Network Engineer at Sonoma Consulting in Jersey City, NJ

Job Description

Role:

· This position will participate in the buildout, maintenance, documentation and overall health of the corporate network infrastructure.

· The primary responsibility of this individual is to install and support reliable, state of the market network and security solutions.

· This person will also be responsible for carrying out installation and maintenance of network software and hardware; including routers, switches, wireless infrastructure, firewall/VPN devices, monitoring and management systems and end user equipment.

· Will participate in network and security projects and develop and maintain detailed network installation and configuration documentation.

Responsibilities:

· Implement and maintain network infrastructure

· Provide third level network engineering support

· Escalate to third party support, ensure vendor compliance to service level agreements

· Research, recommend, test and implement network and security equipment

· Monitor system (network-centric) performance

Requirements:

· Strong technical and troubleshooting skills

· Solid understanding of local and wide area network concepts IP routing protocols and topologies (OSPF, BGP, MPLS) and switching technologies (VLANs, Span Tree)

· In-depth knowledge of Cisco equipment and operating systems, including configuration, installation, troubleshooting and support of routers, switches and wireless equipment

· Experience with WiFi networks, security measures and threat countermeasures a plus

· Strong knowledge and experience of firewalls across multiple vendors (Checkpoint, Cisco and Palo Alto)

· Strong knowledge and experience building and managing VPNs, remote access solutions and perimeter architecture solutions.

· Strong knowledge of reverse proxy solutions (Citrix Netscaler and Cisco AnyConnect)

· In-depth knowledge and experience with web content filtering solutions.

· In-depth experience with designing, implementing, upgrading and supporting security infrastructure.

· Advance knowledge of system security vulnerabilities and remediation techniques, including penetration testing.

· In-depth knowledge of Internet Technologies, DMZs, Cloud Web and perimeter security.

· Advanced knowledge of LAN and WAN protocols such as RIP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS

· Solid understanding of switching technologies (VLANs, Spanning-Tree, VPC, VSS)

· Lead in technical aspects of security compliance exercises (e.g. PCI, SOX) and collaborate regularly with internal audit, Information Security and cross functional teams

· Experience with Cisco enterprise grade products to include: Nexus 7000, 9000 & 2000, Cisco 6800, 4500, ISR G2, ASA, IPS/IDS,

· The ability to project manage short and long term security projects through complete project life cycle.

· Knowledge of local load-balancing and global load-balancing technologies.

· Extensive experience with Cisco Unified Wireless networking to include; 802.11a, b, g & n, LWAPP, CAPWAP, CiscoPrime, WLC and Client.

· Knowledge of applications transport protocols: (SSL/TLS, IPsec, DNS, DHCP, NTP, SSH, CIFS, LDAP, RADIUS & TACACS+, AAA, VoIP)

· Knowledge of Enterprise system monitoring and management tools such as, Solarwinds, Wireshark and OpNet

Additional Information

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