Currently seeking a Network Engineer with Palo Alto experience.
Location: Itasca, IL. Candidate must be local to Chicago.
6 months contract to hire.
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Rate: Open
Client name: Cant not say but, this is a Software Company ( IT)
Top 3:
-Cisco Experience
- Palo Alto Experience 5+ years
-Unified Communications / UC / CUCM / UCMLooking for a Network Engineer that will be responsible for implementing, maintaining, troubleshooting and monitoring data, voice, video, and wireless networking across our global infrastructure. The ideal candidate will have a proven background in high speed and low latency networks.- Must be a good communicator and be able to work in a high paced team environment
- Must be willing to try new things and new technologies;
- Strong problem solving experience in networking, telecom and video networking is required
Responsibilities:- Install, monitor, manage, and troubleshoot, Cisco equipment including Nexus;
- Incident response and strong background in multi-vendor security devices, Palo Alto, ASA, Client VPN, SSL VPN, IDS/IPS;
- Support of VPN technologies including SDWAN, MPLS, DMVPN, IPSEC;
- Support of mixed PBX platforms including Avaya, Cisco, Asterisk;
- Global travel to support facilities and Mergers and Acquisitions;
- Proven skills in SAN networking design and support including Fiber Channel and iSCSI;
- Maintains documentation of the companies LAN/WAN infrastructure and security policies;
- Participates in 24x7 on-call rotations;
- Understands and translates business requirements into technology solutions;
- Proven track record supporting, monitoring and implementing Voice and Video networks;
Required Experience & Skills:- CCNA or CCNP Certified Engineer with 5+ years of related Cisco Networking troubleshooting and support experience: routing protocols, switches, inter-office connectivity, circuit provisioning;
- Extensive experience with Palo Alto firewalls and security process and procedures;
- Working knowledge of networking topologies, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, BGP, OSPF, LAG, Spanning Tree, VOIP, SIP;
- Experience with Unified Communication (CUCM) is a plus;
- CISSP certification is a plus;
- F5 Load Balancing experience is a plus;
- Experience with support of a global environment a plus;
- Project management experience including migration, upgrade projects, facility moves and greenfield deployments is a plus;