Title: Lead Network Engineer (Contract)- JobLocation: Springfield, MA area/ Hybrid Remote
Job Description: Our client located in the Springfield, MA area area has an immediate opening for a Lead Network Engineer to join their team. The Lead Network Engineer will work in the Infrastructure Services Department.
Responsibilities - Provide network expertise on projects as a Lead Network Engineer to architect, document, implement and oversee key IT initiatives, across multiple regions, data centers and mixed vendor technologies
- Assess organizational needs and make recommendations to influence the technical direction of the team and organization, promoting efficiency, reliability, excellence, and continuous improvement
- Manage network policy changes using change management workflows and GitOps
- Lead incident investigations, diagnosis and service restoration of emerging network issues
- Conduct reviews of network systems to proactively identify problems and design, pitch, implement, and lead technical solutions
- Consider Application state in relation to network infrastructure, while being able to advocate and explain mission to various levels of technical audiences
Required - Bachelor degree in Information Technology related field of study with a network engineering focus, or equivalent experience
- One or more relevant certifications such as CCNP and/or AWS Certified Advanced Networking
- Knowledge of IPv6 concepts and methods of deployment
- Experience leveraging Ansible, Terraform and GitOps for Configuration Management and related workflows
- Knowledge of Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Palo Alto Prisma Cloud, Prisma Cloud for AWS
- Demonstrated experience integrating corporate networks, including point-to-point/VPN, with AWS as well as AWS via Direct Connect
- Demonstrated experience working with Internal/External BGP enterprise deployments
- Experience working with wavelength-division multiplexing technologies
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, writing, documentation and customer service skills
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