Description
Network Engineer
Skills: Cisco ASA, Juniper F5, Enterprise Network Support Experience, CCNA or CCNP preferred!
Summary:
As the Network Engineer, you will be responsible for supporting all network routing, Firewalls, Switches, load balancers, network architecture, network support, and network monitoring. The Network Engineer works with other members of the Network Services team to deliver high quality solutions to support hosted clients within the health insurance industry. The Network Engineer will work with multiple operating systems (Windows/Linux), multiple networking components (corporate and hosted production environments), and support products on each of these platforms. The right candidate will have hands-on experience configuring and troubleshooting Cisco ASA Firewalls, Juniper Firewalls, IPS devices, Cisco IOS/NXOS based devices, and Cisco Wireless devices in a mid-size or larger enterprise/data-center environment. F5, VMWare and/or SAN networking experience are not required but are a strong plus. The Network Engineer will be responsible for maintaining all corporate networking and security components; as well as, working with the COLO Hosting Vendor to support the Production Hosting environment. The Network Engineer will be located at the company's Atlanta corporate office location, and will be expected to support the architecture and best practices for operating a production hosting environment. The Network Engineer will report to the Manager of Network and Security Engineering Services.
Responsibilities:
- Provide Network and server support for employees and project teams
- Provide onsite and remote Network administration, setup, and configuration and maintenance
- Responsible for maintaining Network hardware architecture and inventory, including procurement and specifications
- Responsible for repairing Network devices, both internally and via vendor support
- Required for both on-hours and off-hours support
- Will manage Network images, security hardening of network devices, and perform remediation of discovered vulnerabilities
- Provide corporate networking and security support to internal users and to external client requests
- Performs necessary troubleshooting, diagnostic, research, evaluation and documentation of various WAN/LAN/VoIP and data communications issues and solutions
- Maintains existing systems with IOS versions, patches, service packs and updates on an on-going basis
- Monitors network system performance at both the hardware and software levels using industry best-practice monitoring software and utilities
- Responsible for the implementation, configuration, and on-going maintenance of the IPS devices and associated monitoring and alerting capabilities within the Hosted Production environments
- Coordinates with service providers in scheduling preventive maintenance, upgrades and repair and maintains records
- Ensures compliance to Industry standards for all systems administered for HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO 27002
- Ensures compliance with data security policies and procedures relative to all network systems ability to handle multiple voice and data projects and assignments at the same time
- Provides support for deployments to our hosting facility and for installed solutions in an on-call rotation schedule
- Will assume primary Network administrator responsibilities within the company's Atlanta office and for Hosted Production
- Responsible for creation of system images and quarterly updates using corporate-approved imaging tool
- Responsible for maintaining system images for Disaster Recovery as well as defining and testing Disaster Recovery procedures
Qualifications:
- 4+ years Cisco Router & switch configuration and troubleshooting experience
- 3+ years Cisco ASA Firewall configuration and troubleshooting experience
- 3+ years Cisco SSL & IPSEC VPN configuration and troubleshooting experience
- 3+ years with IDS and IPS appliances and software configuration, implementation, and troubleshooting experience
- 2+ years' network design and documentation experience (diagramming, Visio, etc.)
- Experience with ITIL best practices preferred
- Experience with HIPAA, PCI DSS, and ISO 27002 standards preferred
- Experience with Configuration Management systems preferred
- Experience with VMWare/VSphere operation preferred
- Must have customer facing skills and experience
- Hosting operations support/data center experience required
- Ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to both technical and non-technical personnel
- Ability to provide off-hours operational support as needed
- Ability to define troubleshooting procedures and processes to quickly determine the cause of any availability issue
- Must have very strong communication skills, both verbal and written
- Responds strongly and positively to challenging work and deadlines and is able to work in fast paced, dynamic and team oriented environment
Benefits:
As an Agile consultant, you'll gain many of the advantages and benefits of being a direct hire, while experiencing the flexibility of consulting. It's the best of both worlds! Our IT consultants enjoy a wide array of benefits including: medical, dental, 401K, life insurance, Employee Assistance Program and more.