Job Title: CISCO CCIE Consultant
Location: Remote with travel to Barrie HQ twice a month - 45 Sarjeant Dr., Barrie, ON
Job Type: 6-month contract with potential to be extended for up to 2 years
Start Date: Within 30 days
Office Hours - 8:30am to 5pm Monday through Friday - 40 hours
Pay rate: $80/hr to $90/hr; rates are negotiable
Responsibilities:
- Troubleshoot and escalate technical issues while monitoring and maintaining environment stability.
- Apply solid problem-solving techniques consistent with an advanced knowledge of technical and operational issues involving Cisco & Fortinet products.
- Assist in root cause analysis, diagnostics, and systems monitoring.
- Provide clear, concise, and customized documentation that is appropriate for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Provide evaluation in designing, updating, implementing latest Cisco & Fortinet products.
- Participate in the development and enforcement of company IT Standards, Policies, and Procedures, develop and update technical documentation.
- Provide onsite operational support for the network environment
- Provide status to client
- Participate in status meetings with client
- Work with the client resources to follow up on tasks that need to be completed by the client
- Review and assist in modifying, augmenting, and validating the current deployment project plan
- Identify communicate, and escalate issues associated with project execution and/or timelines
- Assist in coordination of activities required to make network architectural resources more effective
- Drive adoption of and response to architectural recommendations presented by network technical resources, remove communication barriers between architects, implementers, managers, and the business
- Knowledge Transfer and mentorship to First Level - As Required
- Perform software patching on all existing network devices within OT
- Work with application team to perform testing on patched devices to ensure the patch was successful
- Sustainment, documentation, and knowledge transfer
- Fortinet Firewalls: Firewall rules, environment builds (VDOM), and troubleshooting (captures)
- Cisco N9K, 5K, 2K: VLAN creations, Trunking, Port Channels, and troubleshooting
- Methods of Procedure (MOP) and Request for Change (RFC) process (ITSM), coordination with teams for security scans and impact analysis (H1 Prod)
- Review and provide feedback on network layout(s), IP addressing, routing, switching, application environments, flow, etc. (H1 Prod)
- Implement the required FW Rules for access into our environments
- Build FW rules for access from Citrix host to field routers
- Ensure client SCOP is followed
- Integrating Customer’s management software or other IT management systems
- Documentation of Project or the environment
Out of Scope
- Disk data destruction/erasure for any and all data
- Disposal of any decommissioned material
- Server, application, and data migration activities
- Integrating Customer’s management software or other IT management systems
- Unless otherwise specifically stated, the following are also excluded from the scope of this SOW:
- Ongoing hardware, driver, software updates, or administration for any product used or provided
- Procurement of hardware and software, as well as its associated licensing
- Resolution of software issues, outside this Project
- Formal hardware, software, and/or operating system training
- Documentation of Project or the environment
- All services, hardware, and applications not included in the scope of Services in this SOW are deemed out of scope
Skills Required
- Adhere to process and delivery time frames
- Ability to reference previous projects and accomplishments
- Team player
- Good written and oral communications
- On time, punctual and consistent each day
- Professional people skills when in the office
- Ability to meet time lines, dates and schedules
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Job Types: Full-time, Fixed term contract
Contract length: 6 months
Salary: $80.00-$90.00 per hour
Flexible language requirement:
Schedule:
Ability to commute/relocate:
- Toronto, ON: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)
Experience:
- Cisco technical and operational troubleshooting: 7 years (preferred)
Licence/Certification: