Nelnet

IT Infrastructure Engineer - Network

Nelnet$79K — $127K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Science or related field or equivalent experience
  • 5-7 years of network and security experience
  • Cisco CCNA or equivalent experience preferred
  • Familiarity with NIST standards and controls
  • Intermediate knowledge of various networking technologies including Cisco and Palo Alto.

Responsibilities

  • Participate in project work and daily operational support as part of the Enterprise network team.
  • Provide general support across campus, data center, and WAN environments.
  • Troubleshoot connectivity requests and manage VPN tunnels as part of firewall support.
  • Carry out after-hours changes as necessary.
  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation for network support.
  • Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to gather requirements and design solutions.
  • Provide technical support and training to users with varying IT expertise.

Benefits

  • Medical, dental, and vision coverage
  • Generous earned time off
  • 401K and student loan repayment assistance
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Employee assistance and stock purchase programs
  • Tuition reimbursement opportunities
  • Performance-based incentive pay and robust wellness program.
Full Job Description
Provides daily ongoing deployment, configuration, support, administration, maintenance and technical solutions to various technology components that make up the IT Infrastructure environment.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • As a member of the Enterprise network team a candidate will be expected to participate in both project related work as well as day to day operational support.

  • Provide general support across multiple network environments, including campus, data center, and WAN.

  • Provide firewall support to include day to day troubleshooting of connectivity requests and VPN tunnels

  • Complete after hours changes as needed

  • Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

  • Willingness to work on site to support Campus network environments.

  • Work with multiple customers, stakeholders, and system owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze cost/benefits requirements, and recommend design solution options.

  • Provide training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT knowledge.

Compensation Range for this Role: $79,000-$127,000 CAD (based on experience)

This role has a hybrid work requirement of 2 days minimum in office per week.

Additionally, this position requires the successful completion of a Government of Canada Reliability Clearance (PERC) as a condition of employment. Candidates must be eligible to obtain and maintain the required clearance throughout their employment.

EDUCATION:

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Science or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Cisco CCNA or equivalent experience desired

EXPERIENCE:

This position is for someone with 5-7 years of network and security experience working a variety of network areas, to include the following disciplines: routing/switching, data center, wireless, security, VPN, collaboration, virtualization, disaster recovery/high availability, acceleration technologies, and cloud provider/services.

COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:
  • Strong analytical and problem solving skills.

  • Strong oral and written communication skills.

  • Ability to work well within a team

  • Ability to work well with technical and non-technical clients.

  • Familiar with NIST standards and controls.

  • Intermediate system and programming knowledge of:

  • Cisco ISR and ASR Routers

  • Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switches

  • Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto)

  • Campus Network Design

  • Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points

  • NAC/Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)

  • Network Load Balancing (F5)

  • SD Wan Technologies

  • Routing Protocols: BGP / OSPF / EIGRP

  • First Hop Redundancy Protocols: HSRP / VRRP / GLBP

  • VRF implementation and design

  • VSS and VPC technologies

  • MPLS WAN infrastructure

  • IPSEC VPN Tunnel design, implementation, and support

  • User VPN (Palo Alto Global Protect)

  • IPS, IDS, SSL Decryption, and URL Filtering

  • Enterprise QOS

  • IPv4 and IPv6 addressing

  • Scripting and Network Automation (Python, VBscript, Powershell)

  • Experience in maintaining network monitoring systems

  • Experience in taking and reading network packet captures

  • Familiarity with AWS infrastructure (VPC's, Security Groups, Direct Connect)

  • Familiarity with supporting multi-cloud environments (Azure, GPC, etc)

This position is for an existing vacancy within our organization.

Our benefits package includes medical, dental, vision, HSA and FSA, generous earned time off, 401K/student loan repayment, life insurance & AD&D insurance, employee assistance program, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, short- and long-term disability, and a robust wellness program. Click here to learn more about our benefits: Benefits & Perks - Nelnet Inc.


About Nelnet

Nelnet, Inc. provides educational services in loan servicing, payment processing, education planning, and asset management. The company is headquartered in Lincoln, Nebraska and has additional offices in Omaha, Nebraska; Aurora, Colorado; Tigard, Oregon; and Sacramento, California. Nelnet was founded in 1978 and is one of the largest student loan servicers in the United States. Nelnet also provides software and data management services for the education finance industry. The company has three primary business segments: Loan Systems and Servicing, Tuition Payment Processing, and Communications. Nelnet is publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol NNI.
Learn more about Nelnet
Size
7,988 employees
Market Cap
$3.3 billion
Industry
Net Income
$352.4 million
Founded
1977
5 Year Trend
+3%
Revenue
$1.4 billion
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