IT Network Engineer

RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, and support WAN, LAN, and WLAN.
- Design WAN, LAN, WLAN architecture.
- Configure, deploy, troubleshoot, Firewalls, IPSec, and VPN tunnels.
- Support Remote Offices and Jobsites for setup, connectivity, and teardown.
- Supports business and technical initiatives and projects.
- Review current and emerging technologies, recommending technology solutions to solve business needs.
- Assures technical development of other team members through sharing of knowledge and experience.
- Acts as technical project leader for small to medium size technical projects, creates project plan.
- Researches, provides input into recommendations and justifies various hardware and software purchases and participates in determining hardware, software and administrative standards and procedures.
- Participate in on call rotation.
- Resolves complex help desk tickets and network problems.
- Tracks and trends issues and drives resolution.
- Monitors and tunes network performance and monitors network availability.
- This position will report into Manager of Network and Infrastructure.

SKILLS:

QUALIFICATIONS

- Minimum of five to ten years of relevant experience and specific experience with configuring and deploying Juniper network Switches, Routers and VPN appliances including adding VLANs and routing protocols.
- Riverbed and WAN optimization, load balancers, Checkpoint Firewalls, QoS and VoIP.
- Other qualifications include ability to demonstrate a detailed knowledge of the network infrastructure and interrelationships between applications and the network and strong understanding and experience with troubleshooting tools such as protocol analyzers and bandwidth utilization reports.
- In addition, strong problem solving and analytical capabilities, excellent written and verbal communications skills and prior proven track record of the ability to communicate technical messages to technical and non-technical audiences are required.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security or related and Cisco CCNA certification required.