NO SPONSORSHIP, CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO HOUSTON
Alava Consulting is looking for a Network Engineer for our client. This will be a year long contract, located in West Houston. This is a hybrid position. 3 days in office.
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 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
About the Role:
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
Responsibilities:
- Troubleshooting experience with large enterprises
- Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues
- Customer interfacing capabilities
- Experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewall and wireless hardware
- Experience with SolarWinds Network Management suite of applications
- Experience with Riverbed WAN optimization appliance, Cascade and Net Profiler is a plus
- Experience with Gigamon, Wireshark and packet level analysis and application performance root cause analysis is a plus
- Experience using Splunk to help with troubleshooting is a plus
- Experience troubleshooting EIGRP, BGP, Firewalls, IPSEC/SSL VPNs, Spanning tree and network security
- Experienced with software defined networking
- Experience with Cisco ISE/NAC is a plus
- Working knowledge of Cisco Collaboration products
