ektello - Owings Mills, MD
posted 5 months ago
Our client is a global investment management firm dedicated to helping clients achieve long-term success. They offer funds, subadvisory services, separate account management, and retirement plans and services for individuals, institutions, and financial intermediaries. The firm supports a diverse team and a collaborative culture that benefits from different backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, which is why their associates tend to stay for over 10 years. The main projects the network engineer will work on include Cisco software upgrades and brown-field equipment replacements. This role requires the contractor to be on-call two to three weeks per year and mandates full-time onsite work in Owings Mills, Maryland. The position entails designing, implementing, and maintaining the company's network infrastructure, specifically focusing on Cisco network infrastructure. The engineer will also analyze security vulnerabilities and recommend solutions to protect the network against potential threats, configure and maintain Cisco ISO devices, including routers, switches, and firewalls, and work with Nexus switches and related technologies such as Virtual Port Channels (VPC) and Fabric Path. Additionally, the role involves configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP, as well as working with switching technologies including VLANs, STP, EtherChannels, and Layer 2 and 3 switching.