RE: Urgent Need: Load Balancing engineer/ Long term/ Charlotte, NC

Hello

 

I have a job of Network Firewall Engineer in Charlotte, NC. If you're looking for a good change and interested, kindly share a copy of your resume.

 

Title: Network Firewall Engineer

Location: Charlotte, NC

Duration: Long term contract

 

Position Summary

This position will be a senior member of the Spectrum Datacenter Firewall team. This team is responsible for the implementation, and operations, of firewalls across the entire Charter network. 

 

Charter utilizes Juniper SRX, Palo Alto, Checkpoint and Netscreen Firewalls

 

Essential Job Functions:

Responsibilities include:

• Advanced firewall change request fulfillment and troubleshooting.
• Troubleshooting and response to network incidents and problems including afterhours support via on call rotation.
• Working with our internal customers to gather complex network requirements to be used in creating highly reliable and scalable networking designs.
• Produce detailed design documents such as Visio diagrams, IP spreadsheets, device descriptions and narratives
• Provide Tier III support for the enterprise IT network
• Correlate detected network events to identify potential problems or root causes
• Assist application and system owners in troubleshooting problematic network dependent applications
• Participate in projects that involve existing network infrastructure as required
• Participate in a formal incident rapid response process for high priority incidents
• Collaborate with the team to insure that an incident's underlying problems are managed and resolved
• Implement network change in the context of incident resolution, problem management and service requests
• Be aware of and follow existing network management change procedures
• Provide training to team members on an as-needed basis
• Work outside of normal business hours when required (scheduled maintenance, outage response, last minute urgent requests)
• Assist with network documentation tasks

 

Essential Job Qualifications:

• 4+ years of progressive experience in networking and network security, including VoIP, advanced firewalling, VPN's, enterprise routing and switching
• 5+ years in firewall technologies, preferably Juniper and Palo Alto, but other products like Cisco, Checkpoint can be considered.
• 5+ years in enterprise network design, implementation, and operations
• 4+ years in BGP and OSPF
• Engineer level certifications equivalent to Juniper JNCIS/JNCIP or Palo Alto PCNSE preferred
• Senior level network documentation skills including master skills with MS Visio
• Ability to read, write and speak the English language to communicate with employees, customers, suppliers, in person, on the phone, and by written communications in a clear, straight-forward, and professional manner
• Expert level of familiarity in implementing and troubleshooting firewall technologies
• Professional level understanding of TCP and UDP including the ability to identify root cause of illusive problems through packet capture analysis.
• Professional level understanding of TCP and UDP including the ability to provide insightful analysis based on packet captures.
• Extensive experience implementing and troubleshooting highly available firewall clusters
• Expert understanding of IPsec VPNs as well as real world implementation and troubleshooting experience.
• Expert understanding of popular network communications protocols such as DNS, RPC, HTTP etcetera
• Expert understanding of Ethernet and the surrounding technology such as Spanning Tree Protocol (802.1w, 802.1d)
• Expert understanding of routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF as well as real world implementation and troubleshooting experience.
• Professional level understanding of MPLS networks and Layer3 VPNs 

Preferred Qualifications:

        

• Juniper and/or Palo Alto certifications preferred
• Experience with Service Now ticketing platform a plus

Education and Experience:

Bachelor's degree (B. A.) from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education and experience.

 

Travel Requirements:

Travel % 15

 

 

 

 

Raveena

Techinical Recuriter

Saxon Global

p: 972-996-5186 

a: 1320 Greenway Drive, Suite #660, Irving, TX

w: www.SaxonGlobal.com  e: raveena@saxonglobal.com