Network Engineer II

Kforce has a client in Kansas City, MO, that is looking for a Network Engineer II for an onsite direct hire opportunity.

Responsibilities:

• Network Engineer II will lead and collaborate across brands both nationally and globally to achieve a secure and robust environment that meets local and global business and regulatory needs. • Develop, implement, and maintain policies, procedures, and associated training plans for infrastructure administration. • Research and recommend products, services, protocols, and standards to support all network infrastructure procurement and development efforts. • Monitor network performance and provide statistics and reports. • Develop strategies for maintaining network infrastructure. • Keep in touch with the organizations stakeholders, department heads, and end users through regular written and face-to-face interactions about relevant infrastructure activities. • Assume Incident Management responsibility during severity one network events. • Build strong partnerships with local vendors that provide essential infrastructure. • Collaborate with global IT and globally defined infrastructure vendors for ongoing operations of globally provided infrastructure products & services.

As a Network Engineer II, you will determine the scope, objectives, and outcomes of infrastructure projects and initiatives. You will lead the Infrastructure project management process and work with team members and stakeholders to achieve expected deliverables.

Conduct project post-mortems and create recommendation reports to identify success and opportunities. Write RFPs, bids, contracts, work reports, and other documents for infrastructure projects and related work.

Assist with the planning and deployment of IT security measures for infrastructure systems.