Huntington Bank

Columbus OH- hybrid work onsite 3 days a week

PREFER LOCAL TO COLUMBUS OH TO APPLY

Needed ASAP

3 month Contract to hire PERM

MUST WORK ON W2 (no C2C)

Lead Network Engineer Palo Alto and NAC- Cisco Client

Description:

Must Have

• 5 years of experience supporting end to end network technologies such as routers, switches, VPN appliances, firewalls, load Balancers, DNS appliances, and wireless devices. Knowledge of network programmability using API's, Python scripts and/or Ansible. Experience with network security technologies like Palo Alto firewalls and NAC (Cisco Client) Software Defined Networking experience (SD-WAN, DNAC, NDO, ACI) Experience with UNIX/Linux. In-depth experience with dynamic routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF. Advanced understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design, Advanced understanding of performance and monitoring via SNMP, API, SIEM (Splunk) Proficient in more than one specific infrastructure technology Advanced understanding of best practices and HNB policies Advanced troubleshooting skills

The OS Platform Engineer (Network Operations) develops the operational vision and direction for the team in collaboration with the Network Operations managers.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Makes decisions of a global, strategic nature by analyzing complex data systems and incorporating knowledge of other lines of
• Spearheads complex programs that span multiple inter-organizational units and interfaces with more experienced
• Is a leader in identifying critical, high pay-off technology strategies and prioritizes team efforts accordingly.
• Possesses advanced knowledge of business application and
• Responsible for coaching and mentoring less experienced team members.
• Provide Level 3/4 engineering support for the corporate enterprise network.
• Maintains current professional and technical skills.
• Keeps abreast of current and emerging technologies, how they integrate and drive value for Huntington.
• Performs advanced break/fix troubleshooting and mentors junior engineers.
• Provides failure or root cause analysis when required.
• Resolves the most complex issues in the environment with little to no supervision, relying on his/her ability to pull together technical resources to gather accurate information to provide data driven solutions.
• Provide after hours and on-call support as needed.
• Understand network triggers and execute appropriate workflows.
• Demonstrated ability to engineer reliability through automated response.
• Supports the development and improvement of technical engineering documentation in accordance with Huntington standards.
• Author operational documentation and knowledge base articles of known issues and solutions.
• Experience automating workflows to troubleshoot, integrate systems, and eliminate toil.
• Knowledge and experience with core network automation skills: Python, JSON, Linux, Java, DevOps, and Git.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree
• 10 years of relevant experience
• Critical thinking skills, must be a self-starter, able to direct activities of the team, dependable and reliable.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive infrastructure, applications and security knowledge and experience
• Must own ability to learn fast, adapt to new technology and keep current with industry
• Embrace and focus on emerging technology and evangelize to the rest of the team
• Experience with cloud technologies such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud
• Experience in AWS CloudFormation, AWS EC2, VPC, S3 and similar technologies a strong plus
• Experience with database technologies and other data services technologies
• Experience with any programming language: C, C , Java, Python or C#.
• Experience supporting complex production network environments.
• Experience with Cisco and Palo Alto Firewalls, Proxies, F5 LTM/GTM/ASM, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI/MSO), Cisco Identity Services Engine (Client), Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco DNAC and Infoblox DNS/DHCP.
• In-depth experience with dynamic routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
• Advanced understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design
• Advanced understanding of performance and monitoring
• Proficient in more than one specific infrastructure technology
• Technical certifications such as Cisco CCNP-Enterprise or Datacenter, CCIE, Palo Alto PCCSA, PCNS, PCNSE, or F5.
• Excellent communications skills (written and verbal) and ability to work both independently and in a group.
• Experience in an enterprise environment and previous banking/financial industry experience is a plus.
• An outcome obsessed engineer with a focus on reliability. Drive decisions through data and base them on business outcomes: MTTR, MTBF, Business Delivery.

• Experience with coding/scripting/automation/orchestration platforms(Python, Ansible), including interfacing with APIs
• Experience writing Ansible Playbooks in YAML
• Experience in Network monitoring tools (i.e., NetFlow Tracker, Elastic, and Splunk) is a plus
• Experience in Software Defined Network is a plus

Remarks:

Nice To Have
Experience working in an Agile/KanBan team aligned to ITIL practices. Knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure (nice to have) Experience in an enterprise environment and previous banking/financial industry experience is a plus.