Network Engineer

Description

Key responsibilities include Provide overall enterprise level LAN, WLAN, and WAN IPbased infrastructure systems planning, operations and maintenance, and management.
Act as lead engineer for field SDWAN implementation and secure wireless improvement projects.
Manage infrastructures for operational networks of multiple security classification levels.
Serve as a technical point of contact for all matters related to network infrastructure efforts.
Perform analysis on networks to discover and document the baseline.
Support planning and execution of network installations and hardware upgrades.
Perform engineering trouble shooting/problem solving at the system and component levels.
Conduct LAN, WAN, and WLAN preventive and corrective maintenance and troubleshooting/problem resolution.
Perform enterprise traffic analysis (e.g., link utilization, flows, latency, and other relevant metrics) to detect/determine network inefficiencies and make recommendations to relieve network congestion/optimize the networks.
Monitor performance to identify and optimize the system infrastructure and conduct transaction monitoring for bandwidth utilization and application performance.
Address monitoring gaps and increase transparency.
Provide advanced technical analyses of network infrastructure challenges and problems; develop/identify technical solutions responsive to business needs.
Provide support for load balancer infrastructure (Citrix Netscaler, Cisco ACE)
Support an improved infrastructure information security vulnerability posture through the performance of vulnerability assessments and analyses.
Plan and coordinate maintenance activities with offshore team.
Ensure PCI network segmentation to meet auditing requirements
Qualifications Key desired skills and experience Bachelors Degree and 5+ years of experience; OR, High School equivalent and 10+ years of experience.
5+ years of Cisco router and switch networking experience
ASA Firewalls, ACE, Citrix Netscaler
Expertise in infrastructure design and architecture, deployment, operations and maintenance, and upgrades.
Solid working knowledge in the planning, design, integration, optimization, operations, security, and support of enterprise network infrastructures.
Experience managing infrastructure of midsize operational networks in a highpaced fluid environment.
Problem solving and troubleshooting skills at the system engineer level.
LAN (Ethernet, HSRP, EIGRP, BGP, etc.) and WAN (ISDN, ATM, etc.) troubleshooting/problem determination skills.
Working knowledge of Network analysis tools (CISCO Works, CISCO Network Analysis Modules, etc.), CISCO firewall/VPN equipment (Adaptive Security Appliance, etc.) and IP services (IP, Multicast, QOS, SNMP, etc.).
Ability to envision, develop, coordinate, prioritize, lead, and motivate individual and team efforts to produce required and timely customer solutions.
Solid overall communications skills.
Passion for the customer which is demonstrated through professionalism and striving for excellence in all aspects of the customer experience.
AWS Cloud experience is a plus. Direct Connect, Cloud Trail, Route53, VPC Security.
Current working knowledge of Linux/Unix based OS.
Knowledge of PCI standards and implementation design is a plus.
Current industry certification
Active CCNA certification is required.
CCNP certification desired.