NOTE: THIS POSITION IS TO JOIN AS W2 ONLY.

Network Engineer (Lab Environment)

Location: Westlake, TX

Duration: 12+ Months

Technologies/tools Supported: VXLAN, Segment Routing, MPLS-VPN, BGP, EBH, Timing, Routing Protocols, IPv4, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, VTS, DCNM, Fortinet Firewall

Platforms: Cisco, Nokia, Juniper

Description:

The contractor will be responsible for and assist the Lab pre-production testing of various features/software/hardware. The contractor will help identify and troubleshoot issues ahead of time before the deployment and helps with the validation of the design in the lab environment providing valuable inputs such as design parameters tweaks or modification required.
The contractor will assist with troubleshooting and root-causing the issues by collaborating with vendor teams such as TAC and architecture/design team. They support troubleshooting and identifying various software and hardware issues/defects and help validate fix/workarounds for the issues.

The contractor will also provide support on the vendors hardware/software that includes the following activities:

MOP validation
Software Upgrades
Hardware Upgrades
Configurations Support
VTS Template creation and testing
Design validation
Lab Issue Troubleshooting support
TAC/RMA support assistance and coordination for lab
Failover/redundancy testing
Production issue repro on the lab setup
Lab Change window support
Lab device Alarm clearing

Deliverables:

Activity logs/reports
Weekly updates on the activities/deliverables