Senior Network/Security Engineer
Meridian IT Inc. · Chicago, IL · 2 wk ago
HybridEngineeringFull-time
Duties and Responsibilities
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship to peer engineers, including assisting with project execution and complex problem-solving.
- Manage the entire technical lifecycle (planning to close) for assigned projects.
- Participate in network project planning, budgeting, and execution.
- Must be able to demonstrate effective planning and documentation for all phases of a project.
- Absorb and perform initial equipment setup.
- Install, configure, and troubleshoot network devices such as routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers.
- Provide support to managed service customers within the agreed upon SLAs.
- Execute implementation, configuration, and migration tasks for network, security, and remote access projects, ensuring seamless deployment.
- Perform troubleshooting of complex network infrastructure issues, proposing and implementing effective solutions.
- Abide by standard operating procedures (SOPs) where established for all operational and implementation work.
- Collaborate with other engineers and teams to integrate network infrastructure with IT systems and applications.
Required Skills and Qualifications
- Professional and soft skills, including excellent written and verbal communication, clear and timely communication, strong critical thinking and judgment, excellent customer relationship management, highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive problem identification, and proven ability to handle multiple priorities and interruptions with minimal impact on productivity.
- Proficiency in MS Office (Including Word, Excel, Outlook, Project, PowerPoint, & Visio).
- 10+ years experience as a Network/Security Engineer.
- Juniper/F5 certifications a plus.
- Experiences in services organization a plus.
- Cisco CCNP certification.
- Experience with Cisco ISE, Cisco ACI, Cisco and Aruba wireless technologies.
- Experience with firewall platforms, including Cisco ASA & FTD, Fortigate, and Palo Alto Networks (PCNSE Certification required).
- Ability to obtain and maintain both pre- and post-sales technical certifications from manufacturers (e.g., Cisco, Juniper, HP, etc.).