Network Engineer / Network Security Consultant

Required Qualifications and Experience:

•       Minimum 8+ years of overall experience working in a Network / Telecommunications role, with expert level experience with Routing and Switching , Firewall Management, Proxy Management, IDS/IPS Management, NAC Management, SD-WAN, VPN, Firewalls, etc technologies

•       Experience with technologies FortiGate Firewall, FortiManager, FortiSwitch and Fortinet SD-WAN is must.

•       Advanced Knowledge or Certifcations in Fortinet (Fortiswitch, Fortianalyer, Fortimanager)

•       Advanced Knowledge of Enterprise class Cisco network switches and routers (92xx,39xx,29xx,69xx, 2960, Nexus)   switches seriees

•       Advanced knowledge of Cisco IOS

•       Advanced knowledge of ASA and FTD Firewalls, FMC.

•       Experience with SDWAN technologies is must.     

•       Expertise in Zscaler-ZIA/ZPA.    

•       Experience with technologies such as: Cisco VPN, Any connect, Aruba GNAC & ClearPass

•       Extensive support of Routing Protocols/Technologies such BGP,OSPF, Logical Overlay, IOS-XR, MPLS VPN, Multicast.               

•       Advanced Knowledge of Layer 2 and 3 switching including STP, ARP, 802.1x VLANs, VTP, HSRP

•       Advanced knowledge of Firewall and remote access solutions including Access-lists, NAT, SSL and IPSEC VPN, Site-to-Site and tunnels, Client-to-Site, and RSA.

•       AWS/Azure cloud exposure.

•       Understanding of IP Multicast architectures and related services.

•       Strong understanding of application communication methodologies.

•       Ability to perform TCP/IP Network traces/packet captures with solid experience interpreting results.

•       High level of confidence and competence communicating on bridges.

•       Solid background in vendor management to drive incident resolution.

•       Experience with monitoring tools and strategies

•       Execute and analyze packet captures using Wire shark and other related technologies.

•       Perform or participate in complex maintenance or deployment activities.

•       Create or modify documentation in response to new events and learning.

•       Excellent customer focus and engagement skills 

•       Ability to develop solutions within a complex operational environment 

Key responsibilities include:

•       Assist Network Engineering group in adhering to process and procedures laid out by management.

•       Assist team in documentation, review and enhance network topology and performance.

•       Share team responsibility for capacity and availability planning and reporting on a monthly, quarterly, and yearly basis.

•       Serves as subject matter expert and mentor to other Network Engineers.

•       Must be capable of requirements analysis and preparing designs and plans for network systems, expansions, and upgrades to provide connectivity as needs arise.

•       Design, configuration, and deployment of new network environment services and enhancements to include routing, switching, firewall, and load balancing solutions

•       Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing such as routers, firewalls, switches.

•       Ensure compliance with network engineering standards and processes across multiple data centers and remote sites

•       Plan and document new deployments and the associated network infrastructure changes

•       Infrastructure device upgrades or replacements

•       Investigate, troubleshoot, isolate, and document problems

•       Understand network risk assessment process and contingency planning

•       Research, analyze and implement software patches or hardware changes

•       Independently own the Security Infrastructure support solving complex issues and suggest design modifications as appropriate.

o    Ensure SLAs are met - Responsible for performance analysis, proactive troubleshooting and capacity planning for the Security platforms.

o    Perform monitoring and maintenance of overall environment working with experienced team members.

o    Perform change controls. Update process documentation and team portals

o    Participate in troubleshooting, capacity planning and analysis, performance analysis & Root Cause Analysis.

o    Communicate with peers and managers regarding system issues & participate in 24x7 on-call.

o    Automate operational tasks to make processes simpler and more robust.

o    Ability to handle multiple complex tasks in a dynamic environment, with tight deadlines concurrently.

•       Refresh heat-maps and operations plans for campus network Security connectivity

•       Monitor and analyze statistical data to develop improvement plans for network Security and application performance 

•       Provide an effective network Security capacity plan

•       Develop and monitor global weekly and monthly trending reports by business sectors to justify future growth 

Additional Responsibilities Include:

•       Oversees and directs all aspects of the 24/7/365 mission critical network/telecommunication infrastructure operations; including planning, supporting, and maintaining functions

•       Serves as the senior-level escalation point for network operations to resolve critical incidents 

•       Maintains policy and procedures manual, conducts monthly service review meetings with key stakeholders.

•       Provides leadership, management, direction, and technical oversight for the network Security operations department procedure manual and processes used by the team

Brownie Points

1.     Working experience in any public ( Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Oracle , Aws or others) or hybrid cloud

2.     Experience on Cloud native or third party firewalls on cloud

3.     Azure or AWS networking ( NSG, UDR,  VPC , VNET, Route63 and others)

Key skills: ZScalar, Cisco, Fortinet, and AWS

Hybrid mode( 2 days)