Sr Network Engineer

About the role

Pacific Life is investing in its global network and security to support its digital transformation journey. As such, we are searching for a Network Engineer to join a small team to help us transform our network and to protect our customers and brand. This engineer will design, implement, maintain, and support our growing network infrastructure. This person will also collaborate with our corporate security team to design and build security controls to protect our environment. The successful candidate will have served in a similar role in a Fortune 500 environment and will have significant experience in supporting global networks.

How You'll Help Move Us Forward

• Implement products, platforms, software, hardware, or appliance-based solutions related to network and network security.
• Interface with management and vendors to develop and implement new solutions to meet business requirements.
• Design and manage the rollout of various network infrastructures with necessary capacity planning, performance tuning, and configuration optimization.
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations.
• Maintain network security across the global enterprise; analyze networks for security threats. Monitor organization's networks for security breaches and investigates violations when they occur.
• Use network tools for administration, maintenance, automation, and visualization reporting.
• Develops technical documentation describing the deployment, configuration, and management of network infrastructure.
• Participates in IT security audits. Responds to existing audits and ensures required controls are implemented as required.
• Builds strong relationships outside of IT to understand business needs. Communicates complex details in a way that people can understand. Advocates for the end user and stakeholder by becoming associated with the products, empathizing with and understanding user needs.

Qualifications

• Must have a minimum of 7 years of experience in IT, configuring and installing various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS).
• Candidate must have advanced technical skills and experience with the following L2 and L3 protocols and technologies such as IPSec, DMVPN, BGP, OSPF, VPC, QoS, 802.1x. Be familiar with Cisco IOS, IOS-XE and NXOS.
• Candidate must be familiar with various platforms – NetScaler, F5, Riverbed, Palo Alto, Cisco (Catalyst, ISR, ASR, Nexus, ASA/FTD). Cisco ACI is a plus.
• Must have an understanding of open-source and other tools to assist in monitoring, troubleshooting and performance analysis.
• Must have excellent communication and problem-solving skills, attention to detail.
• One or more of the following certifications: Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCIE.
• Flexible schedule, including the ability to work nights and weekends.
• B.S/MS in Engineering and/or Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Pay

Newport Beach, CA: $135,000 - $165,000
Omaha, NE: $116,000 - $141,000

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