Senior Network Engineer to provide operational and evergreening support for Cisco routers & switches for a crown corporation client

Our valued crown corporation client is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to provide operational and evergreening support for Cisco routers & switches!

Initial 1-year contract in Ottawa, ON with strong possibility of extension for a total term of 3 years - Hybrid: 8 days/mo required on-site. 7.5 hours per day, Monday to Friday (37.5 hours/week). Occasional overtime and after-hours support may be required, including on weekends.

As the successful candidate you will implement and deploy the required infrastructure to facilitate the migration of virtual applications, physical servers, storage systems and network devices from an existing data center to a new fully resilient data center.

Responsibilities

• Play a key role in the operational team, with focus on evergreening and operational support
• Resolve complex cross functional technical issues in a timely manner
• Participate in the planning and execution of testing related to production deployment validation, performance, failover and vulnerabilities remediation, and disaster recovery
• Analyze the current solutions environment to identify deficiencies and opportunities for simplification as part of continuous improvements and evergreening activities
• Define and implement required upgrades and changes to address operational problems or new business requirements as well as support problem troubleshooting in Prod and non-prod environments

Must-Have Skills

• 5+ years of experience in testing or/and operation or/and development or/and integration in network management environments
• 5+ years of experience with network equipment, specifically with Cisco switching and routing platforms (Cisco 9K, 9300s, 6508 and Cisco ACI / APIC)
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in IT Operations work, including the operational capabilities and typical challenges of IT Operations (e.g. responding quickly to tickets filed on ServiceNow)
• Demonstrated ability to participate with the development process (supporting continuous integration and deployment) from idea to implementation
• Demonstrated experience with scalable and highly available service-oriented architectures
• Demonstrated experience in working with Agile methodology

Nice-to-have Skills

• Demonstrated experience working with Cisco NCS 5500
• Demonstrated experience working with F5 Load Balancers
• Demonstrated experience working with Cisco ASA and/or Firepower firewalls
• Relevant Cisco certifications such as CCIE (Data Centre, Routing & Switching)