Overview

ecosystems across the world. As the leader in commerce-enabling technology, Shift4 powers

billions of transactions annually for hundreds of thousands of businesses in virtually every

industry. For more information, visit www.shift4.com.

Responsibilities

The Network Engineer I will work with a team of network professionals to ensure the

continuous operations of the payments network infrastructure that supports many

merchants across several sites in a stable, secure and scalable fashion.

• Manage the payments network infrastructure including network switches, routers, load balancers, firewalls and the management platforms for those systems.
• Keep the performance of the payments network optimal and secure, perform upgrades and patching, monitor relevant network thresholds, capacity and latency, adjust configurations to optimize traffic flow.
• Work with Enterprise Security to maintain regulatory compliance (PCI and SOX) with network infrastructure components through vulnerability remediation, upgrades, configuration hardening and recurring audits
• Manage and maintain secure datacenter and corporate office firewalls and wireless access points
• Work with Corporate IT to manage integrated network components including VPN tunnels and remote access, branch office switching and routing, VOIP service, providing assistance where needed
• Manage relationships with Internet service providers, review recurring billing/invoicing, new or change circuit proposals.
• Work with the systems engineers to build new infrastructure, troubleshoot systems
• Participates in compliance and security reviews and remediation, including internal and external audits
• Participates in on-call rotations to provide network engineering support
• Shares workloads of network engineers, including ticket request handling, to ensure standards are adhered to and service quality is maintained.
• The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed. 

Qualifications: Network certifications with Cisco and/or Juniper Networks (CCNA, or equivalent preferred)

• Datacenter networking – Cisco Nexus and/or ACI, MDS Storage Fabric
• Enterprise Firewalls – Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, Fortinet
• Load balancers – A10, F5, Netscaler
• PBX - Avaya
• Network Access Control (NAC) – ForeScout or equivalent
• Virtual Networking - VMWare NSX
• WAN Acceleration is a plus (SilverPeak, Riverbed)
• Wireless – HPE or other business grade wireless

• Minimum of two completed years of higher education and/or trade school with a focus on IT, or two years of comparable work experience.
• At least one year of experience with enterprise/datacenter load balancers, enterprise firewalls, corporate WiFi and WAN optimization solutions
• Mid level understanding of Public Key Infrastructure, packet capture analysis, virtualization and server clustering, Identity and Access Management, network security encryption protocols (ciphers, transports, application layer)
• Excellent communication and organizational skills
• Network engineering experience in payments or banking industry and at least one supporting network infrastructure in PCI scope is a plus
• CompTIA A , NET , Security , or equivalent experience