Network Engineer

NO SPONSORSHIP, CANDIDATES MUST BE LOCAL TO HOUSTON Alava Consulting is looking for a Network Engineer for our client. This will be a year long contract, located in West Houston. This is a hybrid position. 3 days in office. Act as a resource for reported network performance or application performance issues Manage and support the network monitoring and configuration management software Provide technical support for field networks to include industrial switches, routers, and wireless bridges Utilize service portal to manage and create service requests, outages, and change requests Identify innovative ways to utilize existing applications and technologies Forecast and coordinate management of change for scheduled maintenance weekends Effectively communicate with end users and peers around the world About the Role: The successful candidate will have the following qualifications and experience: Responsibilities: Troubleshooting experience with large enterprises Strong written and verbal communication skills. The ability to clearly articulate complex issues Customer interfacing capabilities Experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewall and wireless hardware Experience with SolarWinds Network Management suite of applications Experience with Riverbed WAN optimization appliance, Cascade and Net Profiler is a plus Experience with Gigamon, Wireshark and packet level analysis and application performance root cause analysis is a plus Experience using Splunk to help with troubleshooting is a plus Experience troubleshooting EIGRP, BGP, Firewalls, IPSEC/SSL VPNs, Spanning tree and network security Experienced with software defined networking Experience with Cisco ISE/NAC is a plus Working knowledge of Cisco Collaboration products