Senior Network Engineer - St. Louis, United States - Insight Global

    Insight Global
    Insight Global St. Louis, United States

    3 weeks ago

    Insight Global background
    Description

    Must Haves:

    • CISCO ISE and DNA experience
    • Layer 2 and 3 Route/Switch Knowledge
    • 5+ years experience (with a degree) or 9+ years experience total

    Plusses:

    • Firewall Experience (ex. Checkpoint, SonicWall, CISCO)

    Day to day:

    Responsible for all aspects of planning, configuring, installing, and managing the Local Area Network (LAN), the Wide Area Network (WAN), Firewall, Internet Access, wireless, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Load Balancers, external communication services and/or external Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Assists other Network Services staff and system support personnel with problems related to connectivity. Provides additional support of Layer 1 and Layer 2 issues, cable management, install of racks and equipment and triage of network related issues. Mentors IT staff.

    Job Responsibilities and Requirements:

    • Exhibits and performs at a senior level to provide technical leadership to infrastructure projects, ongoing support and to perform technical complex problem determination/resolution.
    • Comprehensive knowledge concerning interoperability of security tools including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs). Performs expert level technical analysis and engineering for a multivendor based environment and recommend appropriate action based upon indications and activities seen with these devices.
    • Provides expert level technical support interfacing with technology vendor support and service providers. Subject matter expert on at least one advanced networking/security technology.
    • Subject matter expert of routing and switching protocols for IPv4 and IPv6 including OSPF, BGP, VRRP, Multicast/Unicast and Spanning tree.
    • Develops test plans that include functionality, system integrity, test matrixes, strategy, and definition of test methodologies. Creates test platforms, including evaluation of test equipment, and testing of proposed network equipment, network protocols and new production applications. Designs, tests, and deploys network and security architectures, including LAN-to-LAN, LAN-to-WAN, and WAN-to-WAN.
    • Comprehensive knowledge concerning interoperability of security tools including firewalls, intrusion prevention systems and Virtual Private Networks (VPNs).