Network/Security Engineer
San Antonio, TX
Remote
6 months
Jobs Require U.S. Citizenship
The Network Engineer supports a disaster recovery and virtualization strategy engagement by assessing network infrastructure, connectivity, firewall architecture, segmentation, and recovery dependencies. This role documents current-state findings, identifies risks and gaps, and helps develop practical recommendations, DR playbook inputs, and roadmap actions. The role is focused on assessment and planning; it does not include production network changes or live failover execution unless separately approved.
Required Qualifications
• Bachelor''s degree in Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Network Engineering, or related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• 5-7 years of experience in network engineering, network security, firewall administration, infrastructure support, or similar enterprise technology roles.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPNs, routing, switching, WAN connectivity, IP addressing, segmentation, and troubleshooting.
• Experience supporting or assessing enterprise firewall platforms such as Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco, Check Point, or comparable technologies.
• Understanding of enterprise network architecture, including core/distribution/access layers, inter-site connectivity, resiliency, and failover design.
• Basic understanding of disaster recovery concepts such as RTO, RPO, dependency mapping, recovery sequencing, failover/failback, and DR testing.
• Ability to support assessments, stakeholder interviews, discovery sessions, data collection, and documentation reviews.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written communication, and collaboration skills.