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 .
- 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.
Sounds like you? To apply, you need to be:
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.
Technical Skills & Competencies
- Hands on experience with the Palo Alto firewall management.
- Experience with Palo Alto, Cisco firewalls
- Cloud networking experience with AWS, Azure
- Capable of breaking down and resolving customer or network related issues
- WAN technology experience to manage and evolve company Internet, Cloud, and company connectivity services.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure, firewall and networking.
- Strong troubleshooting skills for Palo alto firewalls.
- Strong experience in implementing global network implementation.
- Experience in successfully deploying firewalls in a cloud environment.
- Experience in successfully deploying firewalls in traditional data center and edge.
- Experience in ITIL disciplines.
- Experience and ability to manage conflicts.
- Strong technical network ability in a diverse and large-scale enterprise environment.
- Strong decision making and operational skill.
- Proven track record of global network designs and implementations
- Have excellent problem-solving skills utilizing both internal and external resources to get the job done. Work through issues and challenges.
- Self-starter and motivator and ability to work in team and solo
