Network Engineer III

Advantage Tech is looking for a Network Engineer III for our client in Lenexa Kansas. Individuals within the IT Network Engineer role are responsible for the operations of secure and highly available networking platforms. They install, maintain, upgrade, and continuously improve our operating environment. They maintain the ongoing reliability, performance, and support of the infrastructure. This includes monitoring the operating environments, responding to incidents and problems, and planning for growth. Individuals in this job family are also responsible for the overall operation and maintenance of the data center (on premise and cloud) and WAN networks.

Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Creates technology designs and solutions in response to business needs that enable us to maximize our IT investments and ensure a cost-effective and secure approach is followed. Designs, maintains and supports networks for business applications and SCADA environments. Creates and maintains accurate network diagrams for documentation, design and planning.
• In an individual capacity, regularly diagnoses and resolves moderately complex security, hardware, software and connectivity problems and occasionally resolves those of a higher complexity (complexity defined by size, technology used, and system feeds and interfaces).
• In both an individual and team capacity, supports multiple systems or applications of moderate complexity with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility. This role will occasionally be tasked with working with systems of higher complexity in a team capacity.
• Participates in short and long-term project efforts with stakeholders and IT groups.
• Works in both an individual and team capacity to implement, maintain, administer, support, and monitor both on premise and cloud-based network solutions and security.
• Works in both an individual and team capacity to implement, maintain, administer, support, and monitor virtualization solutions.
  
  

Works as part of a team in the planning and administration of network redundancy, backup, security, VOIP, and disaster recovery; helps establish and meet Divisional availability goals.

• Maintains network security standards, identifies security issues, and occasionally consults on and implements new security solutions.
• Participates in the planning for network recovery for equipment or system failure or disaster situations.
• Participates in capacity planning and performance monitoring and tuning in the LAN/WAN/Telephony environment. Maintains monitoring of compliance with our standards and procedures for network usage. Monitors and tests system performance; prepares and delivers system performance statistics and reports.
• Participates in project teams to evaluate and recommend new network, communications, computing, security and related solutions.
• Works in a team environment to monitor, support and maintain integration of voice, data, security and telecommunication systems.
• Performs network and security audits, network health monitoring, and other recovery processes in accordance with the company’s disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Coordinates and performs maintenance and/or updates to network systems.
• Manages and supports networking equipment, software, appliances operating systems and associated products from various 3rd party vendors.
• Participates in cyber security planning and incident response.
  
  

Other Duties

• Provides technical and backup support for other IT staff members.
• Participates in on-call duties 24/7, and planned or un-planned weekend/evening work.
• Perform other duties as assigned.
  
  

Required Education, Skills And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Computer Engineering Technology, Network Communications Management or similar course focus plus:
• 8 years’ of hands-on experience in the technical operation of a multi-site Enterprise LAN/WAN environment including security administration and leveraging network management/monitoring tools.
• 8 years’ of hands-on experience in the technical operation and design of enterprise class firewall products
  
  

Note: An equivalent combination of education, professional certification, and experience may be considered

• Knowledge of PC applications management systems and communications to include VPN applications.
• Strong working knowledge of current LAN/WAN technologies and possess strong Cisco switch, router and firewall configuration and administration skills.
• Experience with Next Generation Enterprise Firewalls
• Experience exercising strong technical trouble shooting skills in a Cisco network and telephony environment.
• Must have good customer service and customer interaction skills.
• Must be well organized, creative, and detail oriented.
• Must be assertive, flexible, demonstrate initiative and sound judgment.
• Must interface well with technical IT departmental and non-technical user department personnel.
• Possess good communication skills and be able to effectively communicate verbally and in writing to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Must have excellent decision-making skills.
• Ability to maintain confidentiality for all user materials.
• Must pass pre employment drug screening and backround verification.
  
  

Preferred Education, Skills And Experience

• Working knowledge of cybersecurity standards such as NIST, ISA, and NERC.
• Hands-on experience with cloud networking
• Cisco or Palo training in the last 3 years or a current certificate.
• Web application Firewall (WAF) knowledge.
• Zero trust and micro segmentation experience.
  
  

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