IT - Network Analyst III

at  Robertson and Company

Our client is a top financial institution with significant North American holdings. They have operations across most major verticals, including institutional & corporate, wealth management, private client, commercial banking, treasury, and retail banking.
Introduction: Robertson is seeking a skilled Network Analyst with strong technical background in key aspects of Network related IT infrastructure, including routers, switches, Firewalls, DNS & DHCP services, LAN/WAN circuits to join our client.
Contract Dates: 12 months with potential to extend or convert
Pay Rates:
T4: $37.85 per hour
IC: $43.11 per hour
Business Hours: Monday to Friday (Remote)

Job Responsibilities:

• Perform Performance/Capacity planning, monitoring, analysis, recommendation and tracking/reporting for the existing network and its elements - based upon data analysis and baseline trend analysis
• Support complex application performance related Incidents and contribute to high priority enterprise incidents
• Work with Network as well as Client (LOB) Architects to stay on top of Network plans and projects coming down the pipeline with a 3–5-year view. Plan and assist in preparing the Network for the new projects. Assist them with the planning process and while assessing Network needs, upgrade requirements, etc.
• Work directly with client areas and with the Relationship Managers while keeping abreast with client issues, plans, projects, reporting requirements and work towards delivering solutions
• Monitoring network capacity issues proactively, report and remedy them before a real incident
• Provide consulting on testing new technology from capacity standpoint, come up with KPIs, thresholds and procedure for monitoring, alerting and reporting
• Analyze packet traces for understanding application flows, derive issues related network Capacity to come out with recommendations for optimal use of the network
• Maintain detailed growth models on an ongoing basis for each Line of Business based upon assimilated knowledge around current and upcoming projects. These projections will go as far out as 5 years into the future. Use this detailed model to actively plan for network WAN and LAN upgrades, provide input to the Network Architect as well as Engineering and ensure that upgrades occur in a timely manner
• Custom creation and ongoing discussion and delivery of client reporting as well as internal reporting necessary for Engineering and planning purposes - as driven by Capacity needs
• Develop new and improved processes around Capacity for existing and new technologies as introduced from time to time, e.g., Wireless, VOIP, Video, etc.
• Keep strict control over Circuit utilization trends as well as QoS class of service utilization trends over a period and in the short run to recommend timely upgrades as well as Class of Service tweaking and Application Optimization
• Assess and report upon all areas of the Network that require Capacity planning, e.g., Firewalls, Load Balancers, Distributed Directors, International locations, etc.

Experience & Qualification Requirements:

• A strong technical background in key aspects of Network related IT infrastructure, including routers, switches, Firewalls, DNS & DHCP services, LAN/WAN circuits, etc.
• Must be strong at making necessary recommendations and following through with the entire process until implementation of the upgrades is complete or remedy of the issues being forecasted has been implemented
• Experience working in large enterprise and coordination with multiple internal / external groups to complete the assigned tasks
• Will need to do both high level as well as granular planning exercises with control over report generation, analysis, using ad-hoc processes while managing Capacity practices (related experience required
• Skills in using network sniffers, deriving details and potential issues by analyzing the traces, Platforms like Extrahop, Riverbed ARX and Netscout Infinistream
• Modeling skills in a tool like OPNET (preferred) to perform current and future modeling relating to Network WAN and other components would be a definite plus
• Experience in scripting or advanced tools like SQL extraction, Data Mining, etc. will also be considered a plus
• Skills in planning capacity for Wireless systems and VoIP would be preferred
• Skills and experience around Capacity planning within a QoS environment is a must
• Experience in doing performance and capacity management in emerging technologies like cloud (Azure,AWS) and SDWAN
• An expert network performance / capacity management who not only possesses the attributes and experience listed for this position, but have the uncanny ability to analyze trend, identify outliers

Personal Attributes:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Excellent organizational skills
• Working with people and resolving conflicts
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment

• Perform Performance/Capacity planning, monitoring, analysis, recommendation and tracking/reporting for the existing network and its elements - based upon data analysis and baseline trend analysis
• Support complex application performance related Incidents and contribute to high priority enterprise incidents
• Work with Network as well as Client (LOB) Architects to stay on top of Network plans and projects coming down the pipeline with a 3–5-year view. Plan and assist in preparing the Network for the new projects. Assist them with the planning process and while assessing Network needs, upgrade requirements, etc.
• Work directly with client areas and with the Relationship Managers while keeping abreast with client issues, plans, projects, reporting requirements and work towards delivering solutions
• Monitoring network capacity issues proactively, report and remedy them before a real incident
• Provide consulting on testing new technology from capacity standpoint, come up with KPIs, thresholds and procedure for monitoring, alerting and reporting
• Analyze packet traces for understanding application flows, derive issues related network Capacity to come out with recommendations for optimal use of the network
• Maintain detailed growth models on an ongoing basis for each Line of Business based upon assimilated knowledge around current and upcoming projects. These projections will go as far out as 5 years into the future. Use this detailed model to actively plan for network WAN and LAN upgrades, provide input to the Network Architect as well as Engineering and ensure that upgrades occur in a timely manner
• Custom creation and ongoing discussion and delivery of client reporting as well as internal reporting necessary for Engineering and planning purposes - as driven by Capacity needs
• Develop new and improved processes around Capacity for existing and new technologies as introduced from time to time, e.g., Wireless, VOIP, Video, etc.
• Keep strict control over Circuit utilization trends as well as QoS class of service utilization trends over a period and in the short run to recommend timely upgrades as well as Class of Service tweaking and Application Optimization
• Assess and report upon all areas of the Network that require Capacity planning, e.g., Firewalls, Load Balancers, Distributed Directors, International locations, etc