Job Summary:

This role will be responsible for project-based work focused on discovery, design, and implementation within various environments. Common technologies used will be switches/routers/wireless (mostly HPE and Cisco) including dynamic routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), firewalls (FortiGate, Palo Alto and Cisco ASA/FTD) and cloud (Azure and AWS) networking.

Job Duties:

• Responsibilities:
  • Remote administration and troubleshooting of switches, routers, and firewalls from multiple vendors. Routing protocols to include Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
  • Configuration, installation, and management of multiple network security systems to include next-gen UTM firewalls
  • Cloud networking including VNet provisioning, gateway/NSG integration and WAN/VNet peering.
  • Designs and implements wireless architectures including centralized management with local forwarding and authentication
  • Performs network assessments and wireless surveys
  • Monitors, diagnoses, and analyzes TCP/IP and associated protocols
  • Deploys edge gateways, such as IDS/IPS, email filtering and web content filtering
  • Deploys related technology including Microsoft Active Directory, virtualization, storage, backup, and security solutions
  • Triages and resolves escalations from within the infrastructure team within defined customer SLAs
  • Serves as the technical lead and subject matter expert on projects, overseeing the work of others and being accountable for the outcome of client projects
• Other duties as required

Supervisory Responsibilities:

• N/A

Qualifications, Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

Education:

• High School diploma or GED equivalent, required
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in Information Technology or Computer Science, preferred

Experience:

• Four (4) or more years of experience supporting and implementing network routers/switches/firewalls, required
• Four (4) or more years of supporting LAN technologies; DNS, DHCP, VLAN, SIP, QoS, spanning-tree, bandwidth profile policies, multi chassis switch stacking, link aggregation, etc., required
• Four (4) or more years of experience with WAN technologies/routing protocols; OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, RIP, VoIP, NAT, etc., required
• Experience working in a consulting environment, preferred

License(s)/Certification(s):

• CCNA, MCSE, MCITP certification, preferred

Technologies:

• One of the following, required:
• WAN / LAN technologies
• Routers, Switches, Firewalls

Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Intermediate to advanced knowledge of network protocols, configurations, and operations preferred
• Ability to troubleshoot technical Tier 2 and 3 escalation issues and identify solutions in a fast-paced environment
• Excellent communication skills, professionalism, positive attitude, and desire to learn

Keywords:Infrastructure, Cloud Networking, VNet, ISG, NOC, Network Engineer, Network Operations, Engineer, Tier 2, Tier Two, Tier 3, Tier Three, Remote Support, Escalation, Firewall, Router, Switch, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, CCNA, VLAN, STP, SSL, VTP, NAT, MPLS, VoIP