Information Technology Infrastructure Engineer - Network

• On-site work in Lincoln, Nebraska
• Position kicks off as contract-to-hire
• Position, unfortunately, is NOT open to TPV/Sponsorship/C2C
• Networking & Firewall experience
• Cisco experience
• Palo Alto experience
• Need the experience on the networking side, routers, switches etc. You will be working on campus and will be the support. Troubleshooting routing challenges in the network.

Provides daily ongoing deployment, configuration, support, administration, maintenance and technical solutions to various technology components that make up the IT Infrastructure environment.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• As a member of the Enterprise network team a candidate will be expected to participate in both project related work as well as day to day operational support.
• Provide general support across multiple network environments, including campus, data center, and WAN.
• Provide firewall support to include day to day troubleshooting of connectivity requests and VPN tunnels
• Complete after hours changes as needed
• Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation.
• Willingness to work on site to support Campus network environments.
• Work with multiple customers, stakeholders, and system owners to produce requirements, determine feasibility, analyze cost/benefits requirements, and recommend design solution options.
• Provide training and technical support for users with varying levels of IT knowledge.

EXPERIENCE:

This position is for someone with 5-7 years of network and security experience working a variety of network areas, to include the following disciplines: routing/switching, data center, wireless, security, VPN, collaboration, virtualization, disaster recovery/high availability, acceleration technologies, and cloud provider/services.

COMPETENCIES – SKILLS/KNOWLEDGE/ABILITIES:

• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to work well within a team
• Ability to work well with technical and non-technical clients.
• Familiar with NIST standards and controls.

Intermediate system and programming knowledge of:

• Cisco ISR and ASR Routers
• Cisco Catalyst and Nexus Switches
• Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto)
• Campus Network Design
• Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and Access Points
• NAC/Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• Network Load Balancing (F5)
• SD Wan Technologies
• Routing Protocols: BGP / OSPF / EIGRP
• First Hop Redundancy Protocols: HSRP / VRRP / GLBP
• VRF implementation and design
• VSS and VPC technologies
• MPLS WAN infrastructure
• IPSEC VPN Tunnel design, implementation, and support
• User VPN (Palo Alto Global Protect)
• IPS, IDS, SSL Decryption, and URL Filtering
• Enterprise QOS
• IPv4 and IPv6 addressing
• Scripting and Network Automation (Python, VBscript, Powershell)
• Experience in maintaining network monitoring systems
• Experience in taking and reading network packet captures
• Familiarity with AWS infrastructure (VPC's, Security Groups, Direct Connect)
• Familiarity with supporting multi-cloud environments (Azure, GPC, etc)

EDUCATION:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science or related field and/or equivalent combination of education and experience. Cisco CCNA or equivalent experience desired