Designs, builds, implements, and manages wired, wireless, WAN and cloud network systems across the many enterprise campuses hosting hundreds of users.
Plans, develops, installs, configures, maintains, supports, and optimizes all local, data/voice, and wide area networks, connections, associated software, hardware, and communication links.
Troubleshoots network performance issues, analyzes network traffic, and provides capacity planning solutions to ensure optimal and redundant network performance.
Develops processes around network procedures, ensuring industry best practices are followed and documented.
Oversees network management, security, planning, traffic engineering and implementation. This includes firewalls upgrades and updates, VPN deployments, Disaster Recovery testing, etc.
Assists in managing Managed Service Providers/Carriers and provide oversight for service level agreement adherence.
Develops mitigation plans for technical issues and coordinates them with other departments and/or partner organizations to ensure network connectivity can quickly be recovered or redirected in the event of a major outage.
Creates and maintains documentation including creation of physical and logical network topology diagrams, detailed port connectivity spreadsheets and assigned IP address (public and private) documentation.
Prepares periodic maintenance plans and comply with change management procedures.
Provides second level support to our customer base and interface with vendor support groups to ensure proper escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance.
Candidate should be able to plan and organize multiple assignments to meet deadlines; communicate clearly both orally and in writing; work cooperatively and productively as a team member.
Experience
Next Gen Firewalls, specifically Palo Alto Firewalls: PA3020, PA3220, PA1410
Palo Alto Global Protect VPN/tunneling configuration.
Cisco switches: 2960, 3850, 9000 Catalyst series and Nexus 9300 - VMware (6.x, 7.x, 8.x) - Routing protocols and troubleshooting of OSPF, IGRP, BGP, EGP and EIGRP
Disaster Recovery implementation - Subnetting/Vlan spanning to multiple sites.
DHCP and Radius setup - PRTG monitoring and syslog
Education
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a computer related field.
Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Engineer (PCNSE) or any similar certification is desired.
Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is desired
Job Location
On-site (primary locations is Pomona, CA)