job summary
Randstad Digital is hiring and we're looking for someone like YOU to join our team! If you are seeking a new opportunity, looking to grow in your career, or you know someone who is - we want to hear from you! Take a look at the below opportunity, or feel free to visit RandstadUSA.com to view and apply.
location: Telecommute
job type: Contract
salary: $78.88 - 87.30 per hour
work hours: 8am to 5pm
education: Bachelors
responsibilities
- Network Automation:
- Develop and implement network automation ideas to reduce repetitive manual health checks and eliminate the possibility of human error.
- Advanced knowledge of Python programming - NetDevOps focused.
- Thorough understanding of data structures (SQL, JSON, YAML, XML)
- Experience using APIs for network automation
- Proficient in Github, Gitlab and using Co-Pilot
- Experience in Ansible configuration management, collections, and writing playbooks
- Lead technical discussions to understand business requirements and translate them into functional specifications.
- Develop comprehensive graphical and text-based design documentation and effectively manage the implementation process from design to customer acceptance.
- Network Management and Support:
- Provide engineering support for projects, including design, implementation, testing, and support for new deployments, expansions, environment refreshes, and upgrades.
- Interface with multiple teams from business areas, network architecture, cloud governance, and network tools management as a team representative on feature developments and enterprise initiatives.
- Perform advanced troubleshooting to identify, resolve, and provide root cause analysis of network-related issues.
- Assist with maintaining network Co-Locations and LAN/WAN infrastructure and systems for small, regional, and large office and campus environments.
- Support a large complex data network infrastructure by using network monitoring and management tools.
- Familiarity with Agile software development tools - Atlassian Confluence + Jira
- Engage in continuous learning to stay abreast of new and emerging technologies.
- Network Configuration and Security:
- Provide LAN routing, switching, wireless, and security configuration and deployment assistance within various environments.
- Make configuration standardization and upgrades for vulnerability remediation in a timely manner.
- Plan and execute OS upgrades on various network platforms, maintaining current standards.
- Provide technical expertise on secure networks technology areas.
- Assist clients through the planning, design, and implementation of secure data communications networks.
- Incident Response and Troubleshooting:
- Participate in and respond to network & security incidents.
- Perform system and network analysis using well-defined toolsets for proactive monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response (e.g., packet capture, application performance management, syslog, Netbrain, Aternity, Observe, Arkime).
- Provide technical support leadership on problem calls and major incident bridges.
- Interface with multiple teams from business areas, network engineering, and management as a team representative on major incident bridges.
- Documentation and Best Practices:
- Maintain documentation and contribute to enterprise learning platforms based on user reports and experience.
- Provide peer reviews of implementations, configurations, and documentation for team members.
- Assist other team members with deployment or best practices.
- Create technical deliverables including physical and logical network diagrams, network assessments, capacity planning, detailed design documents, runbooks, configurations, and change orders.
qualifications
Bachelor's degree in a related field.
At least 3 years of network security and network infrastructure support experience.
At least 2 years of experience with packet capture tools like Wireshark and TCPdump.
At least 2 years of experience configuring, supporting, and troubleshooting firewalls, site-to-site IPSec VPN connections, and Network Address Translation (NAT).
At least 2 years of experience with AWS Cloud/ DevOps technology.
skills
Agile software development
Akamai
AWS
Ansible
application performance management
APIs
Cloud
cloud-based solutions
core networking
network platforms
network tools
data network
network communications
configuration management
Atlassian Confluence
secure data
data structures
Datadog
DDoS
DevOps
Devops Tools
Docker
DNS
XML
Firewall
Firewalls
Forescout
Github
Gitlab
IPSec
incident tracking system
Jira
JSON
Jenkins
Load Balancers
Co-Pilot
Network Address Translation
Network Management
network analysis
network architecture
network infrastructure
Network Configuration
network diagrams
network management tools
network monitoring
router
Network & Security
network security
troubleshooting network
New Relic
network automation
packet capture
Pagerduty
proactive monitoring
Proxies
Python programming
routing
routing protocols
Switching/Routing
runbooks
SQL
Servicenow
Sniffer
vulnerability remediation
syslog
configuring
TCP/IP
TCPdump
VPN
WIFi
LAN/WAN
SD-WAN
Wireshark
YAML
Excellent oral and written communication skills
organizational skills
leadership
Troubleshooting
Ability to work independently
Automation
business requirements
capacity planning
assessments
change orders
continuous learning
customer service
design documentation
detailed design
engineering support
functional specifications
cloud governance
Incident Response
infrastructure
maintenance
network engineering
learning platforms
root cause analysis
SDWAN
Security
security configuration
Lead technical
application support
technical support
communications networks
testing
wireless