Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Manage all network and security systems across a large-scale enterprise while maintaining the availability and integrity of these systems.

• Assist with the network integration of multiple companies we acquired.
• Create regular reports; provide the necessary analytics to make technical and business decisions.
• Effectively manages multiple projects involving installations of infrastructure software and hardware.
• Ensures all issues regarding system or network automated alerts are logged, tracked, and resolved; manage alerts and events through and the enterprise trouble ticketing tool.
• Follow the change management process to production systems with regards to physical or system configuration updates
• Make process and systems improvement.
• Develops and maintains capacity planning analysis, recommendations, and procedures.
• Resolve operational issues through support tickets and alerts from the network and system monitoring tools.
• Stay current with new technology and tools.
• Ensure global switching and routing consistency and troubleshoot where necessary.
• Configure, manage, and administer routers, firewalls, switches, and other IP based communication equipment.
• Track and log all activity, both incidents and resolutions, to system users
• Coordinates with the other Information Technology team members to build a knowledge base.
• Work with cross-function organization teams to ensure the coordination of resources for technology projects and that all services have needed information regarding the implementation of technology

REQUIRED SKILLS:

• 5+ years as an enterprise Network Engineer w/Datacenter experience.
• 5+ years of Cisco Nexus 7k,9k, Catalyst routers and switches
• 5+ years of Fortinet Firewall experience. Forti Manager, Forti Analyzer
• Preferred - CCNE, CCNA, or CCNP
• Strong experience with BGP & OSPF protocols

PREFERRED SKILLS:

• SolarWinds.
• Fortinet
• Ruckus Wireless
• Cisco ISE
• SDWAN
• Site to Site VPN, IPsec, SSLVPN