Senior Network Engineer-PCNSE certified -FTE

Tribolatech - San Diego, CA

Full-time - Mid Level

San Diego, CA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for managing the entire networking environment, ensuring both new capabilities and day-to-day production support of the network. This role requires expertise in routing, switching, and firewall management, particularly with Palo Alto devices. The engineer will work closely with various teams to resolve issues, document network configurations, and ensure compliance with established standards.

Responsibilities

• Manage both new capabilities and the day-to-day, 24x7 production support of the network (core, distribution, wired & wireless access layers, WAN, and network security)
• Ensure the policies, standards, and standard operating procedures for how-to documents are developed and utilized
• Responsible for overall design, configuration, implementation and support of the local and wide area networks
• Assist in the design and development of network implementations
• Participate in disaster recovery planning, development, exercises and actual events
• Evaluate and test software changes and updates supplied by vendors, prior to installation
• Work with vendors, application developers, database administrators, corporate IT, and other technology groups to resolve any problems
• Conduct routine hardware and software audits of all supported systems to ensure compliance with established standards, policies, procedures, and requirements
• Document network deployment and maintain up-to-date network diagrams
• Troubleshoot and manage calls/tickets from the technical services group and assist with network administration
• Help provide technical direction to the company in the LAN/WAN environment and provide project management or assistance for network-related initiatives
• Provide analysis of network configuration and related documentation
• Monitor systems for network alerts and events so quick response can be provided and issues can be pro-actively addressed
• Plan, install, and setup physical and virtual servers to meet application, security, and regulatory requirements
• Document production systems for security, capacity, and usage
• Maintain existing servers and clients using available administration tools
• Monitor servers and their usage and capacity to minimize problems and outages
• Maintain the process involved in administration, maintenance, security, backup, and recovery
• Work to expand security knowledge of banking and work-group software and to maintain current in network, mainframe, client server, and internet/intranet platforms
• Review Cloud technologies for Infrastructure solution alternatives
• Ensure that deliverables are produced within the planned budget and time-frame
• Analysis, testing, documentation, implementation and support of global data technologies
• Participate in office relocations, expansions, and other infrastructure changes

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
• 5+ years of networking experience with Cisco L2/L3 equipment
• 3+ years' managing Cisco network proficient with Routing / Switching protocols
• 3+ years' experience with Palo Alto devices and Load balancers
• 2+ years experience with SolarWinds Orion
• Technical knowledge of AD and related services (DNS, DHCP, NPS, LDAP)
• Ability to work on assignments with minimal supervision

Nice-to-haves

• CCNP and/or CCNA