A financial firm is looking for a Network Operations Manager – Director to join their team in Iselin, NJ.
Compensation: $170-240k
Responsibilities:
- Manage the operational stability of the Network and Datacenters within firm, including acting as an escalation point for issues.
- Ensure that the network is secure and built to best practices, in line with industry standards, such as CIS controls.
Qualifications:
- Team management experience, preferably a Network Operations function.
- Understanding of Financial management and Vendor management skills.
- Understanding of Network technologies and experience of working closely with Engineering teams.
- Ability to work with decision-makers to define business and systems requirements and recommend new technology in accordance with corporate policies.
- Understanding of working in a regulated environment and conversant with the adoption of good Governance, Risk and Compliance practices.
- Preferable for experience working in a regulated financial services / banking organization.
- Knowledge of cloud networking and cloud network security with experience demonstrated in extending on-premises networks to the cloud.
- Strong understanding of first and next generation firewalling with experience using multiple contexts and multiple tiers within a complex environment.
- Knowledge of Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) policies and deployment.
- Knowledge of Network Admission Control (NAC) and other network security appliances, such as RSA.
- Experience in using management center tooling for firewall rule deployment.
- Understanding and experience of deploying both spine and leaf switching fabrics and traditional switching methodologies.
- Knowledgeable in understanding routing methodologies and route manipulation with good understanding of BGP and OSPF along with policy-based routing and prefixes lists.
- Understanding of deploying and troubleshooting WiFi networks.
- Demonstrable knowledge of troubleshooting complex network issues including packet tracing, using CLI and Wireshark.
Skills/Knowledge:
- In-depth knowledge of design, implementation, troubleshooting, configuration and testing of the following:
- Routing – OSPF, BGP, knowledge of route redistribution and manipulation.
- WAN - MPLS, VRF, PfR, Internet and DIA, VPN, SDWAN, understanding of circuit provisioning.
- Datacenter – Spine and Leaf, using a Clos fabric, VxLAN and distribution switching.
- Encryption - IPsec VPN, MACSec and configuring site-to-site VPN on routers and firewalls.
- Switching and L3 - HSRP, VRRP, GBLP, NTP, STP, RSTP, QoS, CoS, SVI, VLAN's, ACL's.
- WiFi – Cloud based Wireless LAN solutions and centralised Wireless LAN controllers with distributed Lightweight Client.
- Firewalls – Familiar with multiple products from multiple vendors together with rule deployment via the management tooling and CLI.
- Cloud – Implementing connectivity to the cloud with Direct Connect, BGP, VPC, Transit Gateways, DX Gateways, NAT Gateways, Security Groups and AWS Firewall is required.
- Troubleshooting – provide effective troubleshooting methodologies using packet captures on firewalls, using the CLI, and Wireshark.
Education:
- Bachelor's degree educated or equivalent.
- Industry standard IT certification desired e.g., AWS / Cisco / Checkpoint / Fortinet.
