Payment Infrastructure, Network Engineer I

Overview
Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.
Overview
Shift4 (NYSE: FOUR) is boldly redefining commerce by simplifying complex payments
ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers
billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every
industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.
Responsibilities
The Network Engineer I will work with a team of network professionals to ensure the
continuous operations of the payments network infrastructure that supports many
merchants across several sites in a stable, secure and scalable fashion.
Location: This is an in office position 4x/week in Las Vegas.

• Manage the payments network infrastructure including network switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls and the management platforms for those systems.
• Keep the performance of the payments network optimal and secure, perform upgrades and patching, monitor relevant network thresholds, capacity and latency, adjust configurations to optimize traffic flow.
• Work with Enterprise Security to maintain regulatory compliance (PCI and SOX) with network infrastructure components through vulnerability remediation, upgrades, configuration hardening and recurring audits
• Manage and maintain secure datacenter and corporate office firewalls and wireless access points
• Work with Corporate IT to manage integrated network components including VPN tunnels and remote access, branch office switching and routing, VOIP service, providing assistance where needed
• Manage relationships with Internet service providers, review recurring billing/invoicing, new or change circuit proposals.
• Work with the systems engineers to build new infrastructure, troubleshoot systems
• Participates in compliance and security reviews and remediation, including internal and external audits
• Participates in on-call rotations to provide Network Engineering support
• Shares workloads of Network Engineers, including ticket request handling, to ensure standards are adhered to and service quality is maintained.
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed.

Qualifications: Network certifications with Cisco and/or Juniper Networks (CCNA, or equivalent preferred)
Certifications for the following are highly desired (in order of preference)

• Datacenter networking - Cisco Nexus and/or ACI, MDS Storage Fabric
• Enterprise Firewalls - Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, Fortinet
• Load balancers - A10, F5, Netscaler
• PBX - Avaya
• Network Access Control (NAC) - ForeScout or equivalent
• Virtual Networking - VMWare NSX
• WAN Acceleration is a plus (SilverPeak, Riverbed)
• Wireless - HPE or other business grade wireless

Preferred:

• Minimum of two completed years of higher education and/or trade school with a focus on IT, or two years of comparable work experience.
• At least one year of experience with enterprise/datacenter load balancers, enterprise firewalls, corporate WiFi and WAN optimization solutions
• Mid level understanding of Public Key Infrastructure, packet capture analysis, virtualization and server clustering, Identity and Access Management, network security encryption protocols (ciphers, transports, application layer)
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Network engineering experience in payments or banking industry and at least one supporting network infrastructure in PCI scope is a plus
• CompTIA A+, NET+, Security+, or equivalent experience

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state or local protected class.