Position Details:

Job title: Network Engineer 

Duration: 6 month contract 

Location: Seattle, WA (onsite)

Pay rate: $60 - 65/hr

Job Description:

Day To Day

• 10% meetings per week
• Highly independently working on their own – no hand holding here
• 20-25% learning and understanding of the products and solutions that they use
• 25% working with people on the ground for racks, power, upgrades, etc
• 25% translating into documentation and drafting low and high level designs and results of onsite outrages and options being considered and what recommendations and why and decisions made based on cost and efficiency and time

Skills:

• Should have a minimum of 7+ years industry experience.
• Excellent network experience with the rollout of large DWDM networks and Optical network technologies, and experience with optical planning and modelling tools.
• Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols.
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with major internet routing protocols; specifically BGP and OSPF
• In-depth knowledge of and experience with major router platforms; specifically with Cisco 37xx, 49xx, 65xx, 73xx, 76xx platforms including all compatible supervisory and line cards for these platforms.
• Excellent network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills.
• Candidates should also have had significant past experience with, and expertise in many of the following protocols & technologies: DWDM, T1/DS1, DS3, SONET (OC3, OC48), 802.2/3, 802.1d VLANs/STP, IPv4 & IPv6, TCP (internals & flow control), BGP, OSPF, HSRP/GLBP, PIMv2, IGMP, LDP, TACACS, IPSEC & VPNs, netflow, DNS, HTTP.