Senior Cisco/Palo Alto Network Engineer

CBTS is currently seeking Senior Cisco / Palo Alto Network Engineer for a position located in Chicago, IL.

This position will design, implement, manage, and maintain company’s enterprise grade network infrastructure. The engineer must be well versed in advanced engineering and administration of multiprotocol devices, multilayer switches, network security devices and network management systems.

The job requires extensive hands-on experience with enterprise class networks coupled with little guidance. Invenergy network consists of Palo Alto, and Cisco networking devices.

WAN connectivity via IPSec, MPLS and / or Azure Infrastructure.

Experience in using monitoring and automation tools to ensure SLA (Service Level Agreements) are met in delivering network connectivity for an enterprise network.

Able to utilize sound basic network principles in design connectivity for low bandwidth sites. Comfortable with working with a change management board, and peers to deliver solutions to meet the enterprise’s network needs.

Responsibilities

• Manage network infrastructure consists of Palo Alto, Cisco, devices.
• Help improve LAN WAN, firewall security, and data center architecture for maximum performance, capacity, and scalability.
• Implement appropriate network management and monitoring systems achieving zero downtime.
• Install and configure firewalls, switches, wireless and other networking devices.
• Automate repetitive networking tasks and monitor their effectiveness.
• Implement network security measures per business requirements.
• Conducting network performance and integrity tests; generating reports.
• Help developing and implementing network disaster recovery plans.
• Timely resolve escalated network related support issues
• Develop and maintain complete technical documentation.
• Interact with business partners providing network engineering support.
• Ability to execute multiple projects, meeting hard deadlines.

Required

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field
• At least 5 years of networking experience in an enterprise networking environment
• Advanced working knowledge of Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches
• Exceptional hands-on experience with Palo Alto firewalls
• Considerable experience implementing WAN solutions such as DIA, MPLS, SD-WAN, etc.
• Experience with communication and routing protocols such an BGP
• Familiarity with network monitoring and analysis tools
• Hands-on experience with cloud solutions such as Azure and AWS
• Excellent time management skills

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