Network Engineer (contract)

About

KPMG LLP (“KPMG”) seeks a contractor in the United States to provide service to KPMG through one of our contracted employer/agency service providers. All applicants for any KPMG role are expected to act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold the firm’s respectful and courteous work environment. All applicants must be authorized to work in the U.S. without the need for employment-based visa sponsorship now or in the future. KPMG LLP will not sponsor applicants for U.S. work visa status for this opportunity (no sponsorship is available for H-1B, L-1, TN, O-1, E-3, H-1B1, F-1, J-1, OPT, CPT or any other employment-based visa).

Nothing herein shall be deemed to create an employer-employee relationship between contractor and KPMG, nor shall contractor be considered a representative or agent of KPMG.

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Responsibilities

• Experience with Cisco Nexus and IOS-XE platforms in a large enterprise environment
• Hands-on design, implementation, and operations of Cisco Nexus (3K/5K/7K/9K running NX-OS) in spine–leaf data centers and IOS-XE platforms (Catalyst 9000, ASR/ISR) in campus/edge at enterprise scale.
• Deep L2/L3 expertise including vPC, VDCs, STP/MST, HSRP/VRRP, OSPF/BGP, QoS, multicast, and modern data center fabrics such as VXLAN EVPN.
• Network automation and programmability using Ansible/Python and model-driven interfaces (NETCONF/RESTCONF, YANG), including CI/CD pipelines, pyATS/Genie testing, and configuration-as-code practices.
• Lifecycle and reliability management: image governance/golden builds, ZTP/PNP onboarding, upgrades and ISSU, change control, and designing for high availability and redundancy across data center and campus.
• Proactive monitoring and troubleshooting with SNMP/syslog/streaming telemetry, NetFlow, SPAN/ERSPAN, TACACS/RADIUS, and collaboration with Cisco TAC; implementation of security controls such as ACLs, 802.1X, DHCP snooping, CoPP, and MACsec.
• Certifications required: CCNP / CCIE
• Act with integrity, professionalism, and personal responsibility to uphold the firm’s respectful and courteous work environment.

Qualifications

• 6-9 years’ experience.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field
• Proven experience as a Network Engineer or in a similar role
• Strong knowledge of network protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, and VLANs
• Hands-on experience with network equipment and technologies, such as Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto
• Familiarity with network monitoring tools and network security best practices

Pay Rate Range

110 - 120 USD hourly