Cisco Engineer
First seen by Alion on Sep 11, 2026.
Job Description :
Essential Functions :
- Design, develop, deploy, and maintain cloud-based solutions to meet business requirements.
- Integrate new solutions with existing cloud resources or on-premise infrastructure and evaluate impact to efficiently service changing business needs.
- Install, configure, test and maintain Windows Server operating systems, application software, and system management tools in a hosted Azure cloud environment.
- Design, install, configure, and proactively manage hosted and on-premise network devices such as load balancers, firewalls (Cisco & Fortinet), switches, access points, etc.
- Provide after-hours support as required for system maintenance, changes, updates, etc.
- Write and maintain PowerShell scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks.
- Develop and maintain technical documentation on systems configuration and usage.
- Responsible for providing statistical reports on systems availability and performance.
- Lead and/or assist with product/service investigation, evaluation, recommendation, and negotiations.
- Cross train team members on existing and new technologies as the opportunities arise.
- Knowledge of endpoint device configuration management / MDM/Intune & product O&M /lifecycle management.
- CCNA or related network certification preferred.
- Azure Certified Solutions Architect - Professional preferred.
- Experience working with Linux platforms preferred.
- Minimum 5 years' hands-on experience in the implementation and administration of complex, multi-location, multi-vendor, converged voice/data networks.
- Minimum 3 years' proven experience in cloud infrastructure architecture and design of complex distributed systems environments.
- Minimum 3 years' Azure, VMWare and/or Hyper-V Virtualization administration experience.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft hosted services such as Office 365 and Azure cloud infrastructure services.
- Experience designing, managing, and migrating cloud infrastructure environments, such as Azure, DevOps, AWS, Rackspace, etc.
- Experience working with virtualization platforms such as VMWare and Hyper-V.
- Advanced knowledge of storage architectures, including peripheral interfaces (SCSI, RAID, Ethernet) and multi-processor designs (SMP).
- Demonstrated proficiency in network administration in a large datacenter environment - DNS/DHCP, Load Balancing (F5 Networks, AWS ELB), Firewalls (Cisco, Fortinet, IDS/IPS, IPSEC VPN).
- Excellent network latency analysis, performance monitoring, and troubleshooting skills
Skills
Cisco, Firewall, Network Protocols, Routing & Switching, PowerShell, Configuration Management, CCNA, Linux, Cloud Infrastructure, Virtualization, Hyper-V