Cloud Network Engineer-2

Responsibilities

Implementation, Upgrades, Support & Troubleshooting

• Hands on experience with Cloud networking, Palo Alto firewalls in Azure & AWS cloud.
• Extensive experience implementing and maintaining firewalls and staying updated on any released security vulnerabilities and how they affect the network.
• Extensive experience performing on-going optimization of the network security devices to ensure adequate capacity, availability, and scalability.
• Experience implementing, troubleshooting, and documenting network security infrastructures and related systems.
• Expertise in modifying firewall rule sets, changing policies, whitelisting, content filtering, and troubleshooting issues by studying network traffic flows, locking down applications, and troubleshooting firewalls, routers, and switches.
• In-depth knowledge of layer 4-7 app aware firewalls.
• Experience establishing and modifying site-to-site VPNs.
• Ability to manage threat protection, URL blocking, IOC feeds, routers, and switches.
• Experience performing monthly firewall health checks.
• Periodically monitor firewall health, performance, and capacity.
• Experience in the Change Management process including creating new change requests, reviewing submitted change forms, peer reviewing submitted change requests, implementing firewall changes and peer reviewing firewall changes.
• Experience developing detailed build and test plans for implementing firewalls.
• Coordinate with IT teams to ensure standardized network configurations and practices.
• Proactively recommend and implement enhancements to improve network reliability, security, and performance

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• Collaborate with global IT teams to swiftly address and resolve network issues.
• Work closely with other IT teams, such as security, data centers, and application teams, to ensure network compatibility and optimization.
• Define common, reusable solutions for branch, data center and cloud firewall networking.
• Document firewall deployment, upgrades, and configuration standards
• Experience with network automation tools such as Ansible, scripting using Terraform, Python
• Wireless network design, support and troubleshooting.
• Understanding of TCP/IP Stack, AD, DNS, DHCP, Routing including BGP, OSPF, VXLAN
• Participate in disaster recovery development, exercises, and actual events.
• Resolve escalations for unique and complex technical problems that operational teams are unable to solve.
• Participate in incident management and problem resolution for network systems.
• Design and implement cloud network architectures using industry best practices.
• Deploy, configure, and manage networking services in the cloud, such as Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), Subnets, Gateways, Load Balancers, DNS, VPN, and Direct Connect.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network-related issues, including connectivity, performance, and security problems.
• Monitor and analyze network traffic to identify and address bottlenecks, potential vulnerabilities, and performance improvements.
• Collaborate with DevOps and security teams to ensure network operations align with compliance requirements and security standards.
• Provide network support to development teams during application deployments and migrations.
• Plan and execute network capacity and scalability strategies to accommodate future growth and expansion.
• Document network configurations, processes, and procedures for knowledge sharing and standardization.
• Stay up to date with the latest industry trends, technologies, and best practices in cloud networking.

Experience & Education

• Bachelors degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in network architecture or design, with a specific focus on global infrastructures.
• Strong understanding of Firewalls, WAN technologies, SD-WAN, network protocols, IP subnetting, VPNs, QoS, and other advanced networking concepts.
• Experience with cloud network architecture, such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.
• Expertise in network hardware including routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers from vendors like Cisco, Palo Alto and others.
• Experience in networking field at a large enterprise scale including WAN, LAN, data center and cloud environments.
• Ability to participate in on-call rotation for 24x7 support.
• Knowledge of network security best practices and integration.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a global team environment.
• 8+ years of technical hands-on networking support.