Senior Network Engineer

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** Seeking candidates who are within a commutable distance to Jersey City, NJ**

** W2 hourly employment only - no C2C or third parties**

About the Role

PSR Associates is immediately seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our team providing support to our client.

Client: A leading Financial Services Company

Location:
Hybrid (Tue-Thurs onsite) in Jersey City, NJ

Contract Term: 1 year extendable

Job Description/Daily Tasks:

• Senior Network Engineer who will be working on migrating our core, WAN and server-farm distribution switches globally from Cisco to Arista.
• This includes implementing VXLAN/EVPN, BGP end to end using 4-byte ASN, using automation for configuration templating and open-telemetry for observability and real-time monitoring in Elasticsearch.

The ideal candidate will have experience with the following:

Designing and implementing VXLAN/EVPN on Arista (without Cloud Vision Portal)

• EVPN route-types
• VTEP peerings and head-end replication
• Migrating from Cisco ACI to Arista VXLAN/EVPN
• L2-Stretch between three datacenters for VM hosts that are SRM protected

Understanding of BGP protocol

• Doing end to end BGP with 4-byte ASN
• Migrating from EIGRP to BGP
• BGP route-tagging and path preferences

Multicast routing, including PTP

• Segmenting multicast L3 routing from EVPN (non-stretched VLAN)
• Symmetric routing for PTP multicast between VLANs within a VXLAN/EVPN fabric

Automation and Observability

• Developing config templates for all designs and deployments using in-house automation tools along with Itential
• Understanding of Python, Jinja, JSON, Ansible
• Understanding of open-telemetry, gNMI, gRPC, Logstash, Elasticsearch
• Basic understanding of using AI for network automation and observability (not mandatory as we will be implementing this for the first time)

Technical Qualifications:

• 10+ years of technical experience in networking, network security, and team leadership.
• Working understanding of open-standard networking protocols and the ability to identify and implement these protocols at an enterprise level.
• Ability to conduct Network Operational analysis to solve issues using network flow analysis, packet captures, and event correlation tools.
• Experience building out multi-sized datacenters, campuses, and branch sites using enterprise architecture principles, industry standards, and best practices.
• Network Security experience designing and implementing firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers, and NAC solutions for data and endpoint protection.
• Experience in multiple technical domains such as server, storage, desktop, security, and network infrastructure.
• Working knowledge implementing Cloud networking solutions with AWS and Azure.
• Deep understanding of networking and firewall hardware platforms for Cisco, Arista, Palo Alto, F5, and Aruba Silver-Peak.
• Experience designing and implementing cloud-hosted SaaS solutions for end-user remote and branch secure connection.
• Working knowledge on building and implementing a network automation design that automates networking tasks across multiple vendors and platforms.
• Experience designing, implementing, and supporting networks that host trading applications collocated.

Current Environment:
Vendors and Protocols:

• Networking:
  Cisco, Arista, Aruba Silver-Peak (SD-WAN)
• Firewall and SaaS:
  Palo Alto, Prisma Access
• Load-Balancers and WAFs: F5 Big-IP, Cloud-Flare, A10 Networks (optional)
• DDoS:
  Cloud-Flare and Radware
• Network Observability: cPacket, Viavi, Wireshark, Thousand-Eyes, Grafana, Elasticsearch, Telegraf, Logstash
• Wireless:
  Cisco and Juniper MIST
• Networking Protocols: BGP, MP-BGP, OSPF, Multicast, MLAG, VPC, MSTP, Rapid-PVST+, LACP, mutual route redistribution, VXLAN, EVPN
• Programming and Automation:
  Python, JSON, Jinja, Ansible, YAML, Itential workflow automation

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