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Established in 1996, Visionary Integration Professionals (VIP) is a global information technology solution provider. VIP’s unwavering commitment to understand the business needs and goals of its customers allows the company to partner with clients to increase business performance, mitigate risk and resolve challenges. The VIP family of solutions includes business intelligence and data integration, human capital management, technology integration and operations, quality management, management consulting, and SAP professional services. For more than 13 years, VIP has delivered quality solutions nationwide to more than 900 clients that include various industries in the commercial sector as well as federal, state and local government. VIP maintains its headquarters in Folsom, California and was among the Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies in the U.S. as published by INC Magazine. For more information, visit http://www.vipconsulting.com " target="_blank">www.vipconsulting.com.

General Definition:

    * Acts as top tier escalation point for network related issues
working alongside another Sr. Network Engineer
    * Assists other team members with configuration and management of
network devices.
    * Assists in developing network and network security solutions for
the client.
    * Makes purchasing recommendations on network infrastructure and
network security infrastructure.
    * Participates in team meetings, team design discussions, and client
meetings to meet network design goals.
    * Install all new hardware, systems, and software.
    * Install, configure, and maintain network services, equipment and
devices.
    * Supports administration of CiscoWorks, SolarWinds Orion NPM/APM
    * Designs network infrastructure.
    * Mentors team other team members and assists in technical training
for the team.
    * Perform detailed troubleshooting analysis of servers, workstations
and associated systems.
    * Documents network problems and resolution.
    * Monitors system performance and implements performance tuning.
    * Requires a thorough knowledge of network design, network security,
as well as IP routing and switching.
    * Assist SOC with remediation of network security related issues.
    * Strong analytical abilities and professional office experience
required.
    * Ability to lead deployment teams.

Certifications: CCNP Required (or CCIP or similar Cisco Professional
level certification)

Education:  Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Information
Technology, or four (4) or more years of relevant experience.

Networking Experience:

    * Expert IP addressing and subnetting skills.
    * Expert level network troubleshooting skills required (including
network services such as DHCP, DNS, NTP, etc.)
    * Expert level knowledge with Cisco Switches & switching methodology
    * Expert level knowledge with Cisco Routers & routing methodology
    * Expert Firewall Experience (Cisco ASA and PIX)
    * Intermediate to expert experience with LAN/WAN Quality of Service
and Packetshaping.
    * Intermediate to expert experience with Cisco Network Admission
Control (NAC)
    * Expert LAN technologies (Working knowledge of: EIGRP, VLANs,
private VLANs, trunking, port security, routing fundamentals, switching
fundamentals, quality of service)
    * Intermediate to expert level knowledge of WAN technologies
(Familiarity with: DMVPN, VoIP over WANs, GRE tunnels, Quality of
Service, NHRP, BGP, etc.) 

Sorry, due to the number of applicants, we are unable to respond to inquiries by telephone. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex or national origin. EOE/F/M/DV

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