Network Infrastructure Engineer

Duration: 3-month contract to hire

Location: Hybrid in Columbia, MD (Onsite 3x/week)

Salary: $120-140k Depending on level of experience

Must-Haves:

• 5+ years of 24/7 operational experience working on production infrastructure (on-call support)
• 5+ years of hands on experience administering and architecting the following technologies
• Switching and Routing (LAN and WAN) protocols (VRF, EVPN, VXLAN, BGP, HSRP, LACP etc.)
• Network switches and routers - Cisco / Arista
• Aruba Edge Connect/ Silverpeak -SDWAN solution(s)
• Experience creating and managing Ansible playbooks to automate Network configurations and deployments
• Experience creating SOPs and architecture documents

Responsibilities:

• Maintaining Network & Network Security Infrastructure
• Provide complete operational life-cycle and project based support client infrastructure
• Participate in 24/7 follow-the-sun operating model along with EMEA and Asian region teams to support client infrastructure.
• Create and maintain SOPs, reference standards, architecture diagrams and other supporting documents as required.
• Continue to identify and implement regular operational activities that can be automated and or transitioned to Level 1 support after adequate documentation and knowledge transfer for swift issue resolution and better customer experience.
• As part of a larger team, maintain R&S Infrastructure that meets and beats the established OLAs on both availability and performance.
• Follow client’s established ITSM standards while resolving incidents, problems & service requests and while making changes to Infrastructure