Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain multi-protocol datacenter and backbone networks.
- Define and develop optimized network monitoring systems.
- Design and deploy new network architectures.
- Develop automated methods to mitigate and remediate network events.
- Analyze data to diagnose and identify root causes to network issues.
- Be an active participant in deep technical discussions.
- Develop and maintain consistency within the networking infrastructure.
- Working independently to solve multi-faceted problems.
Requirements:
- Responsible for working in a 24x7 Security & Network Operation Center environment and participating in on-call rotation and normal ticketing procedures.
- Will participate in a rotating primary/secondary on-call for the Security & Network Operations Center 24x7.
- Passionate, trustworthy, team-player, who is positive minded with a can-do attitude and exceptional follow-through.
- Articulate and experienced communicator with superb interpersonal, and documentation skills.
- The ideal candidate is a self-starter that can jump into a support/engineering ticket queue and work issues to resolution with little oversight, ensuring that changes made are appropriately documented for future reference.
- Networking – 8+ years of experience with expert level grasp of concepts as well as hands-on experience in networking and network technologies including Switches (L2), Routers / Routing (IP) / Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP) and Internet-based network operations.
- Network Security – 8+ years of experience with expert level grasp of concepts along with hands-on experience in security including, access and application control, threat management (vulnerabilities, malware, APTs, botnets), understanding of various security and risk models, site and content categorization and SSL encrypt/decrypt functions.
- Strong understanding of common network protocols (TCP/IP, GRE, IPSec, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRRP, STP, IPsec, SNMP protocols).
- Strong understanding of Fortinet products and ecosystem is preferred.
- Carrier / ISP Routing – Expert level experience in building and managing large-scale BGP environments with publicly routable Autonomous Systems, Route Arbitration, Peering, IRRs, etc.
- Linux - 5+ years of experience with a strong grasp of concepts as well as hands-on experience in the administration of common Linux distributions (CentOS, Ubuntu, etc.) and Applications (Web Servers, SQL Databases, LDAP, etc.)
- Docker/Kubernetes, Orchestration (Salt/Concourse) experience is a plus.
- Experience with Cloud providers (Google, AWS, Azure) is a plus.
- Experience with automation of network engineering tasks (Terraform/Ansible is a plus).
- Application Delivery – In-depth conceptual and hands-on understanding of availability technologies such as Load-Balancing, Denial-of-Service mitigation and prevention methodologies at-scale.
- Troubleshooting – Superb troubleshooting skills and root cause analysis capabilities.
- Procedures & Documentation – Capability to document well as well as follow policies and procedures in day-to-day operations of security and networks operations.
- Status reporting & presentations.
- Planning for long-range projects.
- Preferred certification levels: CCIE R&S, NSE7/8.
