Senior Network/Security Engineer

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.
• Aid in the initial staging of projects, including verifying received hardware inventory and performing 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.
• Must 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.

Pre-Sales/Consulting Responsibilities

• Develop, position, and present technology solutions in support of the sales team, including participation in face-to-face meetings and conference calls.
• Design and document end-to-end network and security solutions based on client business and technical requirements.
• Provide technology demonstrations and lead whiteboarding sessions.
• Work with the presales team to generate Bills of Material (BOMs) and Statements of Work (SOWs) for proposed solutions.

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Professional and soft skills, including excellent written and verbal communication, clear and timely communication, ability to break down technical concepts into business terms, strong critical thinking and judgment, excellent customer relationship management, highly organized, detail-oriented, proactive problem identification and resolution, proficiency in MS Office.
• 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.).