Job Description

We are looking to hire a Network & Security Engineer (on-site & remote mix - Hybrid) in CA preferably. We are open to the part-time work as needed as well. This is a Contract-To-Hire position at our client.

Network & Security Engineer:

We’re looking for someone to assume this position with a limited transition and be ready to hit the ground running, must be a 100% hands-on tech enthusiast, and help IT Operations smoothly run Network Infrastructure for all locations of our client (by working closely with the Sr. Network Engineer). Participate in the re-architectural/re-engineering/network-refresh. Contribute to the IT Security Vision and participate in the rollouts. Bring ideas to the team to brainstorm, think out of the box and embrace a mature & fast-growing heterogeneous infrastructure. Building something from the ground up and challenging the status quo and helping with Next-Gen infrastructure, we’d like to hear from you.

 
Job Responsibilities:

• Planning, implementing, managing, monitoring, and upgrading security measures for the protection of the organization's data, systems, and networks.
• Troubleshooting security and network problems.
• Responding to all system and/or network security breaches.
• Operational support of data communications and security systems including design, architecting, deploying, troubleshooting, technical analysis, and problem-solving expertise to perform daily network management, security proactive monitoring, network defense, and network HA/contingency, network performance & stability.
• Proactively participate in problem management and root cause analysis and maintain 24x7 availability and monitoring of business-critical network & security infrastructure.
• Installing, Configuring, Deploying, Migrating, Troubleshooting and Managing:
• Network switching (Juniper JunOS primarily) , routing and security infrastructure on-premises & cloud (such as Azure / AWS).
• Plans, designs, deploy and optimizes fixed (LAN, WAN) and wireless network communications systems.
• Troubleshoot and support Firewall, VPN and IPSec Tunnels.
• Secure Wireless (WIFI Juniper MIST or any other) management in the environment of a multi-office location .
• Experience working in a Highly Demanding and Mission Critical 24x7 Network & Security Operations Environment.
• Troubleshooting skills in BGP/OSPF/Spanning Tree.
• Hands-on experience with IDS/IPS, HIDS. Experience with NAC.
• Experience with End Point Protection Systems (Symantec, Carbonblack, Cylance, CrowdStrike etc.)
• Able to assist and deploy and manage QoS in the video, voice, and data networks.
• Takes part in business continuity and disaster recovery planning and testing and system backup and recovery.
• Maintains the integrity of network security systems to ensure data is appropriately protected.
• Strong documentation and written communication skills.
• Sniffer and debug network and application problems.
• Participate in on-call schedule including maintenance windows.
• Proactively Provides Fanatical Customer Service with Problem Resolution.
• Ensures problem resolution by initiating and tracking problem assignments.
• Establishes strong working relationships with internal customers.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or equivalent work experience.
• 6 - 8+yrs of IT Security Operations Experience as a primary job function.
• As a Core Network Engineer 4+ yrs are required.
• Fundamental understanding & troubleshooting of TCP, UDP, IP, and IP addressing / subnet masking/design.
• Experience with network architecture design in mid to complex networks.
• Hands-on experience with Cloud Platforms such as (MS Azure Network Services Virtual Networks, Amazon AWS VPC/ELB, etc.) as well as SaaS/MSP/MSSP (Security as A Service) cloud, Next Gen Firewalls.
• Experience using WAN Optimizers, and Packet Shapers.
• Experience participating in optimizing monitoring and trending (open-source Linux based and 3rd party) Tools/Systems like Nagios, Zenoss, Zabbix, Cacti, Graphite, SolarWinds etc.
• Knowledge of routing protocols (e.g. OSPF, EIGRP, BGP) and their implementation is required.
• Knowledge of network security, including Firewall, VPN and IPSec Tunnels, etc. is a plus.
• Knowledge IAM/IDM (MFA “Multi-Factor Authentication”), OAUTH, OpenID, SAML 2.0, Federated Identity.
• Knowledge of SDN, NFV, DMVPN, MPLS, VxLANs, SD-WAN, IPv6 networks (Dual-Stack).
• Familiarity with Linux (Redhat, CentOS, Ubuntu) desired.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Outstanding organizational skills and the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.
• High degree of honesty and integrity.
• Team player, positive attitude, and flexible.
• Must be willing to take up challenges & creative in the dynamic startup culture environment.

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