TITLE: Network Analyst III
CLIENT: Energy
LOCATION: Houston Texas
TYPE: Contract with intent to hire
SALARY or RATE: $45-55/hr Dependent on experience
URGENCY: Reviewing Resumes
SUMMARY:
The Network Analyst would be a part of the company's IT Global Networking team reporting to the Manager - Network Services. This position will work within the company's operations team to support the enterprise network and contribute to projects when needed requiring network expertise.
DUTIES:
- Actively participate in the planning, design, and implementation of network related projects
- Act as an escalation resource for reported network or application performance issues
- Manage and support the network monitoring and configuration management software
- Provide technical and architectural support for field networks to include industrial switches, routers, and wireless bridges
- Assist in developing the overall network strategy for the company globally
- Utilize the service portal to manage and create service requests, outages, and change requests
- Identify, evaluate and recommend technologies using best practices/industry standards
- 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
- International and Domestic travel may be required
REQUIREMENTS:
- The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
- Extensive design, deployment and troubleshooting experience with large enterprises
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues
- Project management and customer interfacing capabilities
- Extensive experience with Palo Alto products including Panorama, PA NextGen Firewalls and Prisma
- Extensive experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewall and wireless hardware
- Extensive experience with Solarwinds Network Management suite of applications
- Extensive experience with Wireshark and packet level analysis and application performance root cause analysis
- Experience designing and troubleshooting OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, Firewalls, IPSEC/SSL VPNs, DMVPNs, Spanning tree and network security
- Experienced with software defined networking
- High level of experience with Cisco Nexus Data Center Architecture
- High level of experience with Cisco ISE/NAC
- Working knowledge of SNMP, Netflow, IP SLA and other management protocols
- Experience working in Oil and Gas Industry - specifically with field support technicians
- CCNP certification a plus
EDUCATION:
- Bachelors degree in related field
OTHER:
- Monday to Thursday - 7.30am - 5.30pm in office and Friday 7.30am to 11.30am remotely