Network Engineer in Chicago, IL
Navigant Consulting, Inc. (NYSE: NCI) is an international consulting firm combining deep industry expertise and integrated solutions to assist companies and their legal counsel in enhancing stakeholder value, improving operations, and addressing the challenges of uncertainty, risk and significant business model change. Professional services include dispute, investigation, operational and business advisory, risk management and regulatory advisory, and transaction advisory solutions. The Company focuses on industries undergoing substantial regulatory or structural change, including financial services, insurance, healthcare and energy.
The Company has more than 1,700 professional consultants and more than 2,500 total employees, with headquarters in Chicago and a geographic presence in 41 cities - including recent international expansions in London, Canada, China, and the Czech Republic. Navigant Consulting has recently been recognized by Forbes as one of the ?200 Best Small Companies? (2005) and by Fortune as one of the ?100 Fastest Growing Companies? (2005).
Candidate Responsibilities:
- Design and installation of network architectures including: Cisco routers, switches, wireless and VPNs.
- Design and installation of Cisco AVVID technologies, including call manager and Unity voice messaging systems.
- Maintenance and support of network and telecom systems to ensure overall availability of company's networks.
- Configure and support monitoring systems and tools including NetIQ AppManager and Ipswitch WhatsUp.
- Perform capacity planning activities based on trending tools and monitoring systems.
- Perform system and equipment upgrades as needed.
- Perform DNS and DHCP changes and additions.
- Support networking needs of Security, Desktop and Server teams.
- Create documentation for network design, support and maintenance procedures.
- Interface with Help Desk on an ongoing basis.
- Provide on-call services after normal business hours when required.
- Travel: 10-20% or as needed.
Candidate Requirements:
- 4+ years of Cisco networking experience
- Understanding of TCP/IP and related routing protocols, such as OSPF, BGP, and EIGRP.
- Experience with Windows 2000 Administration.
- Excellent communications skills and the ability to effectively communicate findings both written and orally using layman terms and technical terms.
- Strong customer service skills.
- Ability to take ownership of projects from start to completion.
- Excellent troubleshooting and problem resolution skills.
- Ability to work closely with co-workers to resolve and document networking issues/problems.
- Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or telecommunications preferred.
- Proven hands-on experience in a large-scale network environment.
- CCDP/CCNP certification preferred; CCIE certification a plus.
The company offers competitive compensation packages including an incentive compensation plan, comprehensive medical/dental/life insurance, 401(k) and employee stock purchase plans.
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