Cisco Network Engineer II

About the role

Primary Talent Partners has a 12‑month contract opening for a Cisco Network Engineer II to join a national energy & utilities company. This hybrid role requires onsite work three days per week at one of the following locations: Charlotte NC, Raleigh NC, Cincinnati OH, St. Petersburg FL, or Plainfield IN. The position supports the implementation, modernization, and lifecycle management of critical network infrastructure across the Midwest region, focusing on Cisco enterprise routing, switching, SD‑WAN, wireless, and network security technologies for substations, corporate offices, and other business‑critical sites.

Responsibilities

• Configure, implement, test, and support Cisco routers, switches, wireless access points, and related network infrastructure using established architecture standards and templates.
• Deploy and support Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN solutions, including WAN edge routers, transport connectivity, segmentation, centralized policies, and application-aware routing.
• Support WAN modernization across SD-WAN, MPLS, private Ethernet, internet, cellular, and other public or private WAN services.
• Troubleshoot routing, switching, SD-WAN, wireless, WAN connectivity, firewall policy, and Layer 2/Layer 3 communication issues.
• Implement and validate network resiliency, segmentation, failover, quality of service, and high-availability capabilities.
• Prepare engineering job packages with equipment lists, installation instructions, implementation and test plans, rollback procedures, and supporting documentation.
• Create and maintain physical and logical network drawings, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, layouts, and power drawings using Microsoft Visio.
• Ensure monitoring, alarming, logging, asset records, and operational documentation are complete before solutions are placed into service.
• Coordinate, activate, test, and troubleshoot private and public WAN circuits.
• Monitor implementation work for compliance with engineering standards, cybersecurity requirements, applicable regulations,