Job Title: CISCO CCIE Consultant
Location: Remote with travel to Barrie HQ twice a month - 45 Sarjeant Dr., Barrie, ON
Job Type: 6-month contract with potential to be extended for up to 2 years
Start Date: Within 30 days
Office Hours - 8:30am to 5pm Monday through Friday - 40 hours
Pay rate: $80/hr to $90/hr; rates are negotiable

Responsibilities:

• Troubleshoot and escalate technical issues while monitoring and maintaining environment stability.
• Apply solid problem-solving techniques consistent with an advanced knowledge of technical and operational issues involving Cisco & Fortinet products.
• Assist in root cause analysis, diagnostics, and systems monitoring.
• Provide clear, concise, and customized documentation that is appropriate for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Provide evaluation in designing, updating, implementing latest Cisco & Fortinet products.
• Participate in the development and enforcement of company IT Standards, Policies, and Procedures, develop and update technical documentation.
• Provide onsite operational support for the network environment
• Provide status to client
• Participate in status meetings with client
• Work with the client resources to follow up on tasks that need to be completed by the client
• Review and assist in modifying, augmenting, and validating the current deployment project plan
• Identify communicate, and escalate issues associated with project execution and/or timelines
• Assist in coordination of activities required to make network architectural resources more effective
• Drive adoption of and response to architectural recommendations presented by network technical resources, remove communication barriers between architects, implementers, managers, and the business
• Knowledge Transfer and mentorship to First Level - As Required
• Perform software patching on all existing network devices within OT
• Work with application team to perform testing on patched devices to ensure the patch was successful
• Sustainment, documentation, and knowledge transfer
• Fortinet Firewalls: Firewall rules, environment builds (VDOM), and troubleshooting (captures)
• Cisco N9K, 5K, 2K: VLAN creations, Trunking, Port Channels, and troubleshooting
• Methods of Procedure (MOP) and Request for Change (RFC) process (ITSM), coordination with teams for security scans and impact analysis (H1 Prod)
• Review and provide feedback on network layout(s), IP addressing, routing, switching, application environments, flow, etc. (H1 Prod)
• Implement the required FW Rules for access into our environments
• Build FW rules for access from Citrix host to field routers
• Ensure client SCOP is followed
• Integrating Customer’s management software or other IT management systems
• Documentation of Project or the environment

Out of Scope

• Disk data destruction/erasure for any and all data
• Disposal of any decommissioned material
• Server, application, and data migration activities
• Integrating Customer’s management software or other IT management systems
• Unless otherwise specifically stated, the following are also excluded from the scope of this SOW:
• Ongoing hardware, driver, software updates, or administration for any product used or provided
• Procurement of hardware and software, as well as its associated licensing
• Resolution of software issues, outside this Project
• Formal hardware, software, and/or operating system training
• Documentation of Project or the environment
• All services, hardware, and applications not included in the scope of Services in this SOW are deemed out of scope

Skills Required

• Adhere to process and delivery time frames
• Ability to reference previous projects and accomplishments
• Team player
• Good written and oral communications
• On time, punctual and consistent each day
• Professional people skills when in the office
• Ability to meet time lines, dates and schedules