Senior Network Engineer to provide evergreening and operational support for highly available Cisco infrastructure for a crown corporation client

Our valued crown corporation client is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to provide evergreening and operational support for highly available Cisco infrastructure for a crown corporation client!

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).

As the successful candidate you will play a key role in the network operations team, with focus on evergreening and operational support (e.g. responding to tickets).

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, operation, development, and integration in network management environments
• 5+ years of experience with network equipment, specifically with Cisco switching and routing platforms (Cisco 9K, 9300s, 6508, Cisco ACI, and APIC)
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in IT Operations work, including the operational capabilities and typical challenges of IT Operations
• 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
• Demonstrated experience in working with Cisco ASA and/or Firepower Technologies

Nice-to-have Skills

• CCIE Certification (Data Centre, Routing & Switching)
• Demonstrated experience in working with Cisco NCS 5500
• Demonstrated experience in working with ServiceNow
• Demonstrated experience working with F5 Load Balancers