Senior Network Engineer

Why consider BalancePoint?
BalancePoint was founded in an effort to pioneer a radical new approach to delivering services and value at levels never before seen. Our foundation is built upon a philosophy of integrity, collaboration and transparency between our firm, our resources and our clients, which balances the interests of all parties and creates and sustains genuine trusting partnerships.

What does this mean to you?
BalancePoint applies common-sense in syncing workers to work: The open labor market should determine the value of a skill set. By developing trusting partnerships and leveraging market intelligence, BalancePoint values your worth as an employee while delivering value to our clients. We never play games at BalancePoint: Our commitment to transparency means that you will always be treated as an equal partner in our relationship. This response to the challenges facing our clients and resources brings all parties into balance.

So, why BalancePoint?
Because at BalancePoint, people matter…and our business practices show it.

BalancePoint is catching on!
According to the Kansas City Business Journal, BalancePoint is listed as one of the top companies in our industry in Kansas City, topping #18 for 2005 and climbing to #12 for 2006. In October, 2007 BalancePoint cracked the top 10 both in The Kansas City Business Journal and The Kansas City Star. In September, 2008, BalancePoint was honored by Ingram’s magazine as the #1 staffing firm in Kansas City.

 Senior Network Engineer

BalancePoint, a firm that aligns top-quality professionals with our clients' operational needs, has an opportunity for a deeply experienced, and highly motivated Network Engineer! This is an incredible opportunity with an extremely dynamic, growth-oreinted gloabl company based here in the Kansas City metropolitan area. This company is focused on keeping innovation and competitionalive by providing a truly exciting, real-time fast environment, always on the leading edge of technology. This is a deeply sophisticated organization that can put your career on the map! It is a great chance to work with some of the most brilliant technical minds in the industry in a highly collaborative, high-stakes environment.

In this role you will utilize your deep technical expertise in Cisco and Foundry devices to maintain and plan upgrades to multiple LAN, WAN and MAN networks, including routers, switches and firewalls. You will maintain documentation of network configurations and data center layouts and will design and coordinate new circuit installs as well as perform network changes. This may require some travel.

This role will require an exceptionally motivated individual with extensive knowledge of Cisco router and switch configuration, as well as Foundry device configuration. The following is also required for this role:

• In-depth knowledge of Cisco firewall configuration, PIX and ASA
• Experience with packet capture tools such as Wireshark and tcpdump
• Experience with WAN circuit provisioning and sizing
• Knowledge of network design principles
• Knowledge of network troubleshooting principles

Cisco certifications, such as CCNA, CCNP are a big plus.

A Bachelor's Degree is required.