Manager - Network Security Engineer || Suitable AI

Job Description / Position Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain the network architecture for the enterprise with focus on transition to leveraging public clouds for mission critical workloads.
• Demonstrates excellent knowledge of Checkpoint, Cisco ASA & FortiGate Firewalls, F5’s, Silver peak, Arista, Juniper Pulse & switches, Meraki, Cisco (Nexus, catalyst, ACI ,WLC) and Network Protocol Analyzer Tools to troubleshoot and fix end user and network connectivity issues.
• Fully support, manage and enhance a Cisco VOIP infrastructure across multiple stores with over 600 endpoints.
• Maintains excellent knowledge of: EIGRP, Data Encryption, IGMP, TCP/IP, and UDP. ETHERNET, VoIP, UNIX, L2 THROUGH L4 PRINCIPLES, SNMP, Net Management and Diagnostic tools.
• Maintains strategic relationships with vendors and their technical support personnel; works with vendors to isolate and fix bugs in networking equipment and has a lead role with respect to financial responsibility through researching, evaluating, and recommending systems/network hardware and software.
• Monitoring network hardware bugs and vulnerability assessments
• Performs analysis of current designs, hardware and software for the core infrastructure and alerts management and team; proactively making the organization aware of needed modifications due to changes in technology or environment.
• Serve as primary lead in troubleshooting network related activities, liaison for level 2 support and escalation point for open vendor trouble tickets: working issue to the appropriate level of criticality.

Position Requirements:

• Experience in creating and implementing network architecture designs
• Experience with network designs that support on-premise and public cloud infrastructures
• Exhibits project management skills, tracking and reporting on projects with defined timelines and expected results and performs miscellaneous duties as assigned by supervisor.
• Demonstrates excellent interpersonal and communication skills both orally and verbally.
• Performs other duties as needed or assigned.
• Experience with public cloud network designs (Microsoft Azure preferred)
• Experience in Storage Area Network design and maintenance of the landscape.
• Maintain industry knowledge of building large data and voice networks.

Position Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in related discipline or equivalent work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience in Information Technology
• Minimum of 8 years’ experience working with complex, high available networks.
• Cisco Certification (current CCNA certification or greater) or equivalent