• Operate and improve LAN, WLAN, WAN, Internet, VPN, and hybrid-cloud connectivity, maintaining availability, performance, segmentation, and secure traffic flows.
• Configure and troubleshoot Aruba switches, wireless controllers or gateways, and access points; maintain reliable coverage, capacity, and configuration baselines.
• Administer Cisco Catalyst and Nexus platforms, including IOS XE/NX-OS, VLANs, VRFs, OSPF/BGP, QoS, high availability, secure management, and software upgrades.
• Implement and maintain Palo Alto firewall policies, zones, NAT, VPN, high availability, logging, and rule reviews, applying approved security controls and change procedures.
• Operate Zscaler ZIA/ZPA services, including secure Internet and private-application access, traffic forwarding, PAC files, inspection, exceptions, and connectivity troubleshooting.
• Configure and troubleshoot Azure VNets, subnets, peering, VPN Gateway, site-to-site and point-to-site VPNs, UDRs, BGP, DNS, NSGs, and inspected egress paths.
• Monitor service health, security events, anomalous traffic, capacity, configuration drift, and ISP resilience. Improve telemetry, SIEM integration, alert quality, and escalation.
• Own complex network and security incident investigation and restoration, coordinating containment and recovery with Cybersecurity, the SOC, cloud teams, and service providers. Complete root-cause analysis and permanent corrective actions.
• Execute vulnerability remediation, configuration hardening, patching, and controlled changes with documented testing, rollback plans, and post-change validation.
• Deliver network and security upgrades and migrations; contribute practical design improvements and validate resilience, failover, interoperability, and capacity.
• Maintain network diagrams, inventories, configuration backups, runbooks, and audit evidence. Coordinate cabling, patching, labeling, testing, and as-built documentation to agreed standards.
• Drive vendor and carrier technical escalations against SLAs; track support, licensing, warranty, and renewal requirements and provide technical input to procurement.
• Share troubleshooting methods, review implementation changes, and mentor engineers. Track availability, incident restoration, recurrence, remediation, and delivery outcomes.
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Qualifications:

What We’re Looking For

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, or a related field.
• 6+ years of enterprise networking or network-security experience, including hands-on responsibility for complex production operations and incident resolution.
• Strong hands-on experience with Aruba switching and wireless, Cisco Catalyst/Nexus routing and switching, and Palo Alto firewalls, including routing protocols, segmentation, policy, NAT, VPN, and high availability.
• Practical experience operating Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, SASE and Zero Trust access controls, proxy forwarding, PAC files, inspection, and exception handling.
• Experience with Azure networking and hybrid connectivity, including VNets, peering, VPN Gateway, routing, UDRs/BGP, NSGs, and network segregation.
• Strong TCP/IP, DNS/DHCP, network access control, and troubleshooting fundamentals; ability to diagnose issues across network, firewall, proxy, cloud, and identity boundaries.
• Experience with monitoring and SIEM integration, secure configurations, vulnerability remediation, incident and problem management, controlled changes, and vendor SLA escalations.
• Clear technical communication, sound operational judgment, disciplined documentation, and the ability to coordinate changes and incidents across technical teams.
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