Now Hiring: Network Engineer

Are you looking for a Network Engineer position with a leading Chicago technology organization?   Are you looking for a position that encourages you to continue your professional growth with real world hands on exposure to a wide variety of today’s networking and security technologies?  We are seeking to add an experienced engineer to our Managed Services team.  Candidates should thrive in an open, fast-paced environment with a range of learning opportunities.  This position will report to our Chicago office and service clients generally in the Chicago Land area.

We are a full service networking consultant team. We also maintain top-tier partnerships with industry leading hardware and software companies such as Cisco, Juniper, Check Point, Citrix, Riverbed, NetApp, F5, and Microsoft.

 Responsibilities include:

• Support our customer’s engineers with questions or issues they may have
• Effectively interact with customers whose skills may range to Level 3 expert network engineers
• Engineer and implement Managed Services solutions
• Occasional face to face interactions with customers in pre-sales support role, installations, or onsite projects.
• Design, build & configure Routers, switches, firewalls, and other IT appliances
• Document and diagram clients environments

The following are essential for this position:

• Must have experience with an emphasis on client or customer support as a network engineer
• Must have solid current hands-on expertise with networking technologies – certification highly desired
• Must have solid experience with networking protocols such as BGP & OSPF
• Additionally other technologies such as Citrix, Check Point, F5, Juniper, Riverbed, NetApp experience and certifications a plus
• Proven record of organization and documentation skills
• Minimum of 3-5 years network engineering and support experience.
• Self-motivated and comfortable in a fast-paced startup culture.
• A “smart risk-taker” marked by creativity and strong problem solving skills.
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and oral).
• BA/BS in information technology or related field, or equivalent experience.
• Expertise with a variety of tools used for monitoring and managing networks

Please provide desired salary and salary history on resume.  If you feel that your skills are a match to our requirements, please email your resume in Word or text format to: resume@rkon.com