Job Title: Network Engineer (Advanced)

Location : Cincinnati, Ohio (Hybrid) Very Flexible Schedule

Come join us:

Vernovis is an Inc. 5000 staffing and consulting firm, serving small and mid-sized businesses in the Cincinnati, Dayton and Columbus, Ohio areas. We help companies complete critical business initiatives that are championed by their Technology and Financial leaders. Additionally, we offer expertise in the Cybersecurity space.

Vernovis is currently recruiting for a Network Engineer at a well-known partner here in Cincinnati.

If interested, please email Jonathon Juriga at

What You'll Do:

• Researching advanced technology trends
• Identifying emerging trends and initiating research projects for team members
• Designing innovative solutions using new technologies
• Recommending short-term alternatives when appropriate
• Creating prototypes and leading initial development and testing through to production
• Defining enterprise-wide scoped SLAs to ensure requirements are met or exceeded
• Escalating problems as required based on SLAs
• Developing client satisfaction and capacity planning metrics
• Coordinating assessment of emerging technologies typically as the lead subject matter expert
• Evaluating and recommending new projects or tools for the organization; overseeing cost-benefit analysis and presenting options to management teams
• Assisting in the resolution of support issues escalated by senior operations or development personnel
• Providing technical expertise across business functions; articulating the relationship between business and the data and technology that support the business
• Identifying opportunities to improve business processes via new technologies; making

What Experience You'll Have:

Required:

• High school diploma/GED required; Bachelor's degree in IT discipline, preferred
• Minimum 10 years of experience in Information Technology
• Minimum 5 years of experience with design, implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting enterprise-level WAN/LAN technology including Internet Edge routers, campus switching (core, distribution, and access), and data center switching; experience with Cisco ASR and ISR routers, Cisco Catalyst switches, and Nexus switches; experience with DCNM/NDFC, VXLAN, and FabricPath preferred
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting WAN protocols and technologies including BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, MPLS, DMVPN, VRF, and GRE/IPSec tunnels; experience with ISIS, Multicast, preferred
• Minimum 5 years of experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting LAN protocols and technologies including VLAN, Spanning-tree, VTP, 802.1Q, HSRP, GLBP, VPC, and EtherChannel
• Minimum 5 years of experience with management, configuration, and troubleshooting of an enterprise-level wireless environment using centralized command and control or wireless controllers; experience with Cisco WLCs (9800, 5520, and 5508) and APs, preferred
• Minimum 3 years of experience with management, configuration, and troubleshooting of enterprise firewalls; experience with Cisco Firepower Threat Defense firewalls and Firepower Management Console, preferred

Preferred:

• Experience with management, configuration, and troubleshooting of: Cisco ISE with 802.1x implementation, F5 environment running LTM, GTM, ASM, and BigIQ
• Experience with applications Cisco Prime/DNAC, Chrionicel/Splunk, SolarWinds, Infoblox, Wireshark, CradlePoint ECM, Cloudflare
• Working knowledge of policy-based routing, CoS/QoS, AAA, RADIUS, TACACS+, SNMP, NTP, and IPv6
• CCNP or equivalent competency
• Experience with configuring and troubleshooting: Viptela SDWAN, Cisco Umbrella, networking components of GCP and Azure