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Title: WAN Engineer
Start Date: ASAP
Location: Newark, NJ
Duration: 9-12+ months
Job Description
Required Skills, Competencies,
Education or Experience: • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field and at least 4, typically 6 or more years of related work experience in IT. Without a degree, at least 8 years of related work experience in IT, • Demonstrated leadership capabilities through projects or other work planning experiences, • Demonstrated experience managing outsourced vendors (on and off shore) within the information technology field, • Good to strong facilitation skills, • Strong judgment and management skills, • Strong analytical ability,
• Good to excellent leadership, technical teamwork and interpersonal skills, • Deep knowledge and documented track record of solution design, implementation and support in data and converged network infrastructure including most of the following
:
o Routing Protocols including EIGRP and BGP, LANs and LAN Protocols, o Wireless LANs, Wireless WANs,
o Network Management tools,
o Local and Geographic Load Balancers,
o WAN optimization (Cisco WAAS products), o Virtual Private Networks (VPNs),
o Firewalls, Web Application Firewalls,
o Licensed Radio and Microwave carrier based WAN networks,
o Working with carriers/vendors to design and implement WAN architectures, o WAN traffic management and oversight utilizing QoS,
o Drafting and maintaining network hardware, design and configuration standards,
• Familiarity with technologies focused on the utility industry and their IP protocols DNP, and SCADA.
• Desired knowledge in SCADA networks and industry security standards includingNERC/CIP, FERC.
• Ability to foster working relationships with the team, IT Management and Client departments,
• Ability to explain technical concepts to the business users in the context of business requirements.
• Knowledgeable of techniques to effectively elicit requirements from end-users, individually or as a group (e.g. prototyping)
• Ability to define performance and scalability attributes, constraints, and other nonfunctional requirements
• A strong methodical approach to troubleshooting technology issues.
• Ability to make recommendations and engineer projects from conception to successful implementation.
• Proven ability to multitask and manage multiple projects in a cross-functional, mixed matrix environment.
• Excellent communication, interpersonal, organizational and team building skills,
• Excellent business judgment.
• Strong change management experience, requirements management and process knowledge. Familiarity with managing software projects.