LRS is seeking an experienced Senior Level Cisco Consultant with the desire to join a high-caliber team of consultants who deliver exceptional services for our customers. LRS Consulting Services has over 30 years of consulting experience providing a variety of technology consulting to our customers alone and in partnership with others. (LRS) was named the 2005 Microsoft Advanced Infrastructure Worldwide Partner of the Year. LRS maintains partnerships with several industry leaders such as Microsoft (Gold Certified Partner), Cisco (Premier certified Partner), and IBM (Premier Partner).

LRS is successfully partnering with a company in St. Louis, MO on an exciting endeavor. This endeavor is providing the opportunity for employment for a Cisco consultant. This is a great opportunity to work with two great companies at the same time on a six month plus contract position!

The engineer would be a part of the engineering group and is expected to identify solutions to enable the business. The hands-on duties and day to day maintenance are performed by another group; the engineering group is more strategic and spends time researching solutions and then documenting how it is to be placed into their environment. This may include working out procedures in a lab environment, writing the support documentation or the implementation and maintenance plans and then handing off to the other teams.
The engineer in this role would be responsible for responding to business needs and providing a technical solution to enable them to move forward. This will include:
•Identifying business challenges and researching solutions
•Documenting associated risks
•Developing proposals and eventually designing a solution. These solutions may be on a variety of subjects which could include but not be limited to:

Expanding network capacity in a way that is flexible and robust.
Providing visibility into data flow and how applications are behaving so that network traffic can be optimized or server to server latency can be reduced.
Identifying critical path or dependencies within the network and work with the disaster recovery team to develop procedures to test.
Finding ways to more quickly on-board outsourced resources and remote access users in a secure fashion (i.e. how to provision users faster, ensuring the client’s intellectual property is secure, how to authenticate non-company assets accessing the client’s resources from the Internet, how to audit for compliance to company security policies, how to gain visibility and track what users are doing, how to move beyond being reactive in the client’s security and be more proactive while not standing in the way of a business that requires a highly collaborative environment.)


To apply, submit your resume to hropp@lrs.com. Visit us at www.LRS.com.

LRS is an equal opportunity employer.

Candidates must have all of the required skills to be considered:
•Experience architecting and designing Cisco Network Solutions
•Experience working with business units to identify business challenges as they relate to the network and providing solutions to those challenges
•Experience developing proposals, designing solutions based on proposals, documenting associated risks and testing solutions in a lab environment.
•Applied understanding of highly available core network infrastructures
•Experience working with solutions involving Cisco Network Security
•Experience developing solutions using Cisco Switches (preferably 6500 switches) and Cisco Routers which will include understanding the capabilities of Cisco Routers and Switches
•Understanding of DMZ, VPN and Remote Access design and strategy. Specifically mitigating
security concerns related to outsourced resources and partner connections.
•Should have a strong understanding of process, candidate should be able to follow process or improve or create new process where it does not exist or may be beneficial.
•Should have an understanding of BGP
•Should have an understanding virtualization and of the concepts of VM (ESX Servers) AND Virtual Desktops (VDI).
Experience with one or more of the following is desired but NOT required:
•Experience with or a willingness to learn Cisco Nexus 5K and 7K
•Understanding the capabilities of SSL-VPN (Juniper) and Checkpoint firewalls. (Not day to day configurations, but fundamental understanding of capabilities and occasionally acting as an escalation point.)
•Experiences working on solutions helping clients migrate from their multi-homed internet environment to their own AS would be beneficial.

This position is eligible for some LRS benefits.