Network Engineer

Akkodis is seeking a Network Engineer for a Direct-Hire position with a client located in Dublin, OH (Remote).

Salary: $100k -$135k, The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors

Remote but someone local to Ohio only, who can come onsite when needed.

Job Description:

As part of the Network Engineering team within Infrastructure and Operations department, the Network Engineer owns a pivotal role in ensuring the stability, security, quality, and scalability of hybrid IT network infrastructure. As a subject matter expert, the Network Engineer will advise and collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot network solutions that support teams and the organization’s operational and strategic objectives.

Primary Responsibilities:

Network Design and Implementation:

• Planned, designed, and implemented complex network solutions to meet requirements, including remote branches, on-premises data centers, and cloud-based resources.
• Evaluate and recommend network hardware and software solutions.

Network Security:

• Implement and maintain network security measures to safeguard data, applications, and infrastructure.
• Monitor network traffic for security threats and respond to incidents promptly.

Network Optimization:

• Continuously optimize the network for performance and capacity to ensure high availability and reliability.
• Identify and resolve network bottlenecks and performance issues.

Troubleshooting and Support:

• Provide multi-level support for network-related issues, ensuring timely resolution.
• Collaborate with other IT teams to diagnose and resolve complex network problems.

Documentation:

• Maintain comprehensive network documentation, including network diagrams, configurations, and standard operating processes.

Compliance and Best Practice:

• Ensure network infrastructure complies with industry best practices and relevant regulatory requirements.
• Stay current with emerging network technologies and recommend improvements accordingly.

Vendor Management:

• Collaborate with vendors and service providers to procure and manage network related services and equipment.
• IT experience working in an enterprise environment and expertise with firewalls, WAFs, VPNs, switches, routers (physical and virtual), and cloud networks.
• Design and implementation experience with LAN, WAN, WLAN, and VPN.
• Network capacity planning and management of DHCP, DNS, IPAM, ITAM, logging and monitoring platforms.
• Experienced with load balancers, Azure ExpressRoutes, and Edge/WAN management.
• Working knowledge of IP routing protocols such as BPG and OSPF.
• Experience with network automation and infrastructure-as-code / scripting languages such as Terraform and Ansible.
• Familiar with cloud-hosted private Git repos such as Azure Repos and pull requests.
• Practical knowledge of modern encryption protocols, decryption, and inline inspection.
• Leverage user-id-based policy management and additional NextGen firewall functions.
• Onboarding device support via policy-managed platforms to grant varying levels of access, authentications, and 802.1x compliance.

Other Roles and Responsibilities:

• Ensure uninterrupted network and security services supporting all infrastructure.
• Implement updates, patches, and upgrades across various network hard
• Manage layer 1 connectivity as appropriate
• Other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Required Skills:

• Exceptional organizational skills, follow-through, and multitasking abilities.
• Able to drive results with a sense of urgency relative to the end user.
• Decisiveness, good judgment, analytical/math aptitude, and problem-solving skills to act with authority and take risks in an environment with little direction from others.
• Excellent communicator with strong organizational savvy and leadership skills necessary to interface with and influence all levels of the organization.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and dynamic environment.
• Ability to think strategically bit willingness to handle the mechanics of technology services required by the business

Minimum Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Technology Management, Engineering, or other related area of study.
• Minimum of 5 years of infrastructure technical experience, with at least 3 years managing network infrastructure.
• Demonstrated knowledge of and experience in implementing leading-edge infrastructure technologies.
• Professional certifications within infrastructure-related areas, while not a minimum requirement, would be highly desirable.

If you are interested in this role, then please click APPLY NOW. For other opportunities available at Akkodis, or any questions, please contact Anirudh Srivastava at 610-227-6773 or anirudh.srivastava@akkodisgroup.com.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Benefit offerings include medical, dental, vision, term life insurance, short-term disability insurance, additional voluntary benefits, commuter benefits, and a 401K plan. Our program provides employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. Available paid leave may include Paid Sick Leave, where required by law; any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law; and Holiday pay upon meeting eligibility criteria.

Disclaimer: These benefit offerings do not apply to client-recruited jobs and jobs that are direct hires to a client.

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