HYBRID - Senior Network Engineer - Platinum Resource Group

Senior Network Engineer

Location; Newport Beach, CA or Omaha, NE (Hybrid)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Our client is investing in its global network and security to support its digital transformation journey. As such, we are searching for a Senior Network Engineer to join a small team to help transform their network and to protect their customers and brand. *Preferable location for this position is our Newport Beach office, but open to the person being in Omaha, NE location. This role will be hybrid, 3 days in office.

As a Senior Network Engineer, you will be required to design, implement, maintain, and support our client's growing network infrastructure. This person will also collaborate with corporate security team to design and build security controls to protect their environment. The successful candidate will have served in a similar role in a Fortune 500 environment and will have significant experience in supporting global networks. 

If you're experienced in building network security controls, you're a great fit for this role. Technical capabilities aside, if you're a mission-driven self-starter who's comfortable with ambiguity, and who thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative culture, you're a perfect fit for our client.

• Implement products, platforms, software, hardware, or appliance-based solutions related to network and network security.
• Solve unique or complex problems that have a broad impact on the business. Take a broad perspective to identify innovative solutions.
• Interface with management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements.
• Multi-site datacenter design, migrations and buildouts with disaster recovery planning and implementation.
• Multi-site WAN/MAN/SDWAN design, implementation and support.
• Design, implementation and support of cloud environment connected to the enterprise network (direct, VPN).
• Design and manage the rollout of various network infrastructures with necessary capacity planning, performance tuning, and configuration optimization.
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations.
• Maintain network security across the global enterprise; analyze networks for security threats. Monitor organization's networks for security breaches and investigates violations when they occur.
• Use network tools for administration, maintenance, automation, and visualization reporting.
• Develop technical documentation describing the deployment, configuration, and management of network infrastructure.
• Participate in IT security audits. Respond to existing audits and ensure required controls are implemented as required.
• Build strong relationships outside of IT to understand business needs. Communicate complex details in a way that people can understand. Advocate for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the products, empathizing with and understanding user needs.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 10+ years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS).
• BS / MS in Engineering and / or Computer Science or equivalent experience.
• Extensive Experience of Cisco ACI and buildout/migration of multi-site datacenters.
• Expert knowledge of AWS / Azure network solutions.
• Advanced technical skills and experience with the following L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as ACI, IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x. Be familiar with Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and NXOS.
• Understanding of various platforms – NetScaler, Riverbed, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus).
• Must have an understanding of open-source and other tools to assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
• Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, attention to detail.
• Preferred:
  • Cisco Datacenter certification.
  • AWS certified solutions architect certifications.
  • Knowledge of Juniper and HPE routing / switching equipment.

Platinum Resource Group is a professional level consulting firm, providing resources to Fortune 1000 client companies in the areas of technology, human resources, accounting, finance, business systems and supply chain, on a contract and interim basis. PRG has operations in Orange County, San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. As a W-2 employer we offer our consultants direct deposit bi-weekly payroll, health, dental, vision benefits, paid holidays, and referral bonuses.