Senior Network Specialist

The Senior Network Specialist supports, and may lead when appropriate, tasks associated with the design, build, implementation, and administration of the network. This includes analyzing and monitoring network performance, providing network support, troubleshooting network related issues through resolution, performing system maintenance tasks, and optimizing all local and wide area network connections. This also includes installing, upgrading, and maintaining network equipment such as routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, wireless, and other network devices in accordance with established standards.

The Senior Network Specialist works with various IT and business departments, regarding the integration, maintenance, network services issue resolution, maintains relevant documentation, and procurement requirements as directed.

• Supports, and may lead when appropriate, tasks associated with the planning implementation, improvement, modification, and replacement of network infrastructure components.
• Works with IT management and/or business leaders to implement network activities within timeframes defined.
• Conducts research on network products, services, protocols, and standards in support of network procurement and development efforts
• Monitors and analyzes network performance across the organization's LANs, WANs, and wireless networks, including capacity planning to identify, recommend and remedy current and future performance bottlenecks.
• Supports, and may lead when appropriate, tasks associated with the stable operation and efficient performance of the company networks
• Identifies, recommends, and remedies network performance issues as instructed
• Installs, configures and updates network equipment, including but not limited to firewalls, routers, switches, wireless access points, cabling
• Conducts network infrastructure security baseline configurations, and supports network penetration testing
• Supports and maintains security risk assessments, identifies and notifies IT management of security vulnerabilities recommends security controls, documents findings and implements remediation plans.
• Enforces IT security policies, standards & practices
• Participates in incident response plans to respond and recover from security incidents.
• Excellent written / oral communication and presentation skills with the ability to present complex network and security issues to a variety of audiences.

• Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, information security or related field and/or 7+ years equivalent work experience.
• One or more of the following certifications preferred: , Cisco CCNA or CCNP, CompTIA Network+, Fortinet NSE, Darktrace Cyber Engineer or Cyber Analyst
• Extensive experience in Fortinet technology administration.
• Extensive experience in Azure Networking.
• Extensive experience in network procedural document creation and documentation of network changes
• Experience in Cisco technology administration.
• Experience in VPN solutions
• Experience in Merge & Acquisition projects

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