Duties
- Implement products, platforms, software, hardware, or appliance-based solutions related to network and network security.
- Interface with management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements.
- Design and manage the rollout of various network infrastructures with necessary capacity planning, performance tuning, and configuration optimization
- Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations
- Maintain network security across the global enterprise; analyze networks for security threats. Monitor organization’s networks for security breaches and investigates violations when they occur.
- Use network tools for administration, maintenance, automation, and visualization reporting
- Develops technical documentation describing the deployment, configuration, and management of network infrastructure.
- Participates in IT security audits. Responds to existing audits and ensures required controls are implemented as required.
- Builds strong relationships outside of IT to understand business needs. Communicates complex details in a way that people can understand. Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the products, empathizing with and understanding user needs.
Qualifications
- Must have a minimum of 7 years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS)
- Candidate must have advanced technical skills and experience with the following L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x. Be familiar with Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and NXOS.
- Candidate must be familiar with various platforms – NetScaler, Riverbed, Palo Alto, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus, ASA/FTD). Cisco ACI is a plus, Knowledge of Juniper and HPE routing/switching equipment is a plus.
- Must have an understanding of open-source and other tools to assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
- Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, attention to detail
- One or more of the following certifications: Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCIE
- Flexible schedule, including the ability to work nights and weekends
- B.S/MS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience
