Network Engineer III

The will work with a team of network professionals to ensure the continuous operations of the corporate network infrastructure that supports many users across several sites in a stable, secure and scalable fashion. 

• Manage the corporate network infrastructure including network switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls and the management platforms for those systems.
• Keep the performance of the corporate network optimal and secure, perform upgrades and patching, monitor relevant network thresholds, capacity and latency, adjust configurations to optimize traffic flow.
• Work with Enterprise Security to maintain regulatory compliance (PCI and SOX) with network infrastructure components through vulnerability remediation, upgrades, configuration hardening and participate in recurring audits.
• Work with Corporate IT to manage integrated network components including VPN tunnels and remote access, branch office switching and routing, VOIP service, providing assistance where needed
• Manage relationships with Internet service providers including review recurring billing/invoicing, new orders, or changing circuit proposals.
• Work with the systems engineers to build new infrastructure, troubleshoot systems performance problems, network packet capture, tracing and analysis, load balancer support
• Architectural responsibilities for new technology and infrastructure to support new product development and corporate goals. 
• SME for network design and architecture to support development innovation, security initiatives, and payments infrastructure upgrades
• Participates in on-call rotations to provide network engineering support 
• Works with the team of network engineers on ticket request handling to ensure standards are adhered to and service quality is maintained.

• Network certifications with Cisco and/or Juniper Networks (CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent preferred)
• Certifications for the following are highly desired (in order of preference)
• Datacenter networking – Cisco Nexus and/or ACI, Juniper, MDS Storage Fabric
• Enterprise Firewalls – Palo Alto Networks, Juniper
• Load balancers – A10, F5
• Minimum of two completed years of higher education and/or trade school with a focus on IT, or 5 years of comparable work experience.
• At least 5 years of experience with enterprise/datacenter load balancers, enterprise firewalls, corporate WiFi and WAN optimization solutions
• Excellent IP networking fundamentals and extensive experience in the application of IP protocols
• In-depth understanding of network design and security. 
• Excellent communication, organization and project management skills
• Network engineering experience in payments or banking industry preferred with focus on supporting network infrastructure in SOX, PCI or other regulated environment a plus