Job Title: Network Consultant (Cisco) Location: Chicago- IL - (Onsite) Duration: Long Term Job description: Bachelor's degree in Computer science or equivalent, with minimum 12+ Years of relevant experience. Layer 2/3 technologies VLANs, vPC, Segmentation PalAltFirewalls and CiscSD-WAN architurecture and implemantion SD-WAN experience perferred with CiscViptella CiscNX-OS, CiscACI a plus Firwalls (PalAlto,) Understanding of OTV and Datacenter/ Interconnections WAN technologies, point tpoint, MPLS, DMVPN,, IPSEC VPN, SD-WAN including QoS SD-WAN Policy based routing Design of network management tools and monitoring tools performance such as packetloss, commited information rate and/or throughput in addiiton tup/down status Experince in Migration of existing network services tnewly implemented network services Skills in Python for ACI scripting purposes, other sripting langaugages a plus Riverbed or other WAN accelaration implemenation experience Deep experience BGP and EGIRP, OSPF routing protocols including (NTP, DHCP,) Deep understanding of Polices and design of Quality of Service (QoS/CoS) Network Management Netflow, SPAN, SNMP, Logging, Deep understanding of Role Based Access control such as Cisco ISE or Active Directory integration Automation experience is a plus, such as automated network device Intrusion detection and IPS a plus Firewall writing and understanding a plus Required Qualifications: Extensive network architecting experience with Palo Alto firewall and Cisco NX-OS including Cisco Viptela