Network Engineer/Architect

About the position

Due to growth, we are adding a Network Engineer/Architect to our IT Infrastructure Services department. The Network Engineer/Architect ensures IT activities are aligned with business goals and strategies and the IT Vision, a collaborative partner delivering innovative ideas, solutions, and services to simplify people's lives. The Network Engineer/Architect will work with cross-functional teams to design, implement, manage and monitoring the overall network infrastructure of the company (Systems, Database, and storage). This will include making recommendations on changes in network configuration and hardware to improve delivery of service. Troubleshoot and resolve data center, wan, and wireless related issues. Developing processes and making recommendations on improving network and security tools to better understand and analyze data flows, identifying anomalies or issue within the network that effect performance or reliability.

Responsibilities

• Provide professional level network implementation skills for datacenter and enterprise environments
• Provide primary leadership in the design and implementation for WAN/MAN, Routing, Switching, Firewalls, Load Balancers, Wireless Access Controllers, Cisco Identity Service Engine (ISE), LAN, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, Latency, NAC, QoS, CAC, EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, Multicast, NHRP, IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, ACL, Spanning Tree, Cisco VPC, IGMP, HSRP, etc.
• Provide primary responsibility for DMVPN IPsec/VPN using Microsoft Certificate Authority including setting up and configuring the Microsoft CA Environment
• Provide primary responsibility for design and implementation of Point-to-Point VPN and Firewall deployment/configuration
• Procurement administration and Deployment of Palo Alto Technologies
• Experience with Cloud networking (Azure, AWS)
• Provide leadership in the configuration, management and monitoring of Cisco Sourcefire/Firepower IPS system
• Provide leadership in the configuration, management, and implementation of Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and network segmentation
• Provide leadership in the configuration, management and monitoring of Citrix NetScaler load balancers
• Provide leadership in the configuration, management of UCS
• Design network architecture, establishing configuration policies for the protection of computer systems and network equipment, working with technical management to effectively reflect business needs, service-levels, and availability requirements
• Installation and implementation of wired and wireless network as well as security products and technologies designed to manage firewall traffic, ensuring the security of inbound data traffic
• Responsible for establishing policies, procedures, standards, and guidelines for implementation, configuration, and monitoring of networking equipment and protocols
• Develop, review, and implement firewall policy rules and perform security risk assessments and approvals for network and system configuration changes
• Assist Information Security team response to suspected cyber security incidents, acting as Incident Response Leader when required
• Interface with Management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements. Perform technical and cost analysis as well as CAPEX development work to support network and security infrastructure needs.
• Assist in annual penetration testing, and security assessments in support of customer and compliance requirements, working with designated 3rd party vendors as required
• Ability to Travel to support existing and new office implementations
• On-Call rotation
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in Information Technology or in the field of Computer Science and/or a minimum of 7+ years of professional experience in IT network disciplines
• Candidate must possess, or be willing to pursue, applicable professional/technical certifications, such as CCNA, CCNP, CCIE or other relevant certifications
• 7+ years of professional experience in IT network disciplines required in lieu of degree
• Participate in, adhere to, and support compliance program objectives
• The ability to consistently interact cooperatively and respectfully with other employees

Benefits

• Hybrid: 3 days/week in our Appleton WI Office
• Top of the industry benefits for Health, Dental, and Vision insurance
• 20 days paid time off
• 4 weeks paid parental leave
• 9 paid holidays
• 401K company match of up to 5% - No vesting requirement
• Adoption Assistance Program
• Flexible Spending Account
• Educational Assistance Plan and Professional Membership assistance
• Referral Bonus Program - up to $750!