Network Engineer

Title - Network Engineer
Location- Saint Paul, MN (Need locals Only)
Position- Hybrid
Duration - 2 Years
Strong and recent State experience is mandatory
Same department experience (with any state) is highly preferred.

Job Description
Description of Project

• The Minnesota Department of Information Technology Services (MNIT) partnering with the Minnesota Department of Public Safety (DPS) and Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) is seeking one full-time resource to help support, maintain, and configure network equipment including Cisco switches, Wireless, ASA VPN, Checkpoint firewalls, Palo Alto and F5 load balancers.
Tasks

• Perform network system administration duties as necessary for system availability, maintainability and security.

• Responsible to ensure service tickets or requests to be performed on Cisco VPN, Firepower, IPS and Prime are completed and working with BCA Networking groups when needed.

• Develop, document and apply Cisco ASA, CheckPoint, Palo Alto, Catalyst, 9300 switch configurations for CJIS services.

• Identify routine networking tasks or requests coming to the Networking group and develop processes to allow the Service Desk to submit tickets directly where appropriate.

• Develop, document and support SolarWinds Orion, KIWI Syslog and Savvius configurations.

• Execute unit and integration testing procedures.

• Provide knowledge transfer.

Desired Skills

• Three (3) or more years of network hardware and software technology experience.

• Expert knowledge Cisco hardware switches, VPN and IOS.

• Expert knowledge and skills in TCP/IP.

• Expert knowledge of network test equipment, including Sniffers and other protocol analyzers Savvius OmniPeek.

• Ability to perform advanced technical issue analysis and troubleshooting within a router/switch infrastructure.

• Knowledge of Network Quality of Service (QOS) techniques and network Management systems.

• Strong analytical, oral and written communications, problem solving, and human relations skills.

• Experience with CheckPoint, Palo Alto, 9300, Catalyst series switches and operating system (NX-OS).

• Experience with Software Defined Networking solutions.

• Experience with F5 Big IP (LTM, ASM, AFM, APM).