Network Engineer - Palo Alto, Cisco Switches, Infoblox, Riverbed

Description

We are seeking a skilled Network Engineer with expertise in Palo Alto, Cisco switches, Infoblox, and Riverbed technologies to join our dynamic team in Southeast Asia. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience designing, implementing, and maintaining network infrastructure while ensuring optimal performance and security.

The Network Engineer is a technical resource in Data Communications, tasked with the effective and efficient implementation and maintenance of related technologies. This role assists in defining, designing, and implementing network communications and solutions, occasionally guiding less experienced staff members. The engineer coordinates tasks with other system areas and vendors, and contributes to network system planning, upgrading, monitoring, testing and servicing.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support to ensure the ongoing efficient and reliable operations of related MFS information systems.
• Troubleshoots complex network outages.
• Proactively develops and maintains strong knowledge of MFS information systems and their related components, and makes recommendations to improve the reliability, scalability, performance, or security of these systems as appropriate.
• Leverages technology to automate manual tasks and seeks to improve efficiency wherever practicable and appropriate.
• Makes recommendations for process improvements.
• Assist in developing, enforces and maintains MFS Information Security controls, procedures, and standards.
• Receives broad goals and overall objectives from Management and assists in establishing and implementing the methods to attain them.
• Responsible for meeting assigned project objectives including timelines and budget. Works on the projects and provides innovative suggestions for solutions. · Serve as technical mentor to other members of the team.
• Collaborates with other IT and business groups, readily sharing information with others.

 REQUIRED SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related technical field
• 5-6+ years of related Information Technology experience, with combined focus in some of the following:
• LAN/WAN and remote office operations, comprehensive experience with Cisco routers/switches, network management platforms, network load balancing platforms, network patching and network cross-connect best practices and inventory control, designing and building large data center networks.
• Experience in mitigating network security issues to assist in working with other technical teams on security issues
• Strong technical skills and knowledge in several of the following disciplines: Network Firewall technology, preferably Palo Alto, Network IDS/IPS Security technology, MS Active Directory, TCP/IP and DNS/DHCP, Infoblox a plus
• SASE networks and mobile end user support o Interface with Global carriers to implement data solutions o Cisco routing/switching, (NXOS, IOS) and protocols: (BGP, IPSEC, SMTP, SNMP and OSPF)
• VoIP operations, WAN operations experience, and Wireless networking experience
• QoS & MPLS technologies o Cloud Implementation
• Wireless network implementation/engineering/support – Aruba a plus
• Demonstrated ability to interact, communicate, build relationships, and negotiate well with members of team and senior management when responding to technical challenges.
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to work effectively under pressure and in 24/7 environment.

PREFERRED SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree or higher

Financial services industry experience a plus, but not necessary

Cisco, Infoblox, Aruba, Riverbed, Palo Alto certifications