Description:

　　Essential Duties and Responsibilities include:

　　Perform the technical support and maintenance tasks necessary to operate and monitor the IT network environment and respond to problems as they arise.

　　Implement best practice processes to troubleshoot and resolve outages.

　　Works with network providers to resolve installation and outage issues.

　　Reports significant system outages and causes to IT management and provide sufficient information to perform root cause analysis.

　　Provides direct network operations support, including router and switch configuration, firewall administration, VPN support, and IDS/IPS and URL filtering support.

　　Monitors software vendors for new releases and patches and applies same as appropriate to established policies.

　　Regularly review all network systems to ensure controls are present and configurations are up to the current standard.

　　Troubleshoot and resolve network outages.

　　Configure network equipment for deployment in the network.

　　Participate as a team/project resource to complete current network improvement projects.

　　Monitor new developments in network and firewall technology and make recommendations as appropriate.

　　Participate in development and implementation of components to ensure compliance with company network standards and architecture.

　　Recommend IT network operations policy changes as appropriate.

　　Participates with on-site recovery center team in the event of a disaster.

　　Updates Network architecture, design and standards, plans and DR documentation.

　　Monitors and tests the network and firewall components of the company's evolving Disaster Recovery strategy:

　　Support required infrastructure components and connectivity solutions to all sites and services as appropriate.

　　Participate in and support drills and tests to ensure that applications, systems, and servers can be recovered as needed in the event of a disaster as well as in the event of device failures in normal operations.

　　Identifies opportunities to reduce risk and mitigate potential threats; proposes solutions as necessary.

　　Collaborates with other IT groups to ensure ongoing operation and maintenance of the IT infrastructure:

　　Testing and Implementing (new and replacement) and / or upgrade hardware components; manages implementation and distribution of upgraded applications to production environment.

　　Troubleshooting and fixing (through responsible vendors) software problems.

　　Collaborating with IT groups to maintain, problem solve and upgrade computing facilities.

　　Providing 1st level support to IT teams and users who require help.

　　Updates network appliances to remove vulnerabilities identified by IT Information Security processes; updates network standards and design as needed.

　　Develops and manages the relationship with key infrastructure vendors to ensure compliance with defined Service Level Objectives and / or contract terms and schedules.

　　Skills:

　　Network engineering, Ccna, Switches, Troubleshooting, cisco, Router, Cisco switches, Cisco routers, routing, network architecture, vpn, support, network support, network operations, network security, network infrastructure, network troubleshooting, cisco routers switches, cisco networking, firewall, checkpoint, infrastructure

　　Top Skills Details:

　　Network engineering,Ccna,Switches,Troubleshooting,cisco,Router,Cisco switches,Cisco routers,routing,network architecture,vpn,support,network support,network operations,network security,network infrastructure,network troubleshooting,cisco routers switches

　　Additional Skills & Qualifications:

　　knowledge of best practices in security and network operations.

　　Demonstrated skills to communicate difficult technical concepts clearly to a variety of individuals of varying technical expertise and understanding.

　　Possess good problem-solving skills for a complex network topology, being able to assemble a team as needed to identify issues, root causes and solutions.

　　Must be proactive in identifying and correcting infrastructure deficiencies.

　　proven track record in installing and supporting a complex network with multiple technology types, technology suppliers, and network elements.

　　Current and demonstrated competency in IT network operations, systems, and reporting including responsibility for having implemented routing and switching topologies, firewall architectures, and collateral security systems.

　　Experience being responsible for IT network operations at a large retail, financial service, or Internet Service Corporation based on Cisco networking standards.

　　Experience with the direct administration of Cisco routers and switches is required.

　　Experience with the administration of Checkpoint NG/NGx firewalls is a plus.

　　About TEKsystems:

　　We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

　　The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.

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