Network Engineer

Role and Overview of the role : This is a Network Engineer position. it's a little bit kind of the execution to maintain the network sites for two facilities or two different sites. This job is going to be a little bit more on the technical side or a little bit more on the hands-on side. There's going to need to be the ability to go out there physically and check switches, check on site networks and on-site hardwares. Be able to reach back to folks , Be able to help build and maintain the infrastructure. Candidate is going to work alongside individuals in Peoria and Dallas for support. there would have to be a lot of interaction, a lot of really great communication for those two places or to be able to drive that back to those places. a candidate would most likely need to be able to run a man lift to be able to work at heights. working in and around construction equipment, mining equipment and doing simulated mining. Under the OSHA umbrella, not under MSHA, but it is an industrial environment, doing industrial activities. Top Skills :

• Networking Experience
• Infrastructure Experience
• highly technical in the network environment and be able to troubleshoot by themselves.
• Very Strong knowledge on Cisco, Routing, Switches Great Knowledge on blow Skills : Technical Skills & Experience :
• Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks
• TCP / IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, STP, HSRP, VRRP
• VLANs, VTP, EtherChannel, QoS, NAT, PAT
• SD-WAN, WAN optimization, VPN (IPSec, SSL), DMVPN
• Network segmentation and micro segmentation Security & Compliance :
• Firewalls, IDS / IPS, NAC, 802.1X, RADIUS, TACACS+
• Zero Trust Architecture, NIST, ISO 27001, PCI-DSS
• Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) integration Cloud & Virtualization :
• AWS, Azure, GCP networking and hybrid cloud connectivity
• Virtual networking (NSX, Azure Virtual Network, AWS VPC)
• Load balancers (F5, Citrix ADC, HAProxy) Monitoring & Automation :
• Network monitoring tools : SolarWinds, PRTG, Nagios, NetFlow
• Packet analysis : Wireshark, tcpdump
• Automation : Python, Ansible, Terraform, REST APIs
• Configuration management : Git, CI / CD pipelines Other Tools & Platforms :
• DNS, DHCP, NTP, SNMP, syslog
• Cisco DNA Center, Meraki Dashboard, Prime Infrastructure
• ITSM platforms (ServiceNow, Jira)
• Scripting and automation for routine tasks and reporting Education and Experience
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field (or equivalent experience).
• 8–10 years of progressive experience in IT networking or facility operations with increasing responsibility.
• Masters with 4 to 5 years of experience will be considerable.