Network Administrator - Tryfacta, Inc.

Responsibilities for this position include, but are not limited to:

• Designs, builds, implements, and manages wired, wireless, WAN and cloud network systems across the many enterprise campuses hosting hundreds of users.
• Plans, develops, installs, configures, maintains, supports, and optimizes all local, data/voice, and wide area networks, connections, associated software, hardware, and communication links.
• Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyzes network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions to ensure optimal and redundant network performance.
• Develops processes around network procedures, ensuring industry best practices are followed and documented.
• Oversees network management, security, planning, traffic engineering and implementation. This includes firewalls upgrades and updates, VPN deployments, Disaster Recovery testing, etc.
• Assists in managing Managed Service Providers/Carriers and provide oversight for service level agreement adherence.
• Develops mitigation plans for technical issues and coordinates them with other departments and/or partner organizations to ensure network connectivity can quickly be recovered or redirected in the event of a major outage.
• Creates and maintains documentation including creation of physical and logical network topology diagrams, detailed port connectivity spreadsheets and assigned IP address (public and private) documentation.
• Prepares periodic maintenance plans and comply with change management procedures.
• Provides second level support to our customer base and interface with vendor support groups to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
• Candidate should be able to plan and organize multiple assignments to meet deadlines; communicate clearly both orally and in writing; work cooperatively and productively as a team member.

To be considered for this position, you should have: [ Skills, Education, or Experience]

• Experience: Next Gen Firewalls, specifically Palo Alto Firewalls: PA3020, PA3220, PA1410
• Palo Alto Global Protect VPN/tunneling configuration.
• Cisco switches: 2960, 3850, 9000 Catalyst series and Nexus 9300
• VMware (6.x, 7.x, 8.x) - Routing protocols and troubleshooting of OSPF, IGRP, BGP, EGP and EIGRP
• Disaster Recovery implementation
• Subnetting/Vlan spanning to multiple sites.
• DHCP and Radius setup
• PRTG monitoring and syslog

Education:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a computer related field.
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) or any similar certification is desired.
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is desired