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Senior Engineer - Network Operations

  • Location: Fort Worth, 76155
  • Salary: $46.67 - $56.67 / hour
  • Job Type:Contract to Hire

Posted 2 months ago

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long term contract engagements.

Position: Senior Engineer - Network Operations
Location: Fort Worth, TX
Term: 10 months

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

  • Be part of the NOC Network Operations Center, providing troubleshooting support for complex hosting and enterprise network environments, participating in rotational on-call support.
  • In addition, this position will help to design, implement, and troubleshoot network security systems, application systems, and resolve routing/switching or other networking issues as they arise.
  • Evaluating environments and their underlying transport security controls to ensure customer adherence to client Network Security standards and policies.
  • Addressing incoming firewall, ACL, and VPN requests and provide customer troubleshooting and support as required.
  • Turning up VPN and configuration changes.
  • This position will balance time working with Network Engineering, Network Architecture, Network Operations, Project Leads and vendors.
  • As a part of the IT Infrastructure team, this position will work in conjunction with other IT Infrastructure resources to manage and maintain the organizations networking infrastructure.
  • Produce and update technical documentation and diagrams supporting Engineering and Operations teams as part of project deliverables.

Minimum Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
  • 3 - 5 years of experience as a network infrastructure/Security engineer in a network operations role.
  • Experience troubleshooting Palo Alto/Cisco Firewalls and VPN.
  • Able to communicate with non-technical customers to identify and troubleshoot issues.

Preferred Qualifications- Education & Prior Job Experience
  • 6+ years of experience as a network infrastructure/security engineer or administrator.
  • Palo Alto/Cisco Firewall, and Cisco/Meraki/SDWAN (Velo/Viptella) Networks.
  • Experience working in a large enterprise network environment in a network operations role.
  • In-depth knowledge of ospf/bgp routing protocols.

Skills
  • TCP/IP networks and full understanding of all layers of the OSI model.
  • Strong Hands-on experience and advance knowledge of network switching, and routing protocols like BGP/OSPF.
  • Strong experience working with platforms like Cisco IOS and/or Aruba OS.
  • General knowledge of Public Cloud Platforms like Azure, AWS and GCP.
  • Experience of working with Palo-Alto firewall to isolate issues.
  • Understanding of Web Proxy and PAC file configuration.
  • Hands On experience with SDWAN Technology (Velo/Viptella).
  • Experience of working with network monitoring tools (SNMP, NetFlow, Telemetry).
  • Understanding of Load-balancing concepts including on-prem and cloud LBs.
  • Experience of TCP/IP Packet analysis to help identify issues (tcp-dump/Wireshark).
  • Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously with a keen desire to learn and expand depth of knowledge.
  • Ability to thrive in a sense-of-urgency environment and leverage best practices.
  • Demonstrated initiative, flexibility, and ability to adapt to changing priorities and work environments.
  • Understands enterprise level change management processes to make network changes.

Preferred Licenses & Certifications
  • PCNSA, Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator
  • CCNA, Cisco Certified Network Associate
  • Cloud Certificates like Associates or expert

Candidates will be responsible for following the client's COVID-19 protocols. Please refer to your MATRIX representative for specifics.

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At MATRIX, we expertly match talented professionals with job opportunities to elevate careers. Since 1983, we have placed thousands of professionals at innovative clients across every industry ranging from small startups to Fortune 50 companies. It’s why we’re consistently in the top 25 of all U.S. IT staffing firms and why our consultants rate us well above the industry average, earning us ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing awards year after year. People come to us for a job, and stay with us because of our top-notch consultant care.

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