Junior Network Engineer

Job Description

Role overview

The team supports critical infrastructure for the largest clean energy provider in North America. The role combines deep technical skill, technical leadership, and a understanding of regulatory knowledge (NERC CIP is what they will have to learn).

Responsibilities

· Manage enterprise firewall infrastructure, processing 450+ change requests a year with zero network impact

· Oversee implementation and maintenance of 20,000+ firewall rules supporting NextEra Energy and FPL business operations

· Provide technical leadership across multiple data centers and drive continuous improvement

· Mentor and develop team members

· Design, plan, and deploy network infrastructure, and find and fix potential issues before they affect operations

· Perform complex troubleshooting and root cause analysis with advanced diagnostic tools

· Ensure network operations comply with NERC CIP and other regulatory requirements

· Serve as Lead Firewall Engineer on critical IT-OT network segmentation projects

· Perform quarterly Electronic Security Perimeter (CIP-005) compliance assessments across 120+ network segments and stay audit-ready

· Drive automation of firewall rule management, with zero security violations and zero customer impact

· Handle other job-related duties as assigned

Must-have skills

· Palo Alto firewalls

· Cisco Nexus (NX-OS), Cisco Catalyst, and IOS

· Ability to multi-task projects, with strong interpersonal and analytical skills

Strong preferences

· NERC CIP experience, especially CIP-005 / Electronic Security Perimeter

· Experience with IT-OT segmentation

· Utility, energy, or other regulated critical-infrastructure background

· Firewall automation experience

· Arista switches (plus)

· Prior mentoring or lead experience