Position Details
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Job Title: Network Lead
Location: Chicago, Il
Key Skills and Experience :
- 10+ years experience in network engineering. Experience network engineering and operation with an enterprise organization preferred.
- 5+ years of experience leading project teams and/or mentoring junior engineers.
- In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.
- Experience working with SDN solutions such as Cisco ACI, VMware VNX
- Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.
- Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):
- Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture
- F5 LTM/GTM
- Cisco UCS & Nexus
- Cisco ACI
- Cisco WAAS, WCCP
- Cisco security solutions
- Cisco ISE
- Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions
- QoS, prioritization of voice and video
- Network automation
- Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures
- Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
- Scripting skills are a plus
- Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.
- Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment
- Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.
- Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation
- Have proven recent experience in leading a team. Potential team may consist of up to 5 people
- You will be a self-motivated achiever who gains satisfaction from providing excellent customer service;
- Able to quickly grasp and interpret salient information;
- Able to take a proactive approach without the need for supervision;
- Excellent analytical & interpretive skills;
- Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to communicate with global technical teams;
