Network Engineer - Palo Alto, Cisco Switches, Infoblox, Riverbed

Description

We are looking for a highly skilled Network Engineer with expertise in Palo Alto, Cisco switches, Infoblox, and Riverbed technologies to join our team across Southeast Asia. The right candidate will bring deep experience in designing, implementing, and supporting network infrastructure, with a strong focus on delivering top-tier performance and security.

The Network Engineer serves as a technical resource in Data Communications, responsible for the effective and efficient implementation and ongoing maintenance of related technologies. This position supports the definition, design, and delivery of network communications and solutions and may occasionally mentor less experienced team members. The engineer coordinates work with other system areas and external vendors, contributing to network system planning, upgrades, monitoring, testing, and servicing.

Responsibilities

• Provides technical support to ensure the continued efficient and reliable operations of related MFS information systems.
• Troubleshoots complex network outages.
• Proactively builds and maintains strong knowledge of MFS information systems and their associated components, and makes recommendations to improve reliability, scalability, performance, or security as appropriate.
• Uses technology to automate manual tasks and seeks opportunities to improve efficiency wherever practicable and appropriate.
• Recommends process improvements.
• Assists with developing, enforcing, and maintaining MFS Information Security controls, procedures, and standards.
• Receives broad goals and overall objectives from Management and helps define and implement methods to achieve them.
• Owns delivery of assigned project objectives, including timelines and budget. Works on projects and provides innovative solution recommendations. · Serves as a technical mentor to other team members.
• Collaborates with other IT and business groups, sharing information readily.

REQUIRED SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a related technical field
• 5-6+ years of related Information Technology experience, with a combined focus on one or more of the following:
• LAN/WAN and remote office operations, comprehensive experience with Cisco routers/switches, network management platforms, network load balancing platforms, network patching and network cross-connect best practices and inventory control, designing and building large data center networks.
• Experience mitigating network security issues and partnering with other technical teams on security-related efforts
• Strong technical knowledge in several of the following disciplines: Network Firewall technology, preferably Palo Alto, Network IDS/IPS Security technology, MS Active Directory, TCP/IP and DNS/DHCP, Infoblox a plus
• SASE networks and mobile end user support o Interface with Global carriers to implement data solutions o Cisco routing/switching, (NXOS, IOS) and protocols: (BGP, IPSEC, SMTP, SNMP and OSPF)
• VoIP operations, WAN operations experience, and Wireless networking experience
• QoS & MPLS technologies o Cloud Implementation
• Wireless network implementation/engineering/support – Aruba a plus
• Proven ability to interact, communicate, build relationships, and negotiate effectively with team members and senior management when addressing technical challenges.
• Strong problem-solving skills; ability to work effectively under pressure and in a 24/7 environment.

PREFERRED SKILLS, QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Bachelor's degree or higher

Financial services industry experience a plus, but not necessary

Cisco, Infoblox, Aruba, Riverbed, Palo Alto certifications