The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for the design, operation, maintenance, and security of FHN Financial’s networks including wide area networks and local area networks for data, voice, and video.
This position works closely with other IT staff to ensure a highly available and highly responsive systems environment for FHN Financial, an energetic and fast-paced leader in financial markets. The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for implementing and maintaining security standards to ensure compliance with established industry security procedures and standards as well as FHN Financial and First Horizon Procedures. This senior technical position will also provide mentoring and leadership for less experienced staff members.
The successful candidate will possess a working knowledge of current Cisco networking technology and current techniques for management of performance, security, and operations including anti-virus, spam, patch management, maintenance, and tracking. This position will also have a solid working knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls and VPN technologies.
Areas of additional responsibility:
- Network operations - responsible for high availability: implementing tools to monitor operations and ensure performance and high availability in a secure environment
- Troubleshoot network issues and restore systems to high availability status
- Develop, forecast, and manage network capacity requirements
- Manage physical installations of network equipment as needed
- Maintaining high levels of security in compliance with FHNF standards and First Horizon Procedures including the design, implementation and monitoring of network and security devices
- Security and compliance issues, reporting security issues to IT Management or Corporate Security as appropriate
- Firewall and intrusion detection / prevention systems design, implementation and maintenance
- Liaison with First Horizon IT Risk on network security matters including vulnerability scanning and external, penetration testing and enterprise security incidents affecting FHNF
- Design and manage the availability and security of remote access systems including virtual private network connectivity and LAN to LAN trade feed connections
- Design and manage the availability and security of the firm’s Internet Access
- Asset management
- Project management
- Participate in Business Continuity Planning and Disaster Recovery procedures
- Reports to management regularly regarding systems availability, operations & trends
- Additional responsibilities will be assigned as appropriate
In addition, this position will maintain awareness of industry and technical trends and will advise Management of opportunities to better serve the firm’s technical and business needs.
The successful candidate will thrive in closely-knit team environment with commitment to the organization and deliver excellence for the firm.
Qualifications:
- FHN Financial requires at least eight years of experience in IT with two years of principal responsibility for network design and administration in a high availability, corporate environment. Customer service attitude and excellent communication skills are expected. The candidate must enjoy working in a professional environment with high expectations of the IT staff.
- The successful candidate will have collateral experience in M365, MS Entra ID, and Cisco Iron Ports as well as the other disciplines mentioned above. The candidate must have a proven successful record of accomplishment in handling multiple projects and tasks simultaneously.
- B.S. in Computer Science or other qualifying discipline is preferred along with experience in a structured IT environment with direct participation in best practices, process documentation, change management, security standards, structured methodology, and project management.
About Us
First Horizon Corporation is a leading regional financial services company, dedicated to helping our clients, communities and associates unlock their full potential with capital and counsel. Headquartered in Memphis, TN, the banking subsidiary First Horizon Bank operates in 12 states across the southern U.S. The Company and its subsidiaries offer commercial, private banking, consumer, small business, wealth and trust management, retail brokerage, capital markets, fixed income, and mortgage banking services. First Horizon has been recognized as one of the nation's best employers by Fortune and Forbes magazines and a Top 10 Most Reputable U.S. Bank. More information is available at www.FirstHorizon.com.
Benefit Highlights
• Medical with wellness incentives, dental, and vision
• HSA with company match
• Maternity and parental leave
• Tuition reimbursement
• Mentor program
• 401(k) with 6% match
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Skills Required
- Minimum eight years of experience in IT with two years of principal responsibility for network design and administration in a high availability corporate environment
- Working knowledge of current Cisco networking technology
- Working knowledge of Palo Alto firewalls and VPN technologies
- Working knowledge of anti-virus, spam, patch management, maintenance and tracking
- Experience with firewall and intrusion detection/prevention systems design, implementation and maintenance
- Ability to troubleshoot network issues and restore systems to high availability
- Design and manage availability and security of remote access systems including VPN and LAN-to-LAN connections
- Experience with vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, and incident reporting/liaison with IT Risk or Corporate Security
- Customer service attitude and excellent communication skills
- Collateral experience in M365, MS Entra ID, and Cisco IronPort
- B.S. in Computer Science or related discipline
- Experience in structured IT environment with best practices, process documentation, change management, security standards, and project management
- Mentoring and leadership for less experienced staff members
What We Do
Few financial firms can boast a history dating back to 1864. Yet for over 155 years, FHN Financial has been dedicated to helping our customers achieve their fixed income goals. Whether you want to buy or sell securities, need help managing your balance sheet, or seek to limit interest rate risk, we can deliver the appropriate products and services, precisely tailored to your needs. We’re confident you won’t find a more responsive, customer-focused fixed income shop anywhere. FHN Financial is an industry leader in fixed income sales, trading, and strategies for institutional customers in the US and abroad. We also provide investment services and balance sheet management solutions. With an average daily trading volume of $7+ billion, FHN Financial customers include approximately 50% of all US banks.
