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Here is the role! They need to be Senior level. I would submit someone with 7+ years of Networking experience. Phone screening tomorrow or early next week and then an onsite interview! Must be able to pass a criminal background check. *Role: Network Engineer* *Client:* Blackboard *Duration:* long term contract *Location:* Reston, VA (must be able to do an onsite interview) What they are screening on: · BGP design and operations experience (most important) · Firewall experience (preferably Cisco ASA) · DDoS mitigation experience (I’ll sub if they don’t have this because it is hard to find) · OSPF design and operations experience · Linux or Unix systems experience · Shell scripting The Senior Network Operations Engineer will be part of the Cloud Services team that is responsible for providing network operational support to Blackboard’s infrastructure comprising of 13 datacenters worldwide supporting millions of end-users. In this role you will be working on supporting network needs supporting our next generation infrastructure platform delivering services for Blackboard’s educational products. An ideal candidate loves to push the boundaries of existing technologies and is eager to work on cutting edge solutions deployed at massive scale. The primary responsibilities of the Senior Network Operations Engineer include: - Maintain, configure, deploy and plan changes for Cloud Services network devices across the world including routers and switches (Brocade), firewalls (Cisco), and load balancers (Citrix NetScaler), DDoS mitigation equipment, and management network devices. - Troubleshoot network infrastructure issues and participate in multi-discipline “tiger” teams to resolve customer impacting application or infrastructure issues. - Identify and implement improvements to drive efficiency and meet availability objectives. - Peer review and support network engineer change plans. Mentor junior staff. - Provide capacity planning, performance analysis, develop disaster recovery plans, manage configurations of network devices and software. - Provide technical expertise, guidance and strategic recommendations to develop a roadmap that ensures that the current and planned technical solutions are compatible with the company's business needs and strategic objectives. - Reduce risk of human error by driving automation, enforcing configuration standards and contributing to the network design and process/procedure documentation set. - Support delivery teams in planning and implementing client network integration. - Review and analyze existing migration processes and provide recommendations for improvement - Perform maintenance and troubleshooting support which may include off hour work. - Participate in the Network Operations team’s on-call schedule for after-hours and weekend troubleshooting and change implementation support. - Identify and/or undertake technical and departmental projects as assigned or as necessary *Required Qualifications * - BS in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent experience. - 5+ years experience operating large scale networks with rigorous requirements for availability. - Experience and knowledge to independently resolve issues pertaining to routing protocols (OSPF/BGP), VLANs (STP/VTP), VPNs (IPSEC), and SSL. - 3+ years experience operating and administering load balancers. - Understanding of Network Monitoring, including but not limited to SNMP and OIDs - Experience working with ISPs and interacting with vendors on technical cases - Highly motivated individual who is a self-starter, eager to learn, maintains networking skills and can demonstrate effective project management and completion of complex network tasks with little guidance - Excellent communication and technical documentation skills; experience effectively communicating with technical and non-technical audiences - Demonstrate efficient and effective use of problem-solving, troubleshooting, project management and task prioritization to solve complex network challenges *Preferred Qualifications:* - Hands on experience with Citrix Netscaler Load Balancers - Hands on experience with Brocade routers and switches - Coding and scripting experience. - Have experience with cloud platforms (VMware, AWS, etc) production deployments. - Have experience automating things at scale. - Have a solid understanding of operating systems, especially Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat). - Ability to draw simple shapes on flat surfaces to illustrate complex topics. - Teach us something we don’t know. - Be driven! My Best, Kavi Johnson| *Sr. Technical Recruiter CAT Technology, Inc* k...@catstaffing-us.com Voice: 201-257-5081 x 319 Fax: 201-342-2385 www.catamerica.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SAP BASIS" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sap-basis+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sap-basis@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sap-basis. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.