Sr. level Network Analyst
Type of hire : 12+ Months
Location : Houston, TX (Onsite) - Locals
Needs strong Cisco routers, switches, firewalls ASA
3 top skills
Strong in Firewalls - swapping over from Cisco to Palo firewall -someone super strong in Cisco firewall and voice
Strong in Routers
Must be able to interface and manage work of 3rd party engineers that are doing the conversion
Manager notes - Need Network Administrator candidates that have heavy Firewall experience.... Meaning they can configure firewalls, not just troubleshoot them.
Heavy Cisco experience as well. ASA experience. Will be troubleshooting networks so experience doing that on the frontline...good comm. Is required.
Description :
The Network Analyst, for CLIENT Corporation will be a member of CLIENT's IT - Global Networking team at the company's Houston, office reporting to the Manager - Network Services
This position will work within CLIENT's operations team to support CLIENT's enterprise network and contribute to projects when needed requiring network expertise.
The successful candidate will be able to :
- Act as a resource for reported network performance or application performance issues
- Manage and support the network monitoring and configuration management software
- Provide technical support for field networks to include industrial switches, routers, and wireless bridges
- Utilize CLIENT's service portal to manage and create service requests, outages, and change requests
- Identify innovative ways to utilize existing applications and technologies
- Forecast and coordinate management of change for scheduled maintenance weekends
- Effectively communicate with end users and peers around the world
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience :
Troubleshooting experience with large enterprisesStrong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issuesCustomer interfacing capabilitiesExperience with Cisco routers, switches, firewall and wireless hardwareExperience with SolarWinds Network Management suite of applicationsExperience with Riverbed WAN optimization appliance, Cascade and Net Profiler is a plusExperience with Gigamon, Wireshark and packet level analysis and application performance root cause analysis is a plusExperience using Splunk to help with troubleshooting is a plusExperience troubleshooting EIGRP, BGP, Firewalls, IPSEC / SSL VPNs, Spanning tree and network securityExperienced with software defined networkingExperience with Cisco Client / NAC is a plusWorking knowledge of Cisco Collaboration productsExperience working in Oil and Gas Industry - specifically with field support technicians