Our client, a leading financial services company is hiring a Senior Network Monitoring & Automation Engineer on a long-term contract basis.
Job ID 82677
Work Location:
Alpharetta, GA
Summary:
The Engineering and administration of network management solutions (NMS) for a multi-platform global network infrastructure. Perform fault and performance monitoring services for internal teams, providing them with the functionality and data required to proactively manage the health and capacity of the network. Design, deploy, administer, and provide operational support for NMS tools. Evaluate new monitoring solutions. Integrate the NMS tools with asset database and other corporate systems. Automate tool administration. Liaise with network operational and engineering teams to define and implement monitoring standards. Participate in network management design and peer reviews. Conduct tooling audits to assess proper operational coverage and build remediation changes as required. Coordinate with external vendors for tooling updates and upgrades. Document tool architecture and operational procedures.
Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day support, administration and customization of our NMS applications and services
- Design and deployment of new monitoring feature
- Planning, testing, and upgrading of our core NMS applications and infrastructure
- Work with our network operations team to ensure all network devices are monitored correctly
- End User education
- Certification of new network devices, and operating versions
- Development of scripts for automation of our tools, exchange of data with other system
- Data analysis
- Evaluation of new products
- Liaison with external vendors
- Documentation
Required Skills:
- At least three (3) years of experience with design, customization, and deployment of network management tools supporting the monitoring and data acquisition for large scale, global deployments of network devices (routers, switches, voice devices) in mission critical environments.
- preferably with experience with Broadcom DX Spectrum and IBM SevOne vendor products
- In-depth understanding of network management protocols, concepts (SNMP v1/2c/3 and SNMP MIB’s), and enterprise infrastructure services (Syslog, NTP, DNS, AAA, LDAP, CDP, LLDP)
- Experience of networking products for Orchestration, Alert, Incident, Problem, Capacity and Performance, Wifi, Security, and Flow Management
- Development of Python scripts for the collection and processing of network related data, using REST API’s, network protocols and sql/NoSql databases
- Administration and support of enterprise-level RedHat Linux servers, including the deployment and support of system-related monitoring applications
- Experience with developing NMS tool integrations and automations related to tool administration and runbooks
- Analysis of network packet capture; flow technologies, including NetFlow and sFlow
- Experience of configuring network devices (cisco and Arista), and knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF) and network security protocols (802.1x), and wifi protocols. Experience of certifying and validating health and performance data collection of network devices including tool customization for handling vendor specific SNMP traps, events and KPI’s
- Power user in the use of analytical tools (ie Splunk, ELK, Grafana)
- Working knowledge of databases and data extraction
Pay: $48-$63 per hour.