Network Engineer - Firewall

27 Mar 2024

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Network Administrator III - Firewall

Location: Davie, FL

Salary: Up to $122,000 base

About We are seeking a Network Administrator – Level III – Firewall SME to provide high-level network engineering design, installation, and support expertise across the full lifecycle of the systems, services, and solutions. The primary focus of this position will be firewall, internet connectivity, and VPN but will also include LAN, WAN, SD-WAN – both on-prem and cloud-hosted. The position requires strong problem-solving, analytical, and communications skills as well as deep knowledge of the technologies used.

Opportunity The ideal candidate will work under the direction of the Director Global IT Infrastructure and with internal and external 3rd party vendors to understand and implement technical requirements. They will contribute to strategic plans and reviews and achieve network design and operational objectives by designing and engineering, evaluating, recommending, formulating, testing, and implementing plans for current and new technology. Additionally, they will maintain a healthy network by monitoring and evaluating network performance and issues, including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency to mitigate and prevent future issues.

Key Responsibilities
  • Work under the direction of the Director Global IT Infrastructure
  • Work with internal and external 3rd party vendors to understand and implement technical requirements
  • Document design, implementation and final configuration findings for both new and existing techniques and equipment
  • Provide support for incidents and end-user request for services
  • Resolve Network issues; complete audits; identify trends; determine system improvements; implement changes
  • Escalate problems to vendors and/or senior manager for resolution
  • Open up problem reporting tickets with OEM and vendor support and accurately use all problem tracking software systems
  • Contribute to strategic plans and reviews; prepare and complete action plans; design cost-effective networks which follow industry best practices
  • Achieve network design and operational objectives by designing and engineering, evaluating, recommending, formulating, testing and implementing plans for current and new technology
  • Maintain a healthy network by monitoring and evaluating network performance and issues, including availability, utilization, throughput, and latency to mitigate and prevent future issues
  • Responsible for the creation and maintenance of technical documentation and ensure it is updated and kept current
  • Ability to be on call and provide critical incident response 24 x7 x 365
  • Occasional night and weekend work
  • On-call rotation
  • Travel up to 20%

Key Criteria
  • Must possess strong working knowledge of design and implementation experience for data networking, routing and switching, subnetting and network segmentation in a large, multi-sites (100+) enterprise network with a keen focus around security, availability, resiliency, and performance.
  • Palo Alto networks
  • PanOS both physical and virtual (VMware, Azure, AWS…)
    • HA setup
    • “Cradle to Grave” support
  • Panorama, using advanced config and features such as:
    • Multi VSYS
    • Multi-Layer template structure / stacking
    • Device Group
    • Dynamic Objects / Tagging
    • IOT Device Profile/Structure
    • Plugin (Azure, VMware…)
  • Rule creation by Reverse engineering of traffic (Expedition, log export)
  • IPSEC and Global protect based VPN
  • Experience with the following is a plus:
  • Cisco Routers-Switches, Nexus (9000, 7000), Catalyst (9300, 9200, 3800, 2960, 1000

  • ID: #49559949
  • State: Florida Davie 33024 Davie USA
  • City: Davie
  • Salary: Up to $122,000
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2023-03-27
  • Deadline: 2023-05-14
  • Category: Et cetera