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Network Engineer

Job in Riverwoods, Lake County, Illinois, USA
Listing for: Judge Group, Inc.
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-01-28
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    Systems Engineer, IT Support, Network Engineer, Cloud Computing
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 55 - 60 USD Hourly USD 55.00 60.00 HOUR
Job Description & How to Apply Below

Overview

Location: Riverwoods, IL

Salary: $55.00 USD Hourly – $60.00 USD Hourly

Description: Our client is currently seeking a Network Engineer

Location:

Hybrid role to any of the locations McLean, VA /Riverwoods, IL / Chicago, IL / NYC / Plano, TX

Description:

Responsibilities
  • Monitors the Data Network for performance degradation, connectivity issues, system events, and alerts. Updates and manages tickets through resolution with vendors and internal support groups.
  • Tests, analyzes, performs corrective actions, and restores network equipment and services in a timely and accurate manner to eliminate/reduce application impact. Provides timely notifications to management/outage team and escalates tickets to appropriate internal and external management as needed.
  • Responds to engagements from the Command Center to assist with network analysis, availability, and drive incident resolution.
  • Carefully plan and implement data network configuration changes, hardware/software upgrades and more
  • Performs Preventative Maintenance tasks and creates, maintains, updates NOC support documentation.
  • Plan and drive remediation of known vulnerabilities on Network Devices
  • Review internal NOC processes and drive improvements & efficiencies to diagnose issues quickly and manage overall workload effectively.
  • Mentor junior engineers on networking fundamentals
  • Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to our led technology communities.
  • Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and ‘security first’ principles in daily work.
  • Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms.
  • Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability.
  • Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events.
  • Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities.
  • Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices.
  • Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies.
Minimum Qualifications
  • At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
  • Bachelors – Computer Science or related
  • 3 Years – (Software) Engineering, Dev Ops or related
Preferred Qualifications
  • Strong experience in Cisco Nexus Datacenter Concepts / Platforms including 2k, 5k, 7k, 9k
  • Strong and independent working knowledge and experience with routing protocols OSPF, BGP etc.
  • Strong and independent working knowledge and experience with Spanning-Tree, HSRP, VRRP, tunneling protocols, spine-leaf architecture, and Cisco ACI.
  • Experience with QoS operation and configuration
  • Experience in the following Datacenter technologies: FEX, VDC, VPC, Fabric-Path, VRF, OTV, LISP, VXLAN
  • Independent and proficient working knowledge with network applications such DNS, DHCP and NTP
  • Independent and proficient working knowledge with application content delivery technologies such as F5 (LTM/GTM) and Citrix Net Scaler
  • Fundamental knowledge and experience with virtualized compute environments, i.e., Hypervisor, UCS, ESX
  • Experience with compliance working with change control processes and adherence to standards
  • Experience and independent with managing moderate to complex network projects (planning, organizing, and managing timelines / objectives)
  • Strong verbal, written and documentation skills
Bonus Points If You Have
  • CCNP Certification
  • CCIE Certification

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