Title: Lead Network Engineer

How many openings?
1 opening
Contract Length: 6 months with plan to convert to full time- if they are on the fence, they will extend to 12 months.
Hours: (Ask about OT)

• This person must embrace afterhours and weekend work because clients will sometimes have maintenance work that needs done on the weekend.
• MF 8-5 if there's consistent weekend work, this would warrant switching their work week to starting on Wednesday.
• 40hour week.
• Could be some overtime if the workload warrants it.
• Central or mountain time would be to their advantage but not opposed to East Coast

Locations:

• Fully Remote

Pay rate max:
$70/hour

Reason for the opening:
Will be working on multiple projects.
This team gets involved when the customer is interested in buying services from company.
A lot of Companies customers are not network savvy.

• For example: Customer comes in and wants Companyto do the design routing.
• This team is essentially the turn key for the client.

Team Background:
2 Architects and a delivery manager- Would be on their own in the maintenance windows but would be able to lean on architects in other phases

Day-2-Day:

• Participate in technical and design discussions with IT executives to help enterprises speed their adoption of SDWAN / SASE technologies and practices
• Act as a trusted advisor to ascertain client requirements and lead implementation discussions to ensure the appropriate solutions proposed are designed successfully.
• In collaboration with the client engagement teams, assist with running customer network transformation workshops.
• Field technical questions and educate customers on the value proposition regarding CompaniesManaged and Professional and Managed Network Consulting Services including assessment, consulting, migration and optimization services.
• Technical contribution to Proposals and Responses to RFI/RFP/RFTs.
• Support various marketing activities, which may include speaking at industry conferences, presenting webinars, and engaging in community events.
• Fluency in implementing and designing complex SD WAN and MPLS solutions.
• Do a knowledge transfer session to know how to deploy tool for customer, gather data.
• Wants someone who is a senior engineer to take a Method of procedure from architects Example: Have two firewalls in parallel and wants to simplify
• Wants someone to come in and take steps to configure and trouble shoot and be able to roll it back if needed

Must haves:

• BGP & OSPF Routing protocols need to be proficient in Cisco
• Need to have experience setting up VPN connection from router to aggregator connection.
• SD Wan EXP Could be any type of SD but this is a must have.
• 5+ years of implementation experience
• Need to be comfortable talking to customers they needprevious exposure as customer facing exp is crucial
• Bachelor of Science Technical degree or equivalent exp (Computer Science or Engineering background preferred) Or CCNA + CCNP Certifications will cancel out degree requirement
• Flexibility and ability to plan, prioritize, and execute multiple tasks in a fast paced environment.
• Self motivated, well-organized, and detail oriented
• Onshore-Fully remote, can sit in any time zone.

Pluses:

• Cisco Meraki would be a plus since their team does not have experience with that.
• Monitoring Tools, such as looking at network utilization reports.
• Any Automation exp would need script experience such as python

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