Network Engineer IV

Edward Jones • Saint Louis, MO

80d

About The Position

Join a financial services firm where your contributions are valued. Edward Jones is a Fortune 500 company where people come first. With over 9 million clients and 20,000 financial advisors across the U.S. and Canada, we're proud to be privately-owned, placing the focus on our clients rather than shareholder returns. Behind everything we do is our purpose: We partner for positive impact to improve the lives of our clients and colleagues, and together, better our communities and society. We are an innovative, flexible, and inclusive organization that attracts, develops, and inspires performance excellence and a sense of belonging. People are at the center of our partnership. Edward Jones associates are seen, heard, respected, and supported. This is what we believe makes us the best place to start or build your career.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Information technology preferred, or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum 7 years of experience working with enterprise network solutions (firewalls, routing, switching, application load balancing, DDI).
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent collaboration and communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Ability to multi-task and participate in large, complex, and concurrent projects.
• Experience with BGP, OSPF, and TCP/IP technologies.
• Experience with Firewalls.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus platforms.
• Experience with f5 LTM and GTM platforms.
• Experience with investigating complex network related issues and bringing them to resolution.
• Experience with Agile, Kanban boards, and SCRUM methods preferred.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective relationships throughout the organization and with partners / vendors.
• Experience with Cloud IaaS with MS Azure.
• Experience with Azure NSGs and MS Firewalls.
• Experience with Python and Terraform.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with Infoblox preferred.
• Experience with Arista Systems preferred.
• Experience with VMware NSX and Advanced Load Balancer (Avi) preferred.
• Knowledge and experience in other areas of Information Technology (security, computing, operating systems, application infrastructure and development, etc.).
• Experience with IaC preferred.
• Experience with Fortinet Firewalls preferred.

Responsibilities

• Fulfill requests from Firm application and compute teams for network services such as load balancing, DNS/DHCP, and network port assignments.
• Perform hardware and software upgrades to ensure the reliability of Firm DDI systems, routers, switches, and load balancers.
• Respond quickly to network issues and outages, determine the root cause of the problem, and restore network functionality.
• Assist/advise customers with interfacing their systems to network services.
• Perform on-call duties 4-6 times per year where you'll respond to network outages 24 hours a day for seven consecutive days.

Benefits

• Medical and prescription drug coverage.
• Dental and vision insurance.
• Voluntary benefits (such as accident, hospital indemnity, and critical illness).
• Short- and long-term disability coverage.
• Basic life and basic AD&D coverage provided at no cost to associates.
• 401k retirement plan.
• Tax-advantaged accounts: health savings account, and flexible spending account.
• Ten paid holidays.
• Fifteen days of vacation for new associates beginning on January 1 of each year.
• Sick time, personal days, and a paid day for volunteerism.
• Eligibility for bonuses and profit sharing.
• Employee Assistance Program.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Industry: Securities, Commodity Contracts, and Other Financial Investments and Related Activities
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree