Senior Network Engineer

Insight Global • Alexandria, VA

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About The Position

The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the design, build, configuration, testing, deployment, and proactive support of the company's network hardware and interconnectivity infrastructure in both cloud and on-prem environments. This role requires a high degree of autonomy and involves providing guidance to Administrators and Support Specialists on escalated support issues, deployment, configuration changes, and maintenance. The engineer will collaborate with various teams to plan and execute projects, ensure security compliance, and align systems with IT strategies.

Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years experience working as a systems engineer or administrator
• Minimum of 4 years experience working as a network engineer or administrator
• Minimum of 5 years networking and security operations experience
• Cisco CCNP/CCDP, or Fortinet FCP, or equivalent required
• Certifications equivalent to the Cisco CCIE/CCDE, or Fortinet equivalent, desired
• Successful completion of Cisco or Fortinet, or its equivalent in routing, switching, and firewall management
• Bachelors Degree in a related field such as networking, cybersecurity, information technology, or computer science; equivalent combination of education experience may be considered
• Ability to participate as a technical lead on all projects requiring networking expertise and consultation
• Ability to design, secure and support multiple inter-connected networks, devices, and profiles
• Ability to deploy, integrate, configure, and maintain systems which comprise the overall networking technology stack
• Ability to communicate complex networking concepts in a clear and concise manner for laypersons unfamiliar with networking and/or IT concepts
• Proficiency to design, implement, and troubleshoot network security policies, VLANs, VoIP, Remote Access VPN, IPSec VPN, 802.1x, RADIUS, TACACS, AAA, TLS, SSL, multifactor authentication, password management and monitoring tools
• Expertise knowledge and skill to configure and troubleshoot routing protocols (IGP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS), network services (IPv6, IPv4, DHCP, DNS, IPAM, SNMP, PAT, NAT), SD-WAN, multi-casts and MPLS networks
• Skilled in deploying, managing and troubleshooting Cisco routers, Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco IOS Switches, Cisco Wireless, Cisco ISE, IDS/IPS, Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls, Fortinet FortiWeb Web Application Firewalls, and F5s
• Ability to design and implement high availability and redundant networks using QoS, CoS, NTP, HSRP, GLBP, LACP
• Strong foundational knowledge in IT technologies and concepts not limited to email security technologies, application security, cloud security (IaaS & PaaS, etc.), managed security services provisioning (MSSPs), DNS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.
• Good knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS, VMware ESXi, Docker, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Networking
• Knowledge of Change / Incident Management (ITIL, ITSM), Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall project management
• Knowledge of PowerShell/Python/JavaScript, MacOS, malware analysis, vulnerability management, WAF, CIS Benchmarks
• Ability to use DevOps, Git, Jira, Confluence, automating and ticketing (FreshService) tools

Nice To Haves

• Eagerness to develop, grow, and maintain strong inter-team relationships across the business to aid in the accomplishment of the PBS mission

Responsibilities

• Plan, design, build, deploy and support scalable networks, systems and security strategies
• Collaborate with Engineers, Administrators and Support Specialists to run, support, secure and monitor on-prem, cloud and remote networks
• Consult on multiple cross-functional networking projects and applications
• Ensure that information systems and assets are monitored to identify networking events and verify the effectiveness of protective measures
• Coordinate response activities with internal and external stakeholders
• Prevent expansion of networking events, mitigate effects, and resolve incidents
• Execute and maintain response processes and procedures for detected networking incidents
• Identify, review, evaluate and validate networking standards and communicate proposed solutions
• Support overall Networking and company mission with additional activities as necessary

Benefits

• Equal opportunity employer
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives
• Reasonable accommodations for disabilities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Industry: Administrative and Support Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree