Summary:

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for effectively installing, configuring, operating, monitoring, and maintaining network infrastructure. This individual researches, recommends, and implements processes and tools to continuously improve the network infrastructure. This individual ensures that network systems and related procedures adhere to organizational values and standards.

Individuals in this position are expected to support project efforts by performing technical analysis, design, build, test, and implementation tasks. This position works closely with network, systems, and security analysts, administrators, and engineers.

This individual has primary technical responsibility for the following environments:

• Datacenter and branch firewalls
• Datacenter core and branch access switches
• Client and site-to-site VPN connectivity
• Wireless access points
• Data circuits

Thisrole is designated as primarily remote. Reliable transportation is required, and the employee must be capable of responding onsite in the Dublin area within 1 hour for network emergencies.

Organizational Impact:

As the Senior Network Engineer, you play a critical role in ensuring the reliability and efficiency of our data network. Your responsibilities include provisioning, maintaining, and improving network infrastructure. Your expertise directly impacts the organization's ability to innovate and maintain operational excellence.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Recommend and follow technical standards for network device configuration
• Create and update network diagrams and documentation
• Proactively monitor network status/health and address issues as appropriate
• Perform network upgrades and patches as necessary to include firmware and operating systems
• Engage with vendors for license renewals and support cases
• Use expertise to support other team members with network troubleshooting and issue resolution
• Develop and maintain network security configurations
• Ensure network security standards and practices are implemented and maintained within the infrastructure environment
• Perform network segmentation testing
• Troubleshoot network performance issues to include packet capture and analysis
• Maintain and exercise a disaster recovery plan for network connectivity
• Individual is expected to be generally available 24 x 7 x 365 in case of emergency
• Additional job duties as assigned

Skills/Experience Required:

• Education: Bachelor's degree in technical discipline (Computer Science/Engineering, Information Technology, etc.) or equivalent experience
• Six to eight+ years of experience implementing, configuring, and maintaining network switches, firewalls, and wireless access points
• Advanced understanding of LAN/WAN principles and protocols to include dynamic routing (BGP/OSFP), policy-based routing, DNS, DHCP, IPSec, HSRP, and NAT
• Experience designing and implementing network security controls
• Highly attentive to detail
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Self-motivated individual who takes initiative and drives work forward with minimal direction
• Palo Alto Networks certification (PCNSA, PCNSE, or Next-Generation Firewall Engineer) strongly preferred
• Networking certification from Cisco, HPE (Aruba), or Juniper preferred
• Azure Network Engineer Associate and/or Azure Security Engineer Associate preferred
• Secondary expertise in one or more of the following is a plus: VMware (VVF/VCF), Windows Server, Microsoft 365, or Azure administration
• Experience working in a PCI, HIPAA, ISO 27001, and/or SOC 2 environment is a plus

Work Schedule: Employee will be required to work a minimum of forty (40) hours of per week or as many hours as it may take to perform above job duties. Schedule may vary based on business demands and will require a combination of normal business hours as well as work performed after hours and/or weekends at times.

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