Network Engineering Lead

6 MONTH CONTRACT

ANSIBLE SCRIPTING NEEDED

20-25% ONSITE TRAVEL, REST IS REMOTE

Our client is ranked among the top medical schools for primary care education by U.S. News & World Report that’s looking for a Network Engineering Lead to join their team. This is a 6-month duration contract position.

Job Summary:

The ideal Network Engineering Lead candidate will

be highly proficient in the technical aspects of network administration, including Cisco Systems, VPNs, and more. This position will be directly involved in the on-going testing, monitoring, and architecture of the expanding work. Candidates should have a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.

Responsibilities:

Feature Selection – Support customer determining feature sets that best suit their needs

Review current network to validate features and total number of leaf devices required

SOW review to accommodate total number of network devices

Dev/POC Lab Deployment – create a test lab with pertinent design concepts to perform testing for crucial Innovation Artery Architecture solutions prior to Production implementation

Infrastructure design – Dell switch Boarder Leaf, Spine, Super Spine

Sonic OS

Ansible Server Build Out

Ansible Scripting

VxLAN/eVPN – implementation

OSPF / BGP design

Test plan for production implementation

Super Spine

Spine

Leaf

eVPN

Routing

Test plan for production implementation

Super Spine

Spine

Leaf

L2

L3

eVPN

Routing

Data Center stitch In

Cloud provider stitch in

Legacy network stitch in

Ansible Scripts

Configuration template creation

Baseline for boarder leaf, leaf, spine and super spine

Boarder Leaf [ add number of leaves]

Spine [ add number of spines]

Super Spine [ add number of super spines]

Creation of Ansible Infrastructure

Develop configuration repository

Develop ancillary configuration docs – IP address spreadsheets, host name spreadsheets

Production deployment of configurations (based on the 96 devices in this documentation)

Conversion of OS10 to Sonic

Deployment of configs to leaf, spine and super spine network devices

Local or remote configuration of devices to be added to architecture

Troubleshoot connectivity issues

Modify configurations for future device deployments

Final hands-on review of the Artery Innovation Enterprise network with customer engineering staff

Physical leaf, spine, super spine topology

Underlay Logical IGP routing

Overlay BGP/EVPN

Layer 2 – Overlay Logical VXLAN

Create Documentation

Document 1: Layer 1 - Physical leaf, spine, super spine topology

Document 2: Layer 3 – Underlay Logical IGP routing

Document 3: Layer 3 – Overlay BGP/EVPN

Document 4: Layer 2 – Overlay Logical VXLAN

Document 5: Device Templates

Document 6: Device Configurations

Document 7: Ansible Playbook

Current Operating Procedure Discovery

Current run book review

Ticketing System review

Notification System review

SLA’s review

Reporting process review

Response team procedure review

Create New Run Book

Ticketing system procedure

Notification system review procedure

SLA’s requirements and procedure

Reporting process requirements and procedure

Response team procedure review

Troubleshooting

L2 issues

L3 issues

VxLAN issues

Routing issues

Ansible errors

Review of network topology, features imbedded in the design

Review of documentation store location and contents

Acceptance of design documents

Required Skills:

• CCNP R&S/CCNP Data Center
• Cisco ACI Fabric
• Cisco APIC
• Ansible scripting
• Sonic OS
• OSPF/BGP design
• VxLAN/eVPN