ArimaaForce-Cisco Engineer-Troy,MI-6Months+(USC/GC only)

Role : Cisco Engineer LEVEL 3 SME

Location : Troy,MI

Duration : 6Months+

Experience : 8+ yrs

We are looking for GC/USC

NO H1B’s/OPT EAD’s are accepted.

Cisco Nexus N5K : 2

Cisco 3750x Catalyst : 5

Cisco 3750G Catalyst : 2

Cisco 2960 Catalyst : 2

Cisco C3850 Catalyst : 2 The L3 Cisco Engineer would be part of a team supporting our client onsite at their location in Troy, Michigan.  The team consists of three Level 3 Engineers and two L2 Technicians located onsite with the client, and augmented by a 24x7 team located in our Virtual Command Center in Manila, Philippines for around the clock support.  This entire team would be responsible for the continual monitoring of John Deere Ls’ network connectivity to its 450+ branches, as well the patching and maintenance of its infrastructure. 

CATEGORIES OF ONSITE SUPPORT                                                                                        

L2 Help Desk/Network Triage

L2 Help Desk/Network Triage

L3 Infrastructure Hosting Support

L3 Cisco/Network Support

L3 Citrix Support

The Troy, Michigan-based data center provides support for their entire organization.  Here is a description of their technical environment:

Vendor:

Citrix : Citrix Farm XenApps, 90 plus PVS targets, Citrix NetScalers

EMC : VNX 5700, VNXe3200, LUN, CIFS, NFS, Volume, Partitions

VMWare : V-Center, ESX Hosts, HA, V-Motion, Cloning

Dell : PowerEdge Servers, Tape Library

Cisco : 2900 series routers, Nexus/Catalyst Switches

Microsoft : Windows 2008 Active Directory domain

Symantec : Backup/Restore, Anti-virus, Anti-spam

AppAssure : Backup/Restore

Websense : Proxy, Internet access, filtering, reporting

Technology:

Wireless : Cisco WLAN Controller, NPS and certificate authentication

Firewall : Cisco ASA 5500 series cluster, NAT

VPN : Cisco ASR 1000, Easy VPN, DM VPN and Users VPN

Servers : DHCP,DNS, WINS, Print, WDS, WSUS, Radius, CA

E-mail : Exchange 2007/2013 Server, DAG, HA

Internet : BGP, public  IP and DNS name resolution

BC/DR : Well Practiced with Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery

Raid : Raid 1, 5, 10 configuration

Thin Clients : Communication with Citrix XenAp

Description of Environment and Existing Infrastructure

Physical Servers

PowerEdge R910              4 CPUX 6 Core   Memory-128 GB               6

PowerEdge R900              4 CPUX 4Core    Memory- 128 GB              4

PowerEdge R810              4 CPUX 10Core  Memory- 256 GB              1

PowerEdge R720xd          2 CPUX 12Core  Memory- 384 GB              2

PowerEdge R720              1 CPUX 6Core    Memory- 48 GB                 1

PowerEdge R720xd          2 CPUX 8Core    Memory- 128 GB               1

PowerEdge R710              2 CPUX 4Core    Memory- 128 GB               5

PowerEdge R610              1 CPUX 4Core    Memory- 3 GB                    1

PowerEdge 2950              1 CPUX 4Core    Memory- 16 GB                  2

Storage

SAN Storage      

EMC VNX 5700 : 60 TB

EMC VNXe 3200 : 70 TB

Domain

Windows 2008R2 Active Directory forest domain

VMWare

V Center 5.1 Server (VM) : 1

ESX Hosts : 18

Virtual Infrastructure Servers

107 Virtual Servers in VMware environment

Citrix Servers

138 Citrix Virtual Servers in VMware environment

2 Physical Citrix NetScalers

Virtual Email Servers

Currently running MS Exchange 2007 : 2 Virtual CAS and 2 physical database Servers

Mail Boxes : 2587

Mail Box databases : 31

Active Directory

Active directory domain : 1

Users : 2500

Network

Data Center

Switches

Cisco MDS9124 Catalyst : 2

Routers

Cisco  3900 Series : 1

Cisco  3800 Series : 2

Cisco ASA 5500 Series : 5

Cisco ASR 1001X : 2

Cisco WLAN Controller : 1

Stores

Cisco routers 2900 Series : 13

Cisco routers 800 Series : 420

Cable or DSL Modems : 433

The Cisco 800 series routers will be replaced with the 2900 series over the next 12 to 18 months.

Citrix Environment

Stores/users connect via thin clients. Applications are accessible to users via a Citrix XenApp server

Laptops and Desktop PCs

Users in corporate offices primarily use Windows 7 on Laptops and Desktops. Primary supplier is Dell.

Printers

Printers are connected via network

Internet Service Provider

Data Center in Troy MI has 150 MB ISP connection.  Redundant Internet circuit is in planning phase

Corporate office in Alpharetta GA has 10 MB connection. Redundant Internet circuit will be deployed in 2015.

Each branch location is connected via T1 or broadband cable or DSL from 3 MB to 50 MB.

Software

Microsoft Office 2010

Maintaining connectivity for new and existing retail branches is key for this role, and the interview focuses on knowledge of ASAS’s and Firewalls in addition to other Cisco experience. 

Our client would like to identify a qualified candidate as soon as possible, and schedule the start date ASAP.

ArimaaForce LLC
USA & India
resumes@arimaaforcellc.com