We are looking for a Sr Network Engineer for one of our direct clients in Plano, TX - onsite 3-4x week
Top skills required:
- Hands-On Routing & Switching – Cisco Network in (Datacentric (2000 servers))
- Software Defined Network Experience (SDN)
- Firewall – Checkpoint, FortiNet
- Hybrid – Cloud Expert-level, hands on experience
- CCNA must have, CCNP preferred
Duties and Responsibilities
- Grow from individual contributor to lead. We need lead network engineers to help us manage our globally distributed team in LA, Texas, North Carolina, India, and China
- Work with highly regulated healthcare and financial network services requiring next generation cyber security stack from Cisco, Checkpoint, and Fortinet to insurance network service confidentiality, integrity, and availability
- Work with regulated data in mainland China utlizing Aliyun cloud services
- Work with India financial data utilizing Google cloud services
Qualifications & Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems or a related field
- CCNP Route Switch/Data Center
- 5+ years of performing installation, maintenance, troubleshooting on a variety of network, LAN, WAN and wireless technologies, including but not limited to firewalls, routers, switches, wireless controllers, access points and end users
- Experience performing Core (L3) switch migrations
- Advanced working knowledge in BGP and OSPF with route redistribution and policy-based routing
- Firewall background experience in Cisco ASA, Fortinet and/or Check Point that includes: HA design/implementation, SSL-VPN, IPsec Ikev1-2, GRE tunneling, captive portal and endpoint protection, NAT
- Measure, evaluate, implement and review network performance improvement projects
- Use the best combination of Identity Services Engine (ISE) capabilities
- Deploy advanced network visibility and protection utilizing Stealthwatch to ensure error-free installation and integration into our network design
- Experience with Checkpoint CloudGuard, SandBlast, and next generation firewall features such as DLP, physical firewalls, Identity awareness, IPS, URL filtering, Antivirus, R80, and application control
- Experience with FortiGate Next-Generation firewalls, secure SD-WAN, IPS, Secure Web Gateway, management and analytics
