Kforce is working with a client in search of a Senior Network and Telecommunications Engineer with at least 8 years of hands-on experience with a multisite Cisco network infrastructure, to join their team! This position is full time, direct hire and hybrid on-site 3-days a week near Vauxhall, NJ. The Senior Network Engineer will manage many technical areas with a focus on the following: * Cisco switches, routers and firewalls * Fortinet firewalls and SD-WAN * Kemp load balancer * Internet and WAN circuit topology and design * High availability network design, configurations and implementations * Ubiquiti wireless access points and controllers * Telecommunications and the migration to cloud Duties and Responsibilities: * Support, install, and improve existing network infrastructure * Gather requirements from business stakeholders * Design and architect network solutions * Research new technologies and methodologies * Develop and document specifications, researching vendors and solutions for comparison, and estimating initial and recurring costs for these solutions * Help the business leverage the Internet-of-Things for strategic growth * Act as an escalation point for other members of IT * Work with 3rd party service providers to address outages and disruptions * Respond to business-critical emergencies, both during and after business hours * Determine action plans to address issues, communicating proactively with service users and stakeholders * Develop and implement procedures for management, including reporting of performance KPI's * Perform regular compliance audits of systems * Develop network lifecycle plans * Document and maintain the current environment * Manage and negotiate with key network and telecommunications vendors* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field is required * Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCDP, CCIE) a plus * 8+ years of experience in the IT industry designing, implementing, and supporting a multisite network infrastructure * Awareness and familiarity with ITIL/SDLC concepts and principles In depth and hands on experience with: * Fortinet and Cisco ASA/Firepower firewalls (CLI/ASDM), Nexus and Catalyst core and edge switches, ISR routers * Kemp load balancers * Content Filtering (Barracuda and Fortinet) * BGP, OSPF, route redistribution, VxLAN, IP SLA, QoS, HSRP/VRRP, VRF, Spanning-Tree, 802.1p/q, vPC and other high availability configurations and advanced network implementations * Firewall ACL, NAT, Policy and Route based L2L VPN configurations, SD-WAN * Nagios, PRTG, NetFlow, SNMP and other network monitoring tools * Troubleshooting IP/TCP/UDP using tools/techniques such as Wireshark, Cisco CML/VIRL, Traceroute, Firewall Packet-tracer, Syslog (Sumo Logic) * Network Taps and Packet Brokers * Ubiquiti WLAN APs, controllers, 802.1x * Visio, Excel, Word, Confluence, etc. * Understanding of carrier transport technologies such as MPLS, VPLS, DWDM, SDH * Understanding of traditional analog and digital telecommunications