
• Management of medium sized local network projects
• Documentation
  • Changes
  • Architecture
  • Problems
• Ensure network availability.
• Able to work independently.

• Contribute to the definition and documentation of all policies and procedures, standards, design, and business rules related to network technologies.
• Avoid technical debt by developing reusable and scalable solutions.
• Improve and maintain performance, security, reliability, operations, technology, and interoperability requirements to produce high level and scalable design deliverables.
• Contribute to enterprise network technical strategy and define and document solution architecture(s) including technical designs and diagrams.
• Design and deploy dynamically scalable and highly available services using Client ´s network standards, to enable Client ´s cloud strategy.
• Participate in every aspect of the development and operational areas and design cloud network connectivity architecture.
• Create conceptual, logical, and physical design for network solutions for infrastructure and platforms.
• Research, analyze, recommend, and select technical approaches for solving difficult and challenging development and integration problems.

• Bachelor's degree within Information Technology field of study, or equivalent work experience
• Production level experience migrating and deploying current Client standard solutions.
• 5+ years of experience with Meraki/Cisco technologies and services such as switching and routing, firewall management, TCP/IP networking, VLAN Management, LAN/Wireless LAN, Spanning Tree issue resolution.
• Installing, configuring, and supporting network equipment including Switches, Wireless Controllers, Access points, Firewalls, DNS and DHCP.
• Strong experience with CISCO Meraki Switching: STP, RSTP, MST, LAN tuning/protection, VTP, VLANs and 802.1Q trunk, strong understanding of MAC /CAM/ ARP tables is a must.
• Proficient with addressing mechanisms (DNS, DHCP, IPAM, or similar), and with L1 technologies (SMF, MMF, DWDM, Transceivers)
• Proficient in packet analysis (Wireshark), Troubleshoot packet decode on TCP and UDP, Experience with performance analysis, troubleshooting and remediation techniques.
• In-depth experience with cabling technologies - Category 5, Category 6A, Single & Multi-Mode Fiber
• Deep product knowledge and understanding of Meraki/Cisco product features including Disaster Recovery, Internet of Things, Monitoring, and remote Management.
• Knowledge of ITIL Change & Configuration Management.
• 3+ years of experience architecting and developing complex high availability network designs.
• Exceptional problem-solving and crisis management skills and ability to work independently/within a team.
• Able to communicate clearly and convey necessary information.
• Able to constructively work under stress and pressure when faced with high workloads and deadlines.
• Able to independently identify challenges and demonstrate approach to solutions.
• Ability to travel within the U.S. (0-30%)
• Ability to travel globally as needed (0-10%)

• Comprehensive medical benefits
• Competitive pay
• 401(k) retirement plan
• ...and much more!