Job Title :
Principal Network Security Engineer - Network Load Balancing
Location : OH - Columbus
OH - Columbus
What you'll do :
The Principal Network Engineer is a hands-on functional expert that spearheads complex Initiatives around the design, implementation, configuration, and troubleshooting of network infrastructure and services.
They will guide a small team of engineers, influencing their contributions while working independently. Working closely with IT leadership and Enterprise Architecture, the Principal Network Engineer will deliver engineering roadmap activities, driving continuous improvement and maturity.
In addition, the Principal Network Engineer and team are responsible for defining, creating, and maintaining architecture diagrams, standard operating procedures, controls, and other support documentation for their functional areas.
They will participate in an on-call rotation and complete planned service-impacting activities outside of normal business hours in line with change management processes.
Some travel may be required.
What we are looking for :
Responsibilities :
- Team leads a small group of engineers, developing the engineering roadmap, defining workstreams, and delegating work as appropriate
- Plan, design, deploy and mature network infrastructure, services, and processes to meet business needs
- Deliver on-target KPIs for service availability, capacity, and performance management
- Provide escalation-level support to our incident, problem, and change management processes
- Collaborate with IT Governance during assessments and audits, providing evidence to support the control framework
- Procure and evaluate bleeding-edge technology solutions and present recommendations
- Lead complex engineering projects e.g., vendor-to-vendor migrations, mergers, and acquisitions
- Drive standardization, reduce needless complexity, challenge convention
- Create and maintain comprehensive documentation (HLDs / LLDs / SOPs / KBs)
- Ongoing proactive maintenance of network infrastructure & services
- Participation in business continuity and disaster recovery planning, testing, and maturity
- Participation in operational support 24x7 on-call rotation as required
- Other duties as assigned
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, Information Technology, or a closely related field, or equivalent experience
- Strong leadership, organization, and mentorship skills with demonstratable experience
- Professional-level certifications with Cisco, F5, Infoblox and / or other closely related technologies
- SME-level experience supporting the operation of mission-critical networks within finance, healthcare, or other highly regulated areas (HIPPA, PCI, SOX, CIS, NIST, ISO / IEC, etc.)
- SME-level experience participating in solution design and project delivery
- Strong understanding of networking fundamentals, OSI model, application flow analysis, IPv4 subnetting, IP routing, and switching protocols
- 10+ years overall IT engineering industry experience with evidence of ongoing personal development
- In-depth experience with F5 Big-IP Load Balancer technologies
- In-depth experience with enterprise DNS, DHCP, and IP address management
- In-depth experience with network routing and switching
- Experience with Cisco DNA Center
- Hands-on experience deploying virtual infrastructure within Microsoft Azure or AWS public clouds
- Scripting experience in Perl, Python, or PowerShell a plus
- Extensive experience operating within an ITIL ITSM organization with a background using ServiceNow
- Extensive experience with diagramming software such as Microsoft Visio and Lucidchart
- Experience using tools such as SolarWinds, Netbrain, LiveAction, ThousandEyes, AppDynamics, and Elasticsearch
- Excellent communication skills, directly interfacing IT leadership, business stakeholders and technical teams
Benefits you'll love :
We offer all the important things you'd want - like competitive salaries, an ownership stake in the company, medical and dental insurance, time off, a great 401k matching program, tuition assistance program, an employee volunteer program, and a wellness program.
In addition, you'll have the opportunity to bolster your business knowledge, learning the ins and outs of how successful companies operate and manage their finances, giving you invaluable hands-on experience to help grow your career!
About the company :
Western Alliance Bank is a wholly owned subsidiary of Western Alliance Bancorporation. Alliance Bank of Arizona, Alliance Association Bank, Bank of Nevada, Bridge Bank, First Independent Bank, and Torrey Pines Bank are divisions of Western Alliance Bank;
Member FDIC. AmeriHome Mortgage is a Western Alliance Bank company.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to equal employment and will consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, color, religion, age, nation origin, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or genetic information.
Western Alliance Bancorporation is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for individuals with disabilities.
If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to complete any part of the application process and / or need an alternative method of applying, please email HR redacted or call redacted .
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Western Alliance Bancorporation