Network EngineerContractMiddle town, NJ (Onsite)Long TermMultivendor exposure on Routers, switches (Physical and Virtual)Hands-on experience with datacenter fabrics (Cisco, Juniper etc... Various NOSs such as Junos, IOS-XR) is mustHands-on experience with Load Balancers like F5, Brocade is mustHands-on experience & Troubleshooting of protocols like MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, MBGP, BGP, OSPF, Route policies, Route-maps (Cisco), QOS, etc.Good Working knowledge and experience in VLAN, VRRP, GRE tunneling, IPsec tunneling, etc.Excellent understanding and work experience on Virtual Network functions, Various hypervisors such as VMWARE, KVMAbility to independently lead Layer-3/Layer-2 network troubleshooting and collaborate with network operations staff and vendors to conduct Root-Cause Analysis.Experienced with network hardware/software/firmware certification process.Able to work with systems engineering/design to plan and execute network/system feasibility and proof of concept tests.Hands-on experience with lab environments and network equipment test sets such as IXIA, Spirent, etc. is mustExperience in python scripting will be added advantage.Excellent communication skills.