WAN ENGINEER

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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.