Network Engineer | ONSITE
Apply NowCompany: Efficus, Inc.
Location: Dallas, TX 75217
Description:
Work Location: ONSITE - Dallas, TX
Responsibilities:
Required:
Preferred:
Responsibilities:
- Install, configure, and manage a highly available and scalable datacenter and cloud networks.
- Design, implement, and maintain robust firewall infrastructure to protect the organization from external and internal threats.
- Monitor firewall performance and manage configuration changes to ensure the security and stability of the network.
- EOSL projects for datacenter switches and firewalls.
- Configure and manage Azure networking components such as Virtual Network, Load Balancer, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, and NSG.
- Manage and configure firewalls (e.g., Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet) for optimal performance and security.
- Transforms the organization by leveraging and enabling automation, orchestration, continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD).
- Serves as an advocate for business stakeholders into IT and helps evangelize the role of network engineering technology back to the business
- Presents innovate forward thinking concepts and technology to improve business processes
- Contributes to our positive, team-oriented culture by developing and maintaining cooperative relationships, facilitating the resolution of conflicts, and accepting and providing constructive feedback
Required:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- 5 years of experience in a highly technical professional environment
- 5 years of experience in a Network environment working with route switch, firewalls, VPN, IDS/IPS
- 2+ years of experience in Microsoft Azure or AWS/Oracle/IBM networking technologies.
- Senior Level experience with Data Center infrastructure solutions: VPN, Cisco (Route and Switch), Palo Alto firewalls.
Preferred:
- Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Technology, Information Systems (CIS/MIS), Engineering or related technical discipline, or equivalent experience/training
- Airline Industry experience
- CCNP - Security, DC, Routing, Switching, CCIE, PCNSE (Palo Alto) Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate or Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert is desired.
- Proven ability to build, cultivate, and promote strong relationships with internal customers at all levels of the organization, as well as with IT counterparts, business partners, and external groups.
- Ability to deploy and execute datacenter and cloud network technologies; firewall technologies, intrusion detection/prevention, micro-segmentation, and software defined network, and software defined WAN.
- Hands on experience with Palo Alto firewalls and Nexus switches.
- Hands on experience in Cloud Networking for Azure and AWS.
- Extensive experience with Data Center infrastructure solutions: Cisco (Route and Switch), Palo Alto (FW + IDS/IPS functions), Cisco VPN and Zscaler VPN
- Extensive experience with programming/scripting languages and frameworks in support of automation, such as Python or Ansible
- Ability to design Ansible networking playbooks (and/or via Python scripts, REST API) for Palo Alto, Zsclaer, Cisco IOS/IOS-XE/NX-OS
- Have good hands-on knowledge on Panorama and its template hierarchy.
- Have a comprehensive knowledge on routing protocol BGP (community strings, route maps, route filters. attributes).
- Strong experience in building site to site VPN tunnels for both Cisco and Palo Alto's platform.
- Strong communication skills and ability to work with business to deliver project timelines.
- Good with tools like Power BI or be able to create dashboards for projects.
- Good in IAC for Cloud and Datacenter deployments