NO SPONSORSHIP, CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO HOUSTON
Alava Consulting is looking for a Network Engineer for our client. This will be a year long contract, located in West Houston. This is a hybrid position. 3 days in office.
Act as a resource for reported network performance or application performance issues • Manage and support the network monitoring and configuration management software • Provide technical support for field networks to include industrial switches, routers, and wireless bridges • Utilize service portal to manage and create service requests, outages, and change requests • Identify innovative ways to utilize existing applications and technologies • Forecast and coordinate management of change for scheduled maintenance weekends • Effectively communicate with end users and peers around the world
About the Role:
The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience:
Responsibilities:
Troubleshooting experience with large enterprises
Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues
Customer interfacing capabilities
Experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewall and wireless hardware
Experience with SolarWinds Network Management suite of applications
Experience with Riverbed WAN optimization appliance, Cascade and Net Profiler is a plus
Experience with Gigamon, Wireshark and packet level analysis and application performance root cause analysis is a plus
Experience using Splunk to help with troubleshooting is a plus
Experience troubleshooting EIGRP, BGP, Firewalls, IPSEC/SSL VPNs, Spanning tree and network security