Network Engineer
- Contract
Job Description
Role:
· This position will participate in the buildout, maintenance, documentation and overall health of the corporate network infrastructure.
· The primary responsibility of this individual is to install and support reliable, state of the market network and security solutions.
· This person will also be responsible for carrying out installation and maintenance of network software and hardware; including routers, switches, wireless infrastructure, firewall/VPN devices, monitoring and management systems and end user equipment.
· Will participate in network and security projects and develop and maintain detailed network installation and configuration documentation.
Responsibilities:
· Implement and maintain network infrastructure
· Provide third level network engineering support
· Escalate to third party support, ensure vendor compliance to service level agreements
· Research, recommend, test and implement network and security equipment
· Monitor system (network-centric) performance
Requirements:
· Strong technical and troubleshooting skills
· Solid understanding of local and wide area network concepts IP routing protocols and topologies (OSPF, BGP, MPLS) and switching technologies (VLANs, Span Tree)
· In-depth knowledge of Cisco equipment and operating systems, including configuration, installation, troubleshooting and support of routers, switches and wireless equipment
· Experience with WiFi networks, security measures and threat countermeasures a plus
· Strong knowledge and experience of firewalls across multiple vendors (Checkpoint, Cisco and Palo Alto)
· Strong knowledge and experience building and managing VPNs, remote access solutions and perimeter architecture solutions.
· Strong knowledge of reverse proxy solutions (Citrix Netscaler and Cisco AnyConnect)
· In-depth knowledge and experience with web content filtering solutions.
· In-depth experience with designing, implementing, upgrading and supporting security infrastructure.
· Advance knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing.
· In-depth knowledge of Internet Technologies, DMZs, Cloud Web and perimeter security.
· Advanced knowledge of LAN and WAN protocols such as RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS
· Solid understanding of switching technologies (VLANs, Spanning-Tree, VPC, VSS)
· Lead in technical aspects of security compliance exercises (e.g. PCI, SOX) and collaborate regularly with internal audit, Information Security and cross functional teams
· Experience with Cisco enterprise grade products to include: Nexus 7000, 9000 & 2000, Cisco 6800, 4500, ISR G2, ASA, IPS/IDS,
· The ability to project manage short and long term security projects through complete project life cycle.
· Knowledge of local load-balancing and global load-balancing technologies.
· Extensive experience with Cisco Unified Wireless networking to include; 802.11a, b, g & n, LWAPP, CAPWAP, CiscoPrime, WLC and Client.
· Knowledge of applications transport protocols: (SSL/TLS, IPsec, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, CIFS, LDAP, RADIUS & TACACS+, AAA, VoIP)
· Knowledge of Enterprise system monitoring and management tools such as, Solarwinds, Wireshark and OpNet
Additional Information
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