Network Engineer at Insight Global in Alexandria, Virginia

Posted in Other about 14 hours ago.

Type: full-time





Job Description:

Principal Responsibilities:

Networking responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
  • Plan, design, build, deploy and support scalable networks, systems and security strategies
  • Collaborate with Engineers, Administrators and Support Specialist to run, support, secure and monitor on-prem, cloud and remote networks
  • Consult on multiple cross-functional networking projects and applications
  • Ensuring that information systems and assets are monitored to identify networking events and verify the effectiveness of protective measures
  • Ensuring response activities are coordinated with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., external support from service providers)
  • Ensuring activities are performed to prevent expansion of a networking event, mitigate its effects, and resolve the incident
  • Ensuring response processes and procedures are executed and maintained, to ensure response to detected networking incidents
  • Identify, review, evaluate and validate networking standards; technical requirements, gaps and issues, and communicate proposed and custom solutions to existing architecture
  • Additional activities as necessary to support the overall Networking and mission

Operational responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
  • Research, implement and consult on capacity planning models, NexGen and redundancy solutions
  • Create plans and procedures to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve escalated support problems
  • Contribute to Change and Incident Management, problem escalation and work processes
  • Evaluate networks, review and analyze migration strategies, and document codes and scripts
  • Provide recommendations to deploy, migrate and support network monitoring tools
  • Conduct reviews, evaluate and provide recommendations on vendor services
  • Perform research, create documentation and write reports

Security Operations responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
  • Investigate security issues and risks, resolve and report security vulnerabilities to Cyber Security
  • Create and document network / security policies and baselines
  • Recommend and implement appropriate up-to-date security technologies, network segmentation and access control, and End-Point security solutions
  • Assist with planning, developing and reviewing security requirements and procedures
  • Identify security audit discrepancies to implement corrective and preventive measures

Requirements for success:

Experience requirement:
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience working as a systems engineer or administrator
  • Minimum of 4 years' experience working as a network engineer or administrator
  • Minimum of 5 years' networking and security operations experience

Education and/or certification requirement:
  • Cisco CCNP/CCDP, or Fortinet FCP, or equivalent required
  • Certifications equivalent to the Cisco CCIE/CCDE, or Fortinet equivalent, desired
  • Successful completion of Cisco or Fortinet, or its equivalent in routing, switching, and firewall management
  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field such as networking, cybersecurity, information technology, or computer science; equivalent combination of education experience may be considered

Technical skills and abilities:
  • Ability to participate as a technical lead on all projects requiring networking expertise and consultation
  • Ability to design, secure and support multiple inter-connected networks, devices, and profiles
  • Ability to deploy, integrate, configure, and maintain systems which comprise the overall networking technology stack
  • Ability to communicate complex networking concepts in a clear and concise manner for laypersons unfamiliar with networking and/or IT concepts
  • Proficiency to design, implement, and troubleshoot network security policies, VLANs, VoIP, Remote Access VPN, IPSec VPN, 802.1x, RADIUS, TACACS, AAA, TLS, SSL, multifactor authentication, password management and monitoring tools
  • Expertise knowledge and skill to configure and troubleshoot routing protocols (IGP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS), network services (IPv6, IPv4, DHCP, DNS, IPAM, SNMP, PAT, NAT), SD-WAN, multi-casts and MPLS networks
  • Skilled in deploying, managing and troubleshooting Cisco routers, Cisco Nexus switches, Cisco IOS Switches, Cisco Wireless, Cisco ISE, IDS/IPS, Fortinet FortiGate Firewalls, Fortinet FortiWeb Web Application Firewalls, and F5s
  • Ability to design and implement high availability and redundant networks using, QoS, CoS, NTP, HSRP, GLBP, LACP
  • Strong foundational knowledge in IT technologies and concepts not limited to email security technologies, application security, cloud security (IaaS & PaaS, etc.), managed security services provisioning (MSSPs), DNS, Linux, Windows, Mac OS, etc.
  • Good knowledge of Microsoft Windows, Linux, UNIX, MacOS, VMware ESXi, Docker, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Cloud Networking
  • Knowledge of Change / Incident Management (ITIL, ITSM), Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall project management
  • Knowledge of PowerShell/Python/JavaScript, MacOS, malware analysis, vulnerability management, WAF, CIS Benchmarks
  • Ability to use DevOps, Git, Jira, Confluence, automating and ticketing (FreshService) tools
  • Eagerness to develop, grow, and maintain strong inter-team relationships across the business to aid in the accomplishment of the mission

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