IT Network Engineer II

Job Title: IT Network Engineer II
Job Location: Charlotte, NY (Remote)
Job Duration: 12 Months (Possible of extension)
Shift: Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm EST
Payrate: $43.33/ hr on w2

Job Summary:

• Configure and support network devices and solutions to align with Client's technology standards and meet the connectivity needs of our businesses.
• Client's Network team plans on refreshing legacy layer 2 and layer 3 Cisco assets with Arista DCS and CCS platform switches using Arista AVD and Cloudvision.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Serve as network subject matter expert, providing technical expertise, design skills, etc.
• Support network solutions including routing, switching.

For these services the candidate will be:

• Deploying, maintaining, and administering network environments, predominantly those in our distributed sites, including WAN, LAN, network software, hardware, and tools.
• Strong understanding and implementing of EIGRP/OSPF/BGP routing protocols.
• Strong understanding of Cisco and Arista DCS and CCS platforms with ability to use Arista AVD and Cloudvision.
• Troubleshooting, diagnosing, and resolving hardware, software, and other network and system problems.
• Participating in root cause analysis on incidents, helping to drive identification of preventative actions meant to ensure problems don’t recur, and delivering on the tasks within those actions.
• Creating, reviewing, updating, and vetting technical functional specification, low-level network solutions design documentation and operations guides/runbooks, ensuring those are complete, correct and kept current.
• CCNP or equivalent Arista certification.

• 4-year Bachelor's degree, or equivalent combination of education and experience (preferred).
• Associates degree plus relevant experience (minimum required).

Work Experience:

• 4-5+ years of experience analyzing requirements for implementing, supporting, and troubleshooting network devices/functions/tools/processes in a large enterprise or Telecommunications environment.

• 1 hour Video Panel Interview with hiring manager and technical lead.