Mid Level Network Engineer

Cookeville, TN

Talent Orchard LLC, a Woman Owned Small Business with 8a designation has been contracted by a large defense contractor in their search for a Mid Level Network Engineer to join our team in Cookeville, TN! 

Description of Duties:

• Provide network / security engineering and support for mission-critical applications and subcontracted network management services for wide area network, and local area network environments, including multiple client offices as part of a multi-year IT outsourcing contracts. 
• Work with the Network Service Delivery Manager, this role will be responsible for the maintenance of high-quality network services while supporting the implementation of new systems and infrastructure upgrades in a dynamic environment.
• Provide hands-on technical support for WAN, LAN, proxy and security devices. Interface with key customer contacts, project managers, other service delivery managers and staff, subcontractors, support personnel, and other stakeholders.
• Directly execute network services projects, and operations activities. Interface with SAIC program and senior management in support of the achievement of service level, financial and technical objectives.

Required Skills/Education/Abilities

• Bachelors and 5+ years’ experience.  Additional experience will be considered in lieu of degree.   
• Intermediate level knowledge of Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion Detection/Prevention and vulnerability assessment tools.
• Associate level experience of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, HSRP, and Static routing.
• Experience with Network Security technologies such as IPsec, SSL, and Client/Clientless solutions.
• Knowledge in preparing and providing network design, engineering and information security plans to support new and enhanced applications, architectures and standards.
• 3+ years’ experience with Network virtualization including VLAN, VRF, VPC, and VSS.
• Strong understanding of Layer 2 protocols; specifically STP, ARP, CDP, and LACP.
• Advanced understanding of security device architecture, engineering and installation/management. 
• Demonstrate configuration level knowledge of Cisco Firewalls. 
• Proven past experience in a similar Network Engineer role and in an IT environment of similar scope and scale
• Experience in WAN and LAN, datacenter routing, switching, firewall, load-balancing, WLAN and proxy technologies.
• Familiarity in load balancing and application delivery networking including legacy Cisco ACE, F5 BigIP and AVI Networks load balancers including Web Application Firewalls and Geographic Load Balancing.
•  Firm knowledge of technologies such as DHCP, DNS, SSH, TCP, and UDP.
• The right applicant will have strong communication skills and be expected to demonstrate the ability manage daily workload / tasks with limited on site supervision and excel in a virtual IT team environment.

Established in 2010, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery.

To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.talentorchard.com.