Network Engineer

Hybrid Role - 3 days a week on site in Branchburg NJ

Position is more of Infrastructure and/or Network Security Engineer.

-The work is split between 80% Lab and 20% Production support.

-The lab work might involve installation and deinstallation of network equipment, testing, or documenting environments.

-The production work might involve creating configurations based on the lab testing, and ensuring the configuration is successfully deployed.

Minimum Skills and Experience:

-Excellent understanding of network architectures including the roles of routers, switches, firewall, and application delivery controllers.

-Excellent network analysis fundamentals and robust troubleshooting skills, especially L1/2/3 troubleshooting skills. 3-5 years of advanced configuration & system administration experience with Juniper SRX and F5 firewalls, or similar.

-3-5 years of experience with configuring basic routing and switching, preferable using Nokia but Juniper & Cisco is also acceptable.

-1-3 years of experience with installation and deinstallation of network equipment (firewalls, switches etc)

-Strong project management & organizational skills, strong interpersonal and communications skills (written and oral), and the ability to multitask.

-Significant experience with element management, network management tools, alarming, reporting, and network operations.

-Experience with: virtualization, network management, network security, firewalls, cache servers, proxies, WAN optimizers, web servers and Linux

-Experience with SNMP and SNMP based SIEM and NMS systems

-Needs to be able to lift 20 to 50 pounds

Additional Experience:

-Experience with Keysight/Ixia BreakingPoint traffic simulators.

- Experience with scripting and automation

Education: Bachelor of Science in Electrical or Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related.