Senior Network Consultant

Our Senior Network Consultant will be responsible for network infrastructure discovery, design, implementation, and operations (break/fix repair, change requests, and scheduled maintenance) for network infrastructure solutions, customer network and procedure documentation. Also, you will work and communicate with project managers and clients on project status, findings, recommendations, and timelines.Essential FunctionsConduct network discovery, review and assessment to evaluate gaps and availability of enterprise networkNetwork capacity analysis, responsible for overview of managed customers capacity and performanceDesign enterprise network according to industry standards and trends. Identify and recommend improvement areas and new technologies to clientsDevelop implementation and migration plan according to new solution recommendedDevelop and maintain systems documentation (operating procedures/best practices/standards) and network diagrams; work with team leads/clients to develop procedures and guidelines for implementation and management of network administrationRecommends and implements standards and procedures improvements for the implementation and administration of physical and virtual infrastructureMaintains good working knowledge of current infrastructure and future trends.Participate in on-call rotation for escalation support of technical issues, supporting the 24x7 operation environment both onsite (20-30% of time) and remoteEducationFour years of University resulting in a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent job-related experienceCertificationsCisco CCNP or above certification preferredITIL certification is preferred. Experience/Background10+ years' experienceExperience with enterprise level networking infrastructure design review and discovery to a number of organizations including LAN/WAN, high availability, routing/switching, firewall and security solutions across enterprise networking infrastructureGood assessment skills identifying gaps and deficiencies in networking and data centre environments·Experience with network infrastructure redesign and recommendations according to industry standards and trends. Develop implementation and migration plan according to new solution recommended.Familiar with various network management and security tools including Infoblox, NetScout management tools, Qualys, Stealthwatch and Secure Network Analytics, AppDynamics, etc.Experience with stateful and Next Generation Firewalls including Palo Alto Firewalls and Panorama, Cisco ASA and FTD, CheckPoint.Working knowledge of Cisco products (Nexus, Catalyst, ASA, FirePower, ISR/ASR, etc.), Cisco ACI, VxLAN, Infoblox, VMware, Azure, AWS, F5 LTM and VIPRION, HP Networking productsExperience with mission critical, 24x7 high availability environments requiredSkillsExcellent documentation and presentation skillsExpert communication skills, including the ability to document and demonstrate procedures and processes.Able to function efficiently in a multi-task environment and work under pressure. IT Services and IT Consulting