Thursday, June 26, 2014
Job Opening in San Jose: Network Engineer
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NETWORK ENGINEERING
EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY
Are you passionate about the future of enterprise networking technology? Would you like to be a part of cutting edge
service offerings, working in challenging, customer support roles?
GDH Consulting, Inc. has partnered with CISCO SYSTEMS
We are working to identify high-potential, high-performing individuals for a full-time opportunity to support a new
professional service offering related to Software Defined Networking (SDN) / Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI)
The Ideal Candidate: Professional Characteristics
Not resistant to think about things in a new approach. Toss out years of "this is the way things are done" and look
at them from a different perspective
Client-facing skills to include cross-functional influence, external and internal consulting/partnering.
Personal pride in work tasks
Able to source information from many different places, assemble it and find a solution to a problem, where the
path to resolution will not be clearly spelled out
Ability to work with teams and build relationships using respectful communication/collaboration style
The Ideal Candidate: Technical Competencies
Min 3-5 years of networking industry work experience
Solid understanding of modern Data Center design, medium/high skill level in networking concepts
Knowledge of Three Tiered application environments
Strong technical knowledge of the data center and its components: Applications, Storage, Network, Server and
projects surrounding their planning, design, implementation, operation, and optimization.
Network/Infrastructure Security technologies (Firewall, access control, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention,
administrative access control)
Solid understanding of physical/virtual server connectivity models and leading vendors
Programmatic control of infrastructure elements (data model, API) and integration frameworks
Competency in software development languages (Python preferred)
Grasp of object oriented programming and associated thought processes, including modeling
Networking: OSI Layer 2 (Spanning tree, vPC, EtherChannel, VLAN, etc), Layer 3 switching /routing (OSPF,
EIGRP, ISIS, BGP, MPLS, IPv4/6), DNS/DHCP WAN/ISP, network virtualization (N1kv, VRF), basics of higher
layer protocols: SSL/TLS, HTTP, real-time traffic (voice/video)
Content Switching (OSI Layer 4-7 Switching, Loadbalancers), Caching and Content Delivery
How to Apply
Interested candidates are welcome to submit resumes (targeting the above qualifications) to:
Nicole Goodfriend, GDH Consulting, Inc. ngoodfriend@gdhconsulting.com