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TEKsystems Sr. IP Network Engineer in New York, New York
Must work 1 day a week in midtown NYC office - should be within a 60 mile radius of NYC
Our client, a large network integrator, is looking for a Sr. IP Network Engineer to help support one of their main financial clients in NYC.
The Main Responsibilities
• Internet (IP) Engineering - Lead Network Engineer responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
• Interacts with Architecture (IP and Security), Planning, Operations, Lab, Systems (NSD, alarming) to implement equipment and designs necessary to evolve the worldwide Internet backbone.
• Ability to research, write requirements to test hardware and software to ensure interoperability and validation of features, functions and behavior.
• Expertise in the certification of equipment, MOPs/network configurations.
• Layer 2 – knowledge of ethernet switching equipment and switching architectures used on company's Internet networks.
• Expert level experience with protocols used on company's Internet networks- BGP, IS-IS, MPLS, BFD and LLDP, and their use
• Detailed experience in BGP route policy and the redistribution of routes between protocols.
• Expert level knowledge and experience with BGP route reflector architecture and configurations across multiple address families.
• Expert level troubleshooting knowledge with multiple vendor routing and forwarding architectures to resolve possible production issues or design behavior issues.
• Strong knowledge the UDP and TCP protocols to help design secure and efficient Internet Networks.
• Expert level experience with creating Layer 3/Layer 4 filters and ACLs and creating configurations to meet requirements.
• Solid experience with QoS traffic classification, remarking and per class queuing. Create QoS configurations to meet Product specifications and to resolve production issues.
• Strong knowledge of distributed denial of service equipment and protocols
• Designs and configures servers on BOBJ including Dashboard Design, Explorer, Mobile integration of BOBJ, Universe Configuration.
• Applies advanced engineering and network principles, theories, concepts and technologies to solve unusually complex problems and issues
• Interacts and drives vendor requirements, resolution of bug fixes, code upgrades, and vendor development as necessary
• Resolves difficult production/interoperability problems by working with cross functional teams and applying advanced engineering and network principles, theories and concepts
• Regarded as a subject matter expert and may act as a technical project lead or provide leadership for lower level employees
• Self-motivated with problem solving capabilities, sense of urgency and accountability
What We Look For in a Candidate
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field or equivalent experience/education
• Typically 10+ years related experience or 8+ years related experience with Masters degree
• Some level of system administration experience with focus on scripting and tools such as Ansible/Puppet/Chef, Python, PowerShell etc..
• Excellent documentation/technical writing skills required
• Strong troubleshooting skills
• Financial trading experience.
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.