Network Engineer

Role

Network Engineer

Location

Chicago, IL

Salary Range

$100,000 - $135,000/Year

Job Description

• The Network Engineer will collaborate with cross-functional teams to assist in designing solutions for International business units, partners and customers.
• The Network Engineer will build, deploy, and support the solutions in conjunction with other engineering and operations resources.

RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES

• Migrate branch sites from MPLS to Zscaler SD-WAN solution as part of global branch transformation project.
• Analyze business needs; gather requirements, designs, installs, troubleshoots, and supports technical solutions in a world-class infrastructure.
• Participate in regular meetings and conference calls with customers and IT staff to help qualify opportunities and technical solutions.

Must Have Technical/Functional Skills

• In depth knowledge and understanding of networking technologies, design principles, and the practical application of routers, switches, virtualization, storage, storage networking virtualization/zoning, load-balancers and network security.
• Knowledge of network security solutions such as firewalls, VPNs, Intrusion detection/prevention, and web application firewalls.
• 5+ years’ experience in network engineering. Experience with branch site WAN migrations is required with focus on Zscaler solutions.
• Strong technical knowledge and experience in several of the following (certification a plus):
• Zscaler SD-WAN ZTB solution
• Cisco Wireless
• Cisco Client
• Network automation using Cisco Catalyst Center or similar tools
• Network Monitoring tools such as Solarwinds and Thousand Eyes
• Cisco Routing/Switching, spine/leaf architecture
• QoS, prioritization of voice and video
• Palo Alto Networks firewalls and security solutions
• F5 LTM/GTM
• Proven understanding of network segmentation/isolation, encryption architectures
• Strong documentation skills and experience generating technical documents, diagrams, solutions specifications, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Excellent communications and customer service skills with proven ability to communicate professionally in a corporate environment.
• Experience in standardizing and automating network configuration and deployment
• Experience with software and hardware troubleshooting and system monitoring.
• Ability to work nights and weekends as needed for implementations and being a point of escalation

Skills

Network Engineer