Network Consultant Job Description
Network consultant
provides configurations and technical leadership as a primary technical resource on Internet Protocol (IP) router network technologies.
Network Consultant Duties & Responsibilities
To write an effective network consultant job description, begin by listing detailed duties, responsibilities and expectations. We have included network consultant job description templates that you can modify and use.
Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Configure and setup Cisco/other Firewalls, VPN systems and Security appliances for access to vital business applications
Maintain a thorough understanding of the basics behind the Internet and its workings (DNS, Security, IP Routing, HTTP, VPN)
Lead design and implementation of wide range of Cisco networking solution for internal and external customers
Deliver complete technology solutions and provide post-installation technical support
Analyze business needs and implement complete solutions that meet business requirements
Develop and implement operational procedures for proactive monitoring of the company networking data and telecommunications infrastructure
Serve as a technical lead for the internal networking team providing training and coaching on new technologies and best operational practices
Network Planning (internal) – provide technology consulting for internal teams
The Network Operations Sr
Evaluate costs and labour for telecom equipment
Network Consultant Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Network Consultant
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: CCIE, CCNP, ITIL, CCNA, JNCA, CCIP/CCSP, CCENT, GRE, IPSEC, PMP
Education for Network Consultant
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the network consultant job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Associate Degree in Computer Science, Education, Engineering, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Technical, Engineering Technology, Technology, Business, Electrical Engineering
Skills for Network Consultant
Desired skills for network consultant include:
Products
Applications
Health care contracts
Provider reimbursement methods and claims processing systems
Ability to produce comprehensive yet understandable technical documentation
Technologies and their network requirements/impact
Communications technologies and inter-networking principles
Routing
TCP/IP protocol suite
Cisco ACI technologies
Desired experience for network consultant includes:
Cisco IPT (VoIP) experience
Self-motivated and capable of multitasking under pressure $
Advance knowledge of market trends in Networking
Solid understanding of industry specific IT requirements from two or more verticals, transportation/rail, retail, banking, health care
Strong experience in installing and configuring IP network equipment in a Service Provider (Telecom) environment, with core network skills including RADIUS, AAA, TCP/IP, DHCP, LDAP, SNMP
Good background understanding and knowledge of network management software systems (AAA, Billing, NMS, LDAP) and their interaction/integration with network elements
Network Consultant Examples
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Network Consultant Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of network consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for network consultant
- Identification of catchment risks
- Upgrade plans
- Evolve technical solutions
- Refresh plans
- Manage network technical services strategy and planning process for network related teams
- Drives architecture standards across Network team
- Participate in examining IT infrastructure and evaluate and report out findings
- Assist in the design of and project management for implementation new technologies (Data Center, Enterprise Network – Video/Voice/Data) for clients
- Provide training to the Operations and BU transport teams to help support the Transport Network
- Creation of a Certification Program for training and to keep track of what groups are certified after the training is complete
Qualifications for network consultant
- Expertise in WAN and Telco
- Experience with Cisco security solutions
- PCRF/SGSN/GGSN Integration Commissioning and administration (Charging, performance, O&M GPRS and UMTS interfaces Gr, Gn/Gp, Gs, Gd, Gb and IuPS)
- Excellent knowledge of SS7 protocol and procedures (SCCP, MTP2, MTP3b, MAP, RANAP, BSSGP, BSSGP+ and SIGTRAN), ATM and Frame Relay technologies
- Good Linux/Solaris expertise
- Strong background in networking infrastructure and network traffic analysis tools
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a network consultant. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for network consultant
- Support Government programs and clients by handling day to day client support activities, coordinate implementations, gathering and analyzing data from State and Government websites for excluded and disciplinary action for pharmacy providers
- Attending conference calls or on site Managed Care Organization meetings to discuss/confirm implementation activities, such as producing pharmacy provider overlays
- Tracking and reporting the progress of pharmacy solicitation activities, identifying pharmacy providers that need to obtain Medicaid id’s
- Verifying processes such as the pharmacy roster and confirmation of member ID card format
- Production of reporting to support the Managed Care Organization or State requirement/request
- Upon implementation the Consultant is responsible for analyzing and identifying issues and working with internal partners to resolve them in a timely manner
- Lead small team of technician to analyze requirements, prepare solutions, present to the client
- Incident troubleshooting and reporting , reporting on SLA, Root Cause
- Plan, Test, review changes and provide technical guidance to implementation team
- Prepare/Update operational manuals, Standard operating procedures
Qualifications for network consultant
- Proven expertise in design, implementation and maintenance of complex network solutions that ensure high security and end-user transparency, while maintaining rigorous operational service levels
- Candidates must have at least 5 years previous internal network administration or external network consulting experience in Microsoft environments
- Minimum 8 years of progressive data network experience in a large, complex, fast paced environment
- Strong operations efficiency orientation (process, costing ) and ability to effectively manage ongoing operations within budget while identifying opportunities for ongoing efficiency, familiarity with ITIL framework
- Experience working in a geographically dispersed, global organization with responsibilities spanning multiple continents
- Citrix experience a plus
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of network consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for network consultant
- Develop various project deliverables (Network Deployment Workbook, assessment reports, workshops, migration plans, as needed for each assigned customer engagement)
- Acquire and maintain expert level knowledge in two or more areas such as data center, campus/end-user, hyper-converged, SDN, wireless, and firewall services
- Understand, collect, propose, and communicate requirements to all solution stakeholders (internal and external)
- Serves as a subject matter expert for automation and orchestration, providing assistance & technical guidance to less experienced team members
- Design and implementing data center automation frameworks and flow models for automating processes
- Develop specifications and test criteria for workflows that will automate process
- Identify, architect, design, and implement new automation workflows to handle various facets of IT System Management and Administration consisting of but not limited to virtual environment(s) creation and decommission, data validation procedures and integration with Web front-end UI’s, Network Tier, Storage & Compute Tier using API and WSDL calls
- Role will be accountable for working multiple internal departments to in delivering enterprise automation solutions
- Develop documentation for automation as required by the application support teams for acceptance of systems changes into production
- Acquire and maintain expert level knowledge in two or more areas such as data center, campus/end-user, hyper-converged
Qualifications for network consultant
- Able to perform a wide variety of technical and organizational tasks and may lead or direct the work of others
- Professional or lower level industry certifications within the network engineering field such as CCNP (any track), JNCIP (any track)
- Certifications and/or significant exposure in other technical areas such as MCSE, CEH, security, UC
- Experience with cloud-based services (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)
- You will have experience in Engineering, Urban Drainage, Waste Water Networks, Hydraulics, Distribution Networks, Modelling (InfoWorks CS, RS
- Network level security
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a network consultant. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for network consultant
- Know, follow, and enforce company, department, and team standards and expectations for documentation, including maintenance and support documentation
- Design and implement mobile network infrastructures as well make improvement recommendations
- Provide assessment of requirements and definition involving client’s processes and network
- Support the creation of guidelines and strategies for network evolution/growth
- Evaluate and understand customers network in order to develop upon it and influence clients decisions
- Supporting, executing and managing deployment of complex mobile network implementation or systems for this context
- Work with Business requirements and processes
- Work in different telecom services across all eTOM areas (Fulfillment, Assurance and Operations Support& Readiness), involving Wireless in both telco customers segments (Corporate and Consumer)
- Conduct projects in Mobile Network contexto
- Lead and supervise teams
Qualifications for network consultant
- Taking the responsibility and taking care of the consequences of making a decision
- Using all data and information available to analyse and understand a situation, with the aim of supporting decisions
- Industrial accreditation
- Interpret Customer needs, assessing the full requirements, identifying solutions to standard and non-standard requirements
- Ability to explain difficult technical concepts to a variety of audiences
- Expertise on pre-sales activities, planning and implementations across a wider range of ICT Infrastructure elements (security, wan optimization, load balancing ) is an advantage
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Our company is growing rapidly and is looking for a network consultant. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for network consultant
- Works closely with Georgia Medicaid, contracting and provider services
- Network and geographical analysis
- Works closely with hospital, ancillary (including behavioral health and managed long term care) and professional providers (including behavioral health)
- Supporting quality initiatives such as Gaps in Care, HEDIS, QARR and “clinic day” arrangements
- Provide responsive and professional customer service to Medicaid providers
- Help providers navigate systems efficiently and accurately to verify eligibility and verification of benefits
- Liaise necessary demographic requests to ensure timely submission and update(s)
- This individual may be managing small to large *projects* on their own
- Project engineering for New York TriState area is primarily Cisco-focused
- Must possess excellent troubleshooting skills and be flexible with hours
Qualifications for network consultant
- Fundamental operational knowledge while maintaining ability to create and implement strategic plan
- Experience with Cisco and Arista Networks
- 3 or more years of experience as Linux systems administrator
- OpenStack/Neutron experience a plus
- Ability to quickly assess information and make rapid decisions
- Ability to lead organizational change and transformation