Network Engineer

Network Engineer

Responsibilities:

• Design, deploy and support WAN/LAN infrastructure including but not limited to routers, switches, firewalls, spam filters, load balancers, VPN, SAN and NAS devices.
• Manages daily critical network functionality including by not limited to: Network performance, server performance, internet usage, mail usage, security violations, backups, server and desktop OS updates, virus protection, spam filtering, adware, and software licensing violations.
• Install, support, maintain hardware and software infrastructure according to best practices
• Provides network and host-based security, incident response, firewall and VPN management and administration.
• Troubleshoot reported problems, perform root cause analysis, recommend, and execute preventative measures.
• Adheres to change management procedures in defining, planning, and implementing change in such a way that ensures appropriate coordination with other teams, minimizes service disruption, and ensures adherence to Service Level Agreements.
• Provides direction for standards and procedures for monitoring, capacity planning, tuning, maintenance, performance optimization, backups, and recovery; ensures infrastructure will meet capacity requirements to deliver projects on time.
• Performs hardware and software installations as needed.
• Design, deploy and implement network systems integrations for newly acquired offices company wide.
• Remains current on emerging technologies via professional groups, trade magazines, internal or external training, independent research and study, and other avenues available.
• Ensures complete communication to the IT Support Desk on the status of all problems assigned to him/her according to existing procedures.
• Ability to provide on-call support twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
• Escalation contact for network, server and infrastructure related issues
• Perform system audits & present results with action items to Network Operations Manager
• Documentation of network, infrastructure, and telecommunication systems
• All other tasks requested by management.

Experience:

• 5 + years experience of Networking experience LAN/WAN/WLAN
• 5 + years working with Windows systems.
• Understanding and implementation of network traffic analysis, remote access methods & systems, state full inspection firewalls, encryption, authentication, authorization technology
• Extensive experience with Fortinet EMS suite and Forticloud
• Experience deploying Fortiextenders and access points.
• Understanding and implementation of cloud-based environments.
• Extensive experience with Fortinet and Cisco equipment
• CCNA or NSE certifications a plus
• Network optimization

Mid-Level Job Type: Direct Hire Job Location: Southfield