Job Description
Job Description:
Pay Range $ 76.87hr - $82.87hr
- Next Generation (NextGEN) Network technology development and deploying solutions aligning with Client's vision and business goals are key functions of Client's Network Solutions team.
- As part of this team, we are looking for a self-motivated and innovative thinking individual to support Client's Network and Security technology development and deployment functions while maintaining relevance in the fast moving and evolving networking industry.
- As a member of the team, you will also be interacting with cross-functional team engineers, architects, internal and vendor partners to provide NextGEN network technology solutions to.
- Maximize the business value from Client's Information Technology and Solutions investments.
- Unleash innovation for our organization, employees, and customers.
- A member of the Connectivity Products team, design and implement scalable, efficient, & cost-effective network infrastructures & Software Defined Networking (SDN) ecosystem solutions.
- Continuous improvement of Network platform solutioning, specification & design, systems integration, platform lifecycle management.
- Ensure high levels of security, availability, and performance within the Client's network environment.
- Drive process improvements that integrate automation, improve efficiency, and improve service delivery.
- Establish and drive to maintain standards while building and improve upon documentation, policies, & procedures for Network Solutions Team.
- F5 Load Balancers.
- Palo Alto.
- Checkpoint.
- Zscaler.
- Cisco LAN.
- Aruba Wireless.
- Bachelors degree, or relevant work experience.
- Strong Layer 2/Layer 3 network architectural design and engineering background and experience (LAN and Firewall) in a large enterprise network environment.
- Five + years of relevant work experience.
- Security Engineering Define and build firewall rules for projects utilizing Algosec and following Cyber Security defined process.
- Design, implementation, and migration experience & knowledge with Palo Alto and Checkpoint Firewalls.
- Extranet and Client services.
- Support, maintain operation excellence and participate in the evolution of the Extranet Client, NLB infrastructure services in place.
- Enabler of IT service request by managing end to end its delivery (qualification, interaction with the requester, design, define the implementation).
- Provide L3 support for the service (both infrastructure and end user ticket escalation).
- Solid understanding of Extranet, DMZ concepts, exposure of corporate application & data to the internet/cloud.
- Good experience with extranet solution deployment and support with F5 technology (APM) with usage of advanced Access Policy and iRule.
- Good understanding and management of the F5 LTM modules is important as well, iControl and GTM are a plus.
- Strong background on usage and management of WAF concept needed with F5 Client expertise and cloud WAF (AWS, GCP).
- Familiarity and understanding of tunneling protocols (vxLAN, GRE, IPSec).
- Working knowledge of DNS, Tacacs, Radius, DHCP, NetFlow, Syslog, etc.
- Exposure to native cloud security solutions such Zscaler cloud Firewall, Illumio ASP, AVI Networks.
- Strong documentation skills in High Level Architecture & Design Solution.
- Vendor technical management experience.
- Technology leadership skills along with strong interpersonal skills.
- Travel may be required.
- It is a plus if:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related data communication technology discipline and certifications (Cisco, Aruba etc.).
- Extensive application performance and network operational troubleshooting along with network monitoring/analysis experience.
- Background working in Linux environments with Unix scripting and/or software development experience.
- Networking in cloud computing experience (AWS, GCP & Azure).
- Exposure to SCADALAN model is a plus.
- Configuration management of networking devices using automation tools and API scripting with C/C++, Python and/or Ansible a plus.
- Candidates must possess expert level knowledge with the following vendor technologies: F5 Load Balancers, Palo Alto Firewall, Checkpoint Firewalls, Working knowledge of Zscaler (ZIA and ZPA).
- Documentation skills around architecture and design would be beneficial as well as start vendor management skills.
- The Job will start fully onsite and hybrid might be considered later on in the assignment.