DatamanUSA is looking for a Network Administrator for our direct client based in CA. This is a great opportunity for someone who is a quick learner with excellent people skills.
Job Details:
Job Title: Network Administrator
Location: Orange, CA
Contract: 6 months
Job Responsibilities:
) Participates in a mission-driven culture of high-quality performance, with a member focus on customer service, consistency, dignity, and accountability.
) Provides network escalation support to other Information Technology Services (ITS) teams.
) Works closely with and advises Information Security on vulnerabilities and threats by identifying, analyzing, and resolving infrastructure vulnerabilities.
) Performs administration duties for on-prem and cloud-based network systems and services in collaboration with team members, architects, and leadership in accordance with best practices and strategic direction.
) Manages medium to large-sized projects.
) Plans, develops, tests, and implements new projects.
) Upgrades, installs, and configures network systems and associated equipment.
) Responds to, updates, and closes complex service desk tickets generated by internal business partners.
) Monitors network/system performance by identifying system and network events and security and environmental alarms.
) Develop documentation for new and existing systems.
) Assists the team in carrying out department responsibilities and collaborates with others to support short- and long-term goals/priorities for the department.
) Guides and assists junior staff in skills development.
) Completes other projects and duties as assigned
Basic Qualifications:
) Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information technology or related field required.
) 6 years of experience working with Extreme Networks or similar products required.
) 6 years of experience working with Palo Alto Networks required.
) An equivalent combination of education and experience sufficient to successfully perform the essential duties of the position such as those listed above may also be qualifying
Preferred Qualifications:
) Cloud-based certification in Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Google Cloud Platform (Google Cloud Platform).
) Network vendor certifications for Extreme, Palo Alto, or F5.
) Experience in multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, or collocation environments.
) Experience with Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Foundations or relevant best-practice frameworks.
) 6 years of experience working with Microsoft Azure Government Community Cloud (GCC) and/or Commercial Cloud.
) 6 years of experience working with Palo Alto's next-generation firewall (NGFW), a virtual private network (VPN), software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN) or Cortex.
) 6 years of experience working with F5 local traffic manager (LTM).
) 6 years of experience working with Zscaler secure web proxies, and Pulse VPNs with an emphasis on remote workforce.
) 6 years of experience working with RSA, YubiKey, Azure Active Directory Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA).