Job Description:
Network Engineer is a client-focused position with technical subject matter expertise that includes Local Area Networks, Wide Area Networks, Wireless LAN, Cloud Virtual Networking, Security, and Advanced Routing.
Primary Responsibilities: Network Infrastructure
- Perform network assessments including discovery, analysis, recommendations, and remediation for WAN, LAN, WLAN, Hybrid virtual networks
- Configure and implement switches, routers, load balancers, and firewalls
- Design network infrastructure to meet client objectives including but not limited to WAN, LAN, and Virtual Network
- Design, configure and implement wireless networks
- Hybrid cloud networking design and configuration (Azure / AWS / On-Premises)
Secondary Responsibilities: Security, Server, Storage, Cloud Configuration
- Experience analyzing network topologies, security architectures, security solutions, tools, and IT policies and standards to find gaps between in-place programs and industry best practice
- Analysis and harden devices per best practices and industry standards
- SAN specific storage network design and implementation (FCoE, iSCSI, FC, Storage Spaces, vSAN)
- Understand virtualized networking for VMware vSphere, NSX, and Microsoft Hyper-V virtual switching
- Cloud integration experience
Primary Vendor Technical Skill Sets Required
- Primary Firewall Vendors: Cisco / Meraki / Sonicwall / Barracuda / Others
- Primary Switching Vendors: Cisco / HPE / Brocade
- Primary Routing Vendors: Cisco / HPE
- Primary WLAN Vendors: Cisco / Meraki / Ruckus / HPE
- Primary Load Balancer Vendors: KEMP / Barracuda
The ideal candidate preferred experience:
- Experience 3 years+ servicing manufacturing, power generation or a similar industry
- Knowledge and experience providing OT (Operational Technology) security and support solutions for automation and control technologies and systems examples include Distributed Control Systems (DCS), Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs), SCADA systems.
- Ability to create confidence in environments where system discovery and gap analysis is required and may not be fully understood by clients. Provide solutions to these systems utilizing staged improvements to create insights, resilient and stable Operational Technology systems.
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills with first time engagements Projects, Industrial Control Systems, or problems tend to be unique, so critical thinking skills and the ability to communicate across multiple disciplines are essential.
- Ability to communicate complex IT/OT network systems and dataflows to stakeholders and provide analysis of risks, requirements, and responsibilities for deployment of new solutions or upgrades
- In depth knowledge of OSI Model and the ability to configure production systems at one or more layers. Application, Network, Session level maintaining least privilege and limiting end-user and production impacts this includes LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, and more.
- Understanding of unique protocols to Industrial Controls, Modbus, DNP3, others.