Chicago - Network Engineer
About The Position
The Network Engineer designs, maintains, and continuously improves Winston Taylor’s global network infrastructure to provide secure, highly available, and scalable connectivity across offices, data centers, cloud platforms, and remote access environments. The role supports enterprise data centers and Azure cloud compute, as well as Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls, switching, routing, VoIP, Microsoft Teams, SSL tunnels and VPN, wireless and wired connectivity, and Aruba SD-WAN. The position requires operational excellence, disciplined change management, strong troubleshooting skills, and a forward-looking approach to automation, resiliency, security, mobility, and global growth. The engineer works with the security team and follows the firm’s configuration, change management, and documentation standards. The role is hybrid, with the employee required to live within commuting distance of the local office and work onsite three to four days per week. Travel to firm business locations and work outside standard business hours may be required.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED with a CompTIA Network+ certification, or a bachelor’s degree in a computer science discipline.
- At least 3 years of information technology network experience, including configuration of LAN, WAN, and Internet Protocol technologies.
- Ability to work outside standard business hours and travel to firm business locations as required.
- Live within commuting distance of the local office and work onsite 3–4 days per week.
- Ability to lift 50 pounds.
- Solid understanding of the OSI and TCP/IP models.
- Ability to troubleshoot network system installation, configuration, performance, and maintenance issues.
- Strong knowledge and experience configuring and maintaining Cisco routers and switches, VoIP, QoS, wireless standards, DHCP, IPsec and VPN tunnels, data cabling, SD-WAN, network management tools, and high-availability, disaster-ready environments.
- Working knowledge of networking concepts, LAN/WAN/security design considerations, and interoperability with server and virtualization technologies.
- Understanding of micro-segmentation.
- Experience with Palo Alto firewalls and VPN solutions.
- Understanding of Zero Trust architectures and solutions.
- Experience coding in Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
Nice To Haves
- CCNA certification.
- Azure Administrator certification.
- Experience with network automation concepts.
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot network hardware, software, and connectivity services across the firm’s global environment.
- Perform network maintenance and system upgrades, patches, hot fixes, firmware updates, and security configurations.
- Monitor network performance, availability, capacity, and reliability, and proactively address issues that could affect service continuity.
- Improve the efficiency, automation, resiliency, and security of network services across on-premises infrastructure and Azure environments.
- Follow configuration, change management, and documentation standards to ensure changes are approved, communicated, successful, and supportable.
- Partner with the security team to select, implement, and maintain network security tools, policies, and procedures.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits providing coverage and support for full-time employees and their families.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits package.
- Yearly retirement contribution.
- May include an annual discretionary merit bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
