Senior Network Engineer
Senior Network Engineer
Steneral Consulting
Plano, TX
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3 Interview process
1st Interview – 30 minute MS Teams
2nd Interview – 5 person panel MS Teams
3rd Final onsite interview In person either Dallas Texas or Richmond, VA
Must have Linkedin profile with picture
Need GC and DL with submission
Skills: Job is 30% Security of the Network, 70% Senior Network Engineer
Heavy Fortinet Firewall experience.
Must have experience with Fortinet Firewalls, Firewall Analysis, VPN, Cloud Security (Azure), VPN Security, Security Compliance, SAML, Radius, Cisco (Routers/Switches/ASA Firewalls), F5 Load Balancing, Scripting experience with either Python or Powershell or YAML.
Skills client is looking for
- Number of years as Senior Network Engineer
- Number of years of security of the network?
- Number of years with Cisco ASA Firewalls?
- Number of years of Fortigate Firewalls?
- Number of years with monitoring tools (Splunk or NetScout)?
- Number of years experience with Radius?
- Number of years experience with SAML?
- Number of years experience with VPN?
- Number of years’ experience in the planning, design, deployment, and support of LAN/WAN/ and IP architectures?
- Number of years of experience with Cisco Routers/Switches?
- Number of years’ experience with F5 load balancing?
- Number of years’ experience with Wireless Technologies?
The Day To Day
- Oversee the planning and execution of network projects, provide technical leadership to the team, and collaborate with cross-functional departments to meet business objectives.
- Design, implement, and manage complex network solutions to support business operations.
- Responsible for safeguarding an organization’s computer systems and networks from security breaches, cyber threats, and vulnerabilities.
- Lead network architecture planning, including hardware and software upgrades.
- Provide technical expertise in troubleshooting network issues and implementing solutions.
- Collaborate with IT teams to ensure network security measures are in place.
- Conduct regular network performance monitoring and optimization.
- Mentor and train junior network engineers to enhance team capabilities.
- Evaluate new technologies and make recommendations for network improvements.
- Develop and maintain network documentation for reference and compliance purposes.
- Proven experience as a Senior Network Engineer or similar role in a large-scale environment. Experience in the planning, design, deployment and support of LAN/WAN/ and IP architectures.
- In-depth knowledge of networking protocols, hardware, and software solutions including deploying network services and protocols such as TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, LAN Switching Technologies, Next-Gen Firewalls (Fortinet preferred), and Load Balancing (F5 preferred), etc.
- Extensive experience in traditional route/switch, Wireless technologies, VPN, SSL, DNS, DHCP, and ISE.
- Conduct network security assessments & recommend remediation actions. Hands-on experience with network security. Design and maintain security controls for network infrastructure. Enhance security monitoring and detection systems to identify abnormal behavior.
- Strong leadership skills with the ability to lead projects and teams effectively.
- Experience utilizing a public cloud solution (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Prior experience working with industry network tools: monitoring (Splunk, NetScout, Zabbix), management (Prime, ISE, Aruba Central), inventory management (Netbox, IPAM), and DNS solutions.
- Scripting experience with scripting languages (python, GO, PowerShell) and tools (versioning, GitHub) as well as experience utilizing REST APIs, JSON, and YAML.
- Experience with multiple hardware/software platforms such as:
- Cisco
- Fortinet
- F5
- NetScout
- Nutanix (or other hyper-converged technologies)
- VMWare and Acropolis Hypervisors
- Strong teamwork skills, ability to learn quickly, excellent written and spoken communication.
- Experience working with Agile methodologies.
- Monitor and Troubleshoot network performance and integrity. Resolve escalated issues by troubleshooting both cloud and local infrastructure.
- Automate tasks and assess their effectiveness.
- 4+ years of network architecture design and/or solution engineering
- 2+ years of network design or administration involving cloud infrastructure [AWS, Azure, Google, etc.]
- 2+ years of scripting or coding experience with one or more languages
- 8+ years of relevant IT experience in large/complex IT architecture environments
- 4-year degree in IT related course of study
- Preferred Professional certifications (e.g., CCNA, CCNP etc.).
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