Network Infrastructure Engineer

• Day-to-day administration, monitoring, and maintenance related to routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, packet shapers, wireless systems, and circuits.
• Design, implement, and monitor network systems related to: Cisco network routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, WiFi systems, Circuits: WAN/MPLS, internet, replication, SIP, Network VPNs.
• Assure off-site disaster recovery environment is consistently available.
• Participate in disaster recovery testing as directed.
• Work with IT Security Team to select, implement, and maintain security-related systems and address related incidents/events.
• Conduct troubleshooting and repair tasks on network at a detailed level and by device.
• Identify and resolve recurring issues and mitigate reliability risks.
• Coordinate, plan, and/or execute multiple annual disaster recovery exercises.
• Adhere to established change management processes.
• Create and maintain operational procedures.
• Provide level 3 technical support and participate in team on-call rotation.
• Participate in capacity planning, ensuring that systems have the capacity to meet strategic business needs with few or no reliability issues.
• Work with 3rd-party vendors to procure hardware and software solutions, as well as addressing updates and issues after implementation.
• Provide assistance and mentoring to Network Infrastructure Administrators and other Network Infrastructure Engineers.
• Other duties may be assigned to meet ongoing business needs.

Requirements

• A minimum of five years of experience working in networking as an engineer or administrator
• Must have hands-on experience with Cisco routers and switches as well as Cisco ACI and Cisco AnyConnect
• Must have experience with F5 Load Balancers, VPNs
• Experience supporting security initiatives and implementing security best practices in networking, to include VPNs and Cisco Firewalls
• Ability to maintain various network systems hardware and software technologies
• Scripting and automation experience in PowerShell

• Experience in single data center network with disaster recovery site
• Windows Server, Linux, and Mac OS system administration
• Solarwinds for network monitoring
• Wireshark Sniffer/packet capture tools
• SSH and Telnet client and terminal emulator programs
• Governance, Risk and Compliance assessments, PCI compliance, and audits
• Contracts, implementations, terminations, and maintenance of circuits from various providers
• Disaster recovery