W2 ONLY. NO C2C/ CORP-CORP / 1099 CANDIDATES.
2 year contract.
Client: A major global financial services network enabling advances in the payments ecosystem by leveraging technologies to create a stronger digital economy. Annual gross revenue earnings at $25B and employ over 30,000.
Overview:
Seeking a Lead Network Engineer who will be responsible for the design, architecture, implementation, security and support of large multi-site, multi-vendor network communication environments.
Role:
- Manage network projects.
- Develop detailed requirements for upgrading existing corporate and Client networks, as well as re-architecting network segments in order to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
- Resolve network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.
- Participate in telecommunications-related initiatives.
- Research and develop innovative solutions around unified network solutions.
- Support assigned regional projects, which include responsibility for planning, time and cost control, resource utilization and implementation.
- Provide strategic technical direction on highly complex network systems project or activities involving the selection and recommendation of design approach and systems software technology.
Qualifications:
- Ability to be employed with TechnoSmarts as a W2 employee.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
- 7 – 10+ years of overall IT experience in networking, LAN/WAN, firewalls, wireless, security and encryption technologies.
- Cloud experience with AWS or Azure.
- Experience with TCP/IP protocol communications.
- Knowledge of Cisco’s and Arista product portfolio.
- Firewall experience with Check Point and Palo Alto.
- Load balancer experience such as: F5 or Citrix Netscaler.
- Knowledge of network diagnostics, BGP, SNMP, VPN, SSH, MPLS technologies.
- SASE experience such as Prisma Access or Netscaler is a plus.
- Citrix is a plus.
- Some project management experience.
- Knowledge of project management methodology and best practices.
