UpTalent
Network Engineer
San Antonio, Texas•Contract
$54 hourly
$54 hourly
About the Job
Network Engineer:
This is an exceptional opportunity to work with an Oil&Gas Services company in San Antonio, Texas
Job Description:
Pay Rate: $54/hr with Medical, Dental and Vision under a W-2 Contract to Hire
Responsibilities:
- Responsible for Operations Network Support – script development, device configuration management, system administration, hardware support, software support, maintenance, security, troubleshooting.
- Responsible for solution design, development, integration and enhancements to meet the business needs and project requirements. Also, responsible for documenting and developing operational procedures and provides end user support.
- Ensures monitoring network engineering performance and system availability and reliability.
- Leads all configurations and installs of various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS).
- Performs highly complex network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations.
- Monitors performance and ensure system availability and reliability.
- Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning.
- Assist in the development and implementation of security policies and procedures.
- Initiates, facilitates and promotes activities to create information security awareness within the organization.
- Performs information security risk assessments and serves as an internal expert for information security related issues.
- Provide Level 3 support and troubleshooting to resolve highly complex issues.
- Works within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure.
- Selects and implements security tools, policies, and procedures in conjunction with the company’s security team using wide latitude for independent judgement.
- Acts as the primary liaison with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
Minimum Qualification:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Business Computer Systems, Management Information Systems or related field from an accredited university.
- Relative experience in system management for network engineering.
- Demonstrated Associate level experience with Network Engineering
- Experience with networking protocols (e.g., IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS).
- Solid knowledge of OSI or TCP/IP models.
- Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools.
- Experience with cloud environments.
- Proven experience with Cisco ACI or Cisco Nexus Data Center technologies.
- Knowledge of key concepts in security management (vulnerability management, patch management, incident response).
- Skill in assessing security controls based on cybersecurity principles and frameworks.
- Experience as a Network Administrator in a field supporting critical systems and providing technical solutions.
- Relative experience in supporting utility construction & maintenance.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Relative experience in supporting utility construction & maintenance.
- Professional level networking certification ( CCNP, CCDP, F5-CTS, VmWare VCP, Vmare VCAP).
Note that if you get hired you must undergo a background check, a driving records check and a drug screening
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