Senior Network Security Engineer
About The Position
Provide technical expertise and direction in developing and supporting business and technology systems in the IBM Mainframe environment. Support complex enterprise architectures by developing, designing, configuring, and implementing detailed engineering strategies and solutions that meet or exceed capability, flexibility, scalability, performance, and reliability objectives for large projects across multiple technologies. Provide technical leadership to team, vendor, and contractor resources to ensure viable designs, flawless execution, and seamless transition into production. The role covers network design, architecture, management, and deployment across campus and data center networks, with responsibility for network performance, security monitoring, troubleshooting, capacity planning, automation, documentation, incident escalation, and lifecycle support. The position collaborates with IT disciplines and project teams, contributes to process and policy improvements, and develops specialized technical expertise by tracking industry and emerging technology trends.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- Minimum 7–10 years of network design and engineering experience.
- Strong analytical and customer service abilities.
- Ability to communicate and articulate technical information across various organizational levels.
- Strong thought leadership abilities and the ability to solve problems innovatively.
- Ability to coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Palo Alto and Cisco ASA firewalls.
- Experience with F5 Big-IP, LTM, GTM, and ASM.
- Knowledge of DDI, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, and NTP.
- Experience with Infoblox and Cloudflare.
- DDoS experience with Akamai, AWS, Azure, or Cloudflare.
- Cloud networking experience with AWS or Azure.
- Automation and scripting skills.
- Routing and switching experience.
- Network monitoring, NetFlow, and capacity management experience.
- Packet capture and analysis experience with Gigastor or Wireshark.
Responsibilities
- Independently perform highly complex assignments.
- Design, architect, manage, and deploy new and existing routing and switching within campus and data center networks.
- Lead the execution of network changes and updates in accordance with corporate security policies and business requirements.
- Monitor network performance and security, and troubleshoot network-related issues logically.
- Research, recommend, and establish innovative capacity-planning solutions that scale with business growth.
- Introduce automation for routine administrative tasks where possible.
- Collaborate with all Information Technology disciplines.
- Create, maintain, and update documentation with relevant information.
- Serve as an escalation resource during major incidents and outages as needed.
- Perform other special projects and duties as assigned.
- Diagnose problems, initiate resolutions, and provide ongoing lifecycle support for network deployments and upgrades.
- Collaborate with team members to align project scoping activities with architectural objectives.
- Contribute to continual refinement of processes, policies, and best practices to optimize technology performance and availability.
- Develop specialized knowledge and technical subject-matter expertise by keeping apprised of industry trends and emerging technologies and their potential business value.
- Provide technical leadership to team, vendor, and contractor resources.
- Coach and mentor experienced Network engineering staff.
Benefits
- Vacation time
- Sick time
- 401(k)
- Health insurance
- Dental insurance
- Life insurance
- Variable pay may be available in the form of bonus, commissions, and/or long-term incentives, depending on the role.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
