CCNP Certified Network Engineer (IPv6 / Multicast) - LONG TERM CONTRACT (Naperville, IL)

Location: Naperville
Posted on: November 18, 2024

Job Description:

Modis is currently seeking a CCNP Certified Network Engineer for an exciting long-term contract / contract to hire job opportunity with our commercial banking customer, located in the Western Chicago suburbs (Naperville / Lisle).
 
This role will be working as a senior-level Engineer with responsibilities for the continued design, implementation and support of our clients nationwide, enterprise MPLS-based IPv6 Multicast network.  With cutting-edge products from Cisco and Juniper, our client’s technical environment offers a great opportunity to expand on your existing knowledge and grow professionally!
 
The CCNP Certified Network Engineer will be responsible for the following:
- Designing, implementing, configuring and providing escalated engineering support for our client’s network infrastructure which includes Cisco 2800-7600 series routers, Cisco 7000/5000 Nexus Switches and advanced WAN protocols – OSPF, BGP, EIGRP and HSRP.
- Configuring and supporting the IPv6 Network with an emphasis on Multicast and VPNs
- Designing, configuring and provisioning the WAN networking technologies (MPLS, IPFR, PPP, VPN, etc)
- Designing Implementing, configuring and supporting Cisco ASA, CheckPoint and/or Juniper Netscreen firewalls
- Implementing, configuring and supporting network Monitoring, Network Performance Management and Optimization tools (Load balancers, WAN Optimizers, Monitoring tools, etc)
- Implementing standards and best practices for physical and logical network security
- Designing and engineering brand-new network solutions and  making recommendations to expand service and network functionality.
- Providing Tier 3-support during severe network issues and outages
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REQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS
- Candidates MUST be willing to work off-hours to support 24x7x365 operations – typically several night / weekend shifts in any given month)
- REQUIRED ACTIVE CCNP Certification or higher
- Demonstrated hands-on experience installing Cisco Routers and Cisco Switches (Catalyst / Nexus)
- Strong experience with IP Multicast / MPLS VPN Networks  
- Minimum 2 years experience with enterprise Firewalls (Cisco ASA or Juniper Netscreen required)
- Demonstrated network support experience using Nagios, Solarwinds and /or HPOV for monitoring
- Strong experience with network performance and traffic management
- Excellent customer service skills
 
If interested in this or other Senior Network Engineer jobs available through Modis in the Chicago area, please apply today with your most recently up to date MS Word resume – or visit our website at www.modis.com to view and apply for and of the hundreds of IT jobs we currently have across the US!  
 
 
 
 

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