Lead Network Security Engineer

W2 ONLY. NO C2C/ CORP-CORP / 1099 CANDIDATES.

2 year contract.

Client: A major global financial services network enabling advances in the payments ecosystem by leveraging technologies to create a stronger digital economy. Annual gross revenue earnings at $25B and employ over 30,000.

Overview:

Seeking a Lead Network Engineer who will be responsible for the design, architecture, implementation, security and support of large multi-site, multi-vendor network communication environments.

Role:

• Manage network projects.
• Develop detailed requirements for upgrading existing corporate and Client networks, as well as re-architecting network segments in order to facilitate new requirements, technologies and growth.
• Resolve network communications and operations problems impacting customer or backbone access and performance globally.
• Participate in telecommunications-related initiatives.
• Research and develop innovative solutions around unified network solutions.
• Support assigned regional projects, which include responsibility for planning, time and cost control, resource utilization and implementation.
• Provide strategic technical direction on highly complex network systems project or activities involving the selection and recommendation of design approach and systems software technology.

Qualifications:

• Ability to be employed with TechnoSmarts as a W2 employee.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Math, or Engineering or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• 7 – 10+ years of overall IT experience in networking, LAN/WAN, firewalls, wireless, security and encryption technologies.
• Strong background in network security.
• Experience with TCP/IP protocol communications.
• Knowledge of Cisco’s and Arista product portfolio.
• Firewall experience with Palo Alto.
• F5 load balancer experience.
• Knowledge of network diagnostics, BGP, SNMP, VPN, SSH, MPLS technologies.
• SASE experience such as Prisma Access or Netscaler is a plus.
• Citrix experience.
• Some project management experience.
• Knowledge of project management methodology and best practices.