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December 10, 2009

Senior Network Engineer, Dallas, Salary DOE

Incredible growth opportunity. This large, well established team is transferring much of their outsourced capabilities inward, and taking more control over network design and operations. Be one of the first Network engineers on staff and help the team grow (and lead over time). Please send your MS Word formatted resume to resume [at] alynpatrick [dot] com

Essential Functions
– Configures, tests, and maintains LAN/WAN equipments and related services.
– Identifies, diagnoses, and resolves network problems.
– Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for all implemented networks.
– Daily maintenance and problem resolution, operating system patches and software upgrades, and routine network hardware configuration.
– Excellent interpersonal, communication skills, and thrive in a collaborative team environment.
– Proficient documentation skills utilizing MS Word, MS Project, MS Excel and Visio.
– Defining & follow procedures and utilize the company change control process in order to ensure compliance with the organizations data center and security standards.
– Participate in 24×7 on-call rotation.
– Obtain and maintain required certifications for partnership with key vendors
– Other duties as assigned or as situation dictates.

Required Skills
– 5+ years of network administration and Network Engineering
– Hands-on experience implementing and administrating network devices:
-Cisco network switches
-Cisco routers
-SSL VPN
-Juniper Firewalls
-Wireless Access Points
– Previous responsibility for providing customer support
– Must have strong background with redundancy, fail over, MPLS (etc)
– Experience with very large, multi site, global operations ideal
– Demonstrable level of competence including:
-A thorough understanding of the OSI network model, Ethernet, and TCP/IP networking. A practical level of experience implementing and administrating common TCP/IP-based services, including DNS, DHCP, HTTP, FTP, SSH, SMTP, etc.
– Working knowledge of common network monitoring and security utilities Troubleshooting focused on determining hardware vs. software, hardware vs. firmware, software vs. operating system, network vs. application/systems, and patterned vs. non-repeatable problems
– Scripting knowledge with Powershell or VBscript is preferred.
– Ability to prioritize and multitask
– Willingness to learn new technologies and maintain industry knowledge
– Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
– Excellent customer presentation skills
– Bachelor’s degree (preferably engineering related)
– Current CCNA or CCNP strongly preferred
– Ability to lift, carry, and move all components of PC workstations, servers, network equipments, peripherals, and other ancillary equipments

Here are some key to answer in your cover letter:

1. What overall toolsets have you used?
2. What number of servers have you used?
3. What is your experience with physical and virtual migrations?
4. Do you have any supervisory experience?
5. What tools and applications have you used to provide high availability for critical systems?
6. Please expand on your experience with Redundancy, fail over, high-availability systems and MPLS other key terms

Background in these areas will be ideal:
BGP OSI ATM SNMP MPLS DNS SIP SONUS Ethernet SMTP SNMP SSH Telnet TLS/SSL XMPP

Alyn, Patrick & Associates, Inc. is a respected and specialized firm for the recruitment of electronics design engineers. Areas of focus include software, embedded systems, hardware (analog and digital), RF and electro-mechanical. Functional recruitment areas include: Product Managers, Applications Engineers, Sales Engineers, Product Marketing, Marketing Research, and Engineering Management. If you are an experienced professional in one of these areas, feel free to send a resume for review. For more information, please visit www.alynpatrick.com. Follow our job leads on Twitter http://twitter.com/AlynPatrick

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Written by David Herrmann · Filed Under Engineering Jobs 

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