Network Engineer - Consultant

Our Fortune 500 client is looking for a Sr. Network Engineer on their project based in Columbia, SC.

Job Title: Network Engineer

Location: Columbia, SC-Hybrid

Duration: 12+ months

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W2 Only

Job Description:

Daily Duties / Responsibilities:

• Effectively interact and communicate with peer to Director-level IT professionals.
• Provide feedback to team regarding product issues, enhancements and new features.
• Must have initiative, drive and be a self-starter.
• Ability to ask pertinent questions of others.
• Proactively seek to identify, communicate and implement process related improvements.
• Effectively manage multiple tasks and activities concurrently and able to provide periodic status updates to key stakeholders.
• Collaborate extensively with peers and management to resolve client issues while actively contributing to a growing knowledge network that improves the effectiveness of our team and the information available to our clients.
• Prioritize numerous issues of varying severity, and effectively manage the resolution of all issues within accepted service levels. This includes ownership of the data entered into the Helpdesk system and appropriately updating both client and appropriate employees of status of all issues on a timely basis.
• Good customer skills, be attentive to detail, and responsive to customer tickets.

Technical

• Troubleshoot and recommend technical solutions.
• Develop workaround solutions as appropriate.
• Perform equipment and software upgrades.
• Install, configure, test, monitor, and maintain system and application hardware, and software.
• Diagnose and resolve problems related to hardware and software; and escalate complex issues to other groups or vendors for resolution.
• Maintain familiarity with current computer and network products.
• Adhere to corporate information security guidelines and promote information security among coworkers
• Performs other duties and special projects as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• 13+ Years of Experience in IT
• 3+ Years of State Government Experience
• VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Certification OR 5+ additional Years of Experience in VMware.
• 8+ Years of Experience with Enterprise environments with known issues on both the SAN and VMware front.
• 8+ Years of Experience with VMware ESX administration.
• Experience with Capacity Planning based on technical analysis research.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with NIST, PCI, or a Pub 1075 environment
• Working technical knowledge of current network hardware, protocols, and Internet standards, including, TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP.
• Advanced knowledge in Windows Server 2012, 2016, and 2019

Required Education/Certification

• A Bachelor's degree in information technology systems, computer science, or related field

Please send your updated Word-format resume along with your best contact details to or call me at .                              

Stellar IT Solutions is a Global IT solutions provider headquartered in Rockville, MD, with operations in the US and India. Stellar IT Solutions has over 15 years of IT and consulting experience to give cost-effective solutions to many Fortune 500 companies.