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Position: Specialist Level III – Senior Network Engineer Client: CUNY Central Office, 395 Hudson Street, New York, NY (onsite) Start: Around October 21, 2026 Duration: 1 year Hours: 9am–5pm EST, plus after hours/weekends as needed Travel: Regular travel to CUNY campuses across the five NYC boroughs and Long Island Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the US Mandatory Qualifications: - 7+ years hands-on Senior Network Engineer experience - Cisco Optical Network Solutions (ONS): troubleshooting with Cisco TAC, onsite hardware swaps/installs, fiber cabling (troubleshoot, clean, replace) - Cisco Catalyst and Nexus route/switch, Cisco ASR routing - BGP (iBGP/eBGP), OSPF/EIGRP, TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, firewalls, load balancers, IPAM - Intermediate Cisco and Meraki Wi-Fi (incl.
Aironet) - Packet capture and traffic flow analysis; structured root cause analysis - Network automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Git or similar (config backup, compliance, drift detection, provisioning); Network-as-Code exposure a plus - Senior escalation point; mentoring junior engineers Key Duties: - Day-to-day operations across ONS, Catalyst, Nexus, ASR, Aironet and Meraki; LAN/WAN and cloud connections - Writing MOPs, submitting and implementing changes in ServiceNow - Incident response, ticket management, Cisco TAC and carrier coordination - Field replacement of failed ONS modules at CUNY sites - Training and knowledge transfer to CUNY network engineering/NOC staff