Senior Network Administrator/3-4 Month Contract/Downtown Atlanta

Fast-paced, growing company has an immediate need for a Sr Network Administrator on a contract (possibly to perm) basis. The focus of the Sr Network position is hands on Cisco experience, F-5 load balancers, Firewalls etc. You will support all network routing, Firewalls, Switches, load balancers and other aspects of network architecture, network support, and network monitoring. You will report into the company's Network Manager and work with team members to deliver high quality solutions to support hosted clients within the Industry.

Responsibilities:

- Server and software support for employees and project teams
- Onsite and remote server administration, setup, and configuration and maintenance
- Maintain server hardware inventory, including procurement
- Responsible for repairing Servers, both internally and via vendor support
- Perform tape and disk-based backups for corporate and production environments as well as maintaining offsite tape rotation strategies
- Will manage Server images, security hardening of Servers, and perform remediation of discovered vulnerabilities
- Provide corporate networking and security support to internal users and to external client requests
- Support for deployments to our hosting facility and for installed solutions in an on-call rotation schedule.

Requirements:

- 6+ years Cisco Router & switch configuration and troubleshooting experience
- 4+ years Cisco ASA Firewall configuration and troubleshooting experience
- 4+ years Cisco SSL & IPSEC VPN configuration and troubleshooting experience
- 4+ years with IDS and IPS appliances and software configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting experience
- 2+ years' network design and documentation experience (diagramming, visio, etc.)
- Experience with Windows 2003 and Windows 2008/2008 R2
- 5+ years experience building and maintaining Linux Servers required
- 4+ years experience as a systems administrator with coordinated experience in patching, security hardening, and image creation for both Windows and Linux/Unix platforms
- Experience with VMWare/VSphere setup and configuration
- IIS 6.0 and IIS 7.0 required

Preferences:

- HP and Dell Server hardware preferred
- Hosting operations support/data center experience preferred
- Acronis Imaging Software