Beschreibung
Our client is currently seeking a Network Engineer to be based near Darmstadt, near Frankfurt on an initial 3 year daily rate contract to commence around July 2012.
The position requires fluent English speaking and writing and knowledge of French. Knowledge of German is not required.
Working both as the lead and the Support Engineer, depending on the specific project and forming part of the communications team, you will required to execute networking engineering, design and maintenance of network systems. of storage systems with special focus on archive and retrieval services. The duties include the administration and operation of the central archive systems, maintenance of the external storage, inventory and support to the operation of the storage services.
The following experience is required.
* Experience of specifying, planning and preparing network engineering activities.
* Cisco network technology, architectures and equipment, Cisco operating systems; MPLS, VPN Network QOS techniques and solutions;
* High availability network techniques and protocols, routing protocols eg HSRP, VSS, OSPF, BGP, RIP;
* Data center network architecture;
* Service provider WAN interfacing: using MPLS, SDH, Ethernet-based, E1/E3, ISDN, leased line services;
* Experience of working and performing the tasks listed above in 24/7 high-availability operations environments;
In addition, knowledge and hands-on experience with the following is considered very
desirable:
* Network security solutions and architectures - Cisco security equipment, ASA, FWSM, IPSEC VPN, TACACS+;
* Access control and authentication solutions;
* Network Virtualization architectures and solutions;
* Network management and monitoring techniques and tools: JFF, Nagios, Cisco Works, RMON, SNMP;
* IP multicast and multicast related protocols and standards (eg PGM);
* Network time systems: GPS receivers, NTP Servers;
* Protocol analysers;
* Tools: Snort, wireshark, tcpdump, iptables, cricket, iperf;
* Monitoring and supervision of external service provider performance, knowledge of service management and SLAs.
The consultant shall be familiar with the following HW/SW systems, particularly in the areas of network interface configuration, TCP stack configuration and high availability interface configuration:
* Solaris, Linux, AIX, Microsoft Windows operating systems;
* Configuration and monitoring of network protocols and applications, eg DNS, SNMP, FTP, NTP.
If this position is of interest, please apply quoting availability, experience, daily rate with your Resume attached in MS Word.