Senior Network Engineer

15 Oct 2024

Vacancy expired!

This position is focused on constantly improving the firm’s efficiency, resiliency, and security through technological advancements while maintaining compliance with firm policies and public standards, HIPAA, PII, ISO 27001 & 27017, and Zero Trust. The firm utilizes leading edge technologies from Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft, (Windows, Hyper-V, Azure, Office 365), Enterprise SOC, and major circuit providers. Our goal is to enable our attorneys access to ubiquitous computing, from industry leading devices, with a simple, secure, consistent experience that will enable productivity gains at an individual and business level.This is a lead role in our 3rd line IT Engineering Department, focused on the Enterprise Network, encompassing design and implementation of hardware, security, and the operations of network services. The primary focus will be maintaining uptime, performance, interoperability, and security certifications in our hybrid environment consisting of a colocated datacenter, Azure, and regional offices.This role requires a person with a diverse perspective and progressive technology skills, following trends to propose opportunities for efficiency, scalability, and risk mitigation. This role will evaluate and recommend the adoption of future advancements in technology. We expect this role to keep pace with the company’s expanding service portfolio and high standards, and it’s continued investment in leading edge analytics, services, security, and technology.

Principle Duties and Responsibilities1. Responsible for the entire network: firewalls, routers, switches, wireless - specification, risk management, with a highly available & secure design, and interoperability in a hybrid environment.2. Oversee applicable 3rd party vendors to system implementation, support, and operations.3. Maintain system monitoring, alerts, thresholds, and capacity management.4. Respond to network security events escalated by eSOC monitoring systems.5. Lifecycle management; keep software at supported levels, and migration from end of life platforms with minimal downtime.6. Monitor trends and use such data for proof of concepts to continually improve service and efficiency with automation and make recommendations.7. Create and maintain detailed documentation of the firm's technology, such as topologies, software and hardware inventories following the firm’s standards for ISO 27001, ISO 27017, and Change & Release Management.:8. Circuit diversity design, high availability, latency SLAs, and failover testing.9. Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex technical problems and performances issues effecting systems and applications.10. Advanced troubleshooting of escalated issues from Technical Support, Engineers, Network Administrators, by providing prompt response and solutions, including working with 3rd party vendors until resolution.11. Maintenance of systems off-hours, travel as the business requires, and be available for unscheduled emergency maintenance due to faulty hardware and/or software.12. Plan, direct and organize activities of the datacenter, technology rooms and its systems contained therein, such as design layout, racks, wiring, cooling, and power distribution.

Skills, Experience, Education and Other Job Related Requirements1. Required: Bachelor’s degree and/or 5 years of experience in a Network Engineering role of at least 200 nodes and 3 connected locations.2. Expertise with Fortinet & Cisco based networks from administration to advanced system configurations, FortiGate Next Gen Firewall, Fortinet SD-WAN, Cisco Nexus Switching, Fortinet Wireless.3. Experience with datacenters & technology rooms, racking and stacking, wiring, power,cooling.4. Experience with the following technologies:a. Interoperability of Fortinet/Cisco/Azure hybrid environments.b. Third party co-located datacenters.c. Network encryption standards.d. 3rd party network providers, Lumen, ATT, Verizon.e. Auditing and logging of network activities (SEIM).f. VPN, remote access, Multifactor authentication.g. Alerting platforms, such as Solarwinds and Nagios.h. Maintaining relevant design and operational documentation.5. Experience working within an environment with strong risk controls such as ISO 27001, NIST, or SOC2 standards.6. Relevant technical certifications a plus; strong understanding of industry leadingmanagement frameworks (ITIL, ISO).7. Interpersonal skills and Team oriented person who is communicative, organized, responsible, inquisitive, diligent, and a desire to deliver results with quality.8. A business case, security first, high availability mentality; willing to take risks to improve systems with appropriate leadership and change management approvals. 9. Ability to lead projects, work independently, meet deadlines and effectively complete designated job assignments.10. Attendance Requirements: 2-3 days/week in the office and on site as scheduled working hours require and available as necessary before or after normal working hours.11. Travel occasionally in order to meet the demands of the job and the needs of the firm as necessary.12. Expected to own a Mobile Device to insure availability, system monitoring and response, for communication during work hours and after hours emergencies.

  • ID: #46473481
  • State: New York New york city 10001 New york city USA
  • City: New york city
  • Salary: Depends on Experience
  • Job type: Permanent
  • Showed: 2022-10-15
  • Deadline: 2022-11-24
  • Category: Et cetera