Title: Senior Network Engineer

Location:  Remote

Duration: 6 months Contract to hire

Rate: $55/hr on W2 with Infolob

Acceptable work authorizations: US Citizen & Green Card

Description:

We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to provide technical leadership in design and deployment of a Network Transformation solutions according to customers’ business, security policy and application requirements. Job Responsibilities: Participate in daily network, firewall, and F5 operational support for large banking customer. Ability to troubleshoot network issues and failures and follow best practices and troubleshooting methodology to quickly assess current situations and find solutions and implement changes to correct and/or update network topologies to ensure stability and functionality. Provide technical analysis of operational issues and remediations during troubleshooting efforts to ensure documentations and procedures are followed and updated during active events. This includes the ability to report to management. Stay up to date on emerging technologies and products, including attaining certifications and participation in industry events as appropriate.  Work with various stake holders to lead problem solving, evolve system roadmap and take critical decisions. Provide clear communication with regular update/reports to the management team. Job Requirements: Minimum of 7 years’ experience in, deployment and configuration and architectural design of networking technologies specific to routing, switching and general network security best practices, in which 3 years must be in customer-facing positions. Experience working for or with large financial organizations, service providers, and enterprises in a cloud hosting context is preferred. Extensive experience in large Data Center or Enterprise/campus designs, architecture, deployment and configuration with physical and virtual appliances. Familiarity with applications driving modern infrastructure design in private and public cloud. Experience in networking technologies such as STP, Nexus vPC, IPSEC / SSLVPN, Routing: VRF, MPLS, OSPF, BGP and Multi-Homed environments. Datacenter Network services including Security, Load Balancing, DNS, etc. at the virtual and physical level. Extensive experience with Cisco, Fortinet, HP, and Aruba products (Firewall, Routing / switching, wireless and security). IPS/IDS, as well as other NGFW (Next Gen Firewall) features and capabilities. Ability to write incident and problem record documentation to support daily efforts. Strong analytical thinking and decision-making skills. Highly organized. Strong ability to influence others and build consensus via excellent verbal and written communication skills. Minimum of CCNP or comparable level of knowledge. B.S./B.A./M.S. degree or equivalent technical training. Preferred Skills/Experience: Experience with Aruba ClearPass, Aruba switches and wireless. Experience with Cisco Firepower Services and Palo Alto security services. Experience with F5 technologies including APM, LTM, GTM, VCMP, hardware and software versions. Understanding of encryption and SSL/TLS technologies and best practices. Knowledge of Azure and AWS