Network Engineer

Established in 1991, Collabera has been a leader in IT staffing for over 22 years and is one of the largest diversity IT staffing firms in the industry. As a half a billion dollar IT company, with more than 9,000 professionals across 30+ offices, Collabera offers comprehensive, cost-effective IT staffing & IT Services. We provide services to Fortune 500 and mid-size companies to meet their talent needs with high quality IT resources through Staff Augmentation, Global Talent Management, Value Added Services through CLASS (Competency Leveraged Advanced Staffing & Solutions) Permanent Placement Services and Vendor Management Programs.

Collabera recognizes true potential of human capital and provides people the right opportunities for growth and professional excellence.

• Install, configure and support large-scale production and corporate network infrastructure including routers, switches, console servers and optical transport equipment.
• Troubleshoot network hardware and software, working with 3rd party hardware vendors and suppliers on root cause analysis and resolution.
• Troubleshoot and repair local and long haul circuits, working with both internal resources and 3rd party vendors to isolate and resolve cabling issues.
• Schedule and perform network maintenance, repair, and upgrade tasks as needed while limiting the impact on the production network.
• Use internal software, tools, and scripts to configure, monitor, and repair network equipment.
• Perform queue management for alarms, tasks, and incidents and participate in ongoing troubleshooting.
• Troubleshoot network link/device/configuration issues, isolating the problem, fixing the problem.
• Creating new RMA requests through OEM vendors for both replacement devices, as well as obtaining technical assistance when troubleshooting devices.
• Verify capacity, draining traffic, suppressing alarms before replacing; optics, line cards, sup cards.
• Tracking, maintaining and updating asset inventory of defective and replacement parts.
• Troubleshoot, tracing, looping links to locate the physical issue.

• The ideal candidate will have 7+ years’ experience in networks installation, configuration and support.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus/ASR, Arista and Juniper Enterprise and Service Provider network hardware platforms and architectures including data center switching platforms.
• Strong working knowledge of routing and switching technologies and protocols.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze complex situations and utilize troubleshooting skills, systems and tools, and creative problem solving abilities under pressure.
• Strong working knowledge of Linux OS and CLI navigation.

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